Contaminated Land Search

Discover If Your Land Is Contaminated

When searching for a plot of land, you will always be faced with potential environmental and planning risk liabilities. Throughout the UK, there are thousands of sites that have been contaminated by previous use. Often this is associated with industrial processes or activities that have now ceased, but where waste products or remaining residues present a hazard to the general environment. If you unknowingly purchase a plot of land that has been contaminated, you’ll be taking a risk that you could otherwise have avoided.

If you are looking for a plot for your new home and would like to investigate the potential contamination of the land, then look no further and perform a contaminated land search. You can visit Homecheck.co.uk, the UK’s leading supplier of digital mapping, property and environmental risk data, to obtain vital information when making your land purchasing decision, which in turn will help you discover if the land you are looking at or purchased is contaminated.

Homecheck.co.uk can tell you whether a postcode is affected by contamination or pollution issues, as well as flooding, subsidence and radon – all factors that could affect the value of your property once it’s built.

In more serious cases of contamination, a site might legally be defined as 'contaminated land' as per Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act. Although primary liability to remediate the land lies with the original polluter, if the polluter is untraceable, the cost of remediation could fall to you as the land owner. If this is the case, under the terms of The Act, you would need to ensure that the land is remediated to an acceptable safe standard, suitable for its current or intended end use. This could not only impede on your project but also work out to be very inconvenient and costly.

Homecheck.co.uk works closely with data providers including Ordnance Survey, the Environmental Agency, the Coal Authority and the British Geological Survey to offer current and historical environmental risk management information for self builders like you; providing reassurance that your new plot will not be affected by contamination.

Visit www.Homecheck.co.uk today to find out more and perform a postcode contaminated land search Reports cost £32.00 plus VAT, small costs that help you safeguard your investment and clarify that your purchasing a healthy plot of land.