Many areas in Brent have an industrial or commercial past which may have made the land unsuitable for some uses.
Developers and land owners (sometimes including previous land owners), are required to ensure that land is safe for intended use, especially if we have identified it as being potentially contaminated.
If you plan to buy a house on land with an industrial past use, there might be contamination present in the ground.
Our Contaminated Land strategy (.pdf, 1.17MB) outlines how Brent Council deals with contaminated land in the area. It details how we identify and prioritise sites for further investigation, and includes information on clean up (also known as remediation), liability and enforcement.
Contaminated land register
We are required to keep a public register of any regulatory actions we take to clean up contaminated land (as defined under Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990).
The register contains official documents relating to the remediation of contaminated land, including:
- Remediation notices
- Appeals against remediation notices
- Remediation declarations
- Remediation statements
- Appeals against charging notices
- Designation of special sites
- Notification of claimed remediation
- Convictions for offences under Section 78M of the Act
- Guidance issued under Section 78V(1) of the Act
- Other matters prescribed by regulations.
At present there are no entries in the contaminated land public register of Brent Council
The public register does not include details of historic land use and other information used in the identification and investigation of potentially contaminated land, or information on sites that have been remediated through the planning and development control process.