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Proven domain · 08

Ground conditions & industrial legacy

Data maturity · Moderate

Remediation is the largest single swing factor in brownfield viability, and it is discovered late and expensively. Surfacing it at screening prevents the costliest category of siting error.

Questions a council can answer here

  • Contaminated land

    Which brownfield register sites are within 250 m of historic landfill?

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  • Development management

    Which mine shafts are within 50 m of a brownfield site?

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  • Environmental protection

    Which brownfield register sites are inside a source protection zone?

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What is in the layer

Bedrock and superficial geology, historic landfill, contaminated land, mining legacy and development risk areas, made ground, radon.

Who it is for

Contaminated land, environmental protection and planning teams.

Also: Developers, environmental consultants, insurers, lenders.

Status. Each domain carries its own data, independent of the city assessments. Where a source is wired the map is live; otherwise the layers are specified and the ingest is still to build.

Below the surface

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Ground conditions & contamination UK

What is already in the ground before anyone builds on it: 21,733 closed landfill sites, the permitted waste estate, 11,640 quarries, the mining waste left behind, and the groundwater and drinking water sources underneath.

56,726 sites · 9 categories2,515 boundaries · 54,211 points

Questions a council can answer here

  • Contaminated land

    Which brownfield register sites are within 250 m of historic landfill?

    Try this in Atlas
  • Development management

    Which mine shafts are within 50 m of a brownfield site?

    Try this in Atlas
  • Environmental protection

    Which brownfield register sites are inside a source protection zone?

    Try this in Atlas

Remediation is the largest single swing factor in brownfield viability, and it is discovered late and expensively. Surfacing it at screening prevents the costliest category of siting error.

What is in the layer

Bedrock and superficial geology, historic landfill, contaminated land, mining legacy and development risk areas, made ground, radon.

Who it is for

Contaminated land, environmental protection and planning teams.

Also: Developers, environmental consultants, insurers, lenders.

Core value

Remediation cost, foundation risk

Data maturity

Moderate

Contamination legacy

Soil & groundwater

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