More Contamination found - outside Bellways 'confirmed area of landfill contamination'
The planning application for Site B (contaminated landfill) has been under review by the planning dept for over a year. While Bellway add numerous new documents and applications for removal of conditions.
The latest and most unsuprising shows that archeaologists found contamination outside of the 'confirmed area of landfill contamination'.
So Bellway paid a company to investigate the whole site to find the contaminated landfill area. The report produced by the company conducting the investigation is littered with vagueness.
Despite this Bellway advised local residents that "The locations of the archaeological works are outside of the confirmed area of landfill contamination. The trench locations form part of the partially approved condition 7. Bellway want to reassure the community that there will be no impact upon the landfill contamination".
They got that wrong:
Contamination found in 5 trenches outside of the 'confirmed area of landfill contamination'.
How sure can anyone be that they know what is or isn't contaminated?
Nearly all of these 'contaminated trenches' are where the 'drainage system' will run which is meant to be where the squashed out contamination is meant to go to be removed.
Then there is the problem of the contaminated areas which are outside Bellway's confirmed area of contaminated landfill area or rather the now 'unconfirmed area of contaminated landfill'.
Will Redbridge Planning Officers and Environmental Officers be looking into this? no sign of that so far.