Contaminated land guidance

SEPA Booklet on Water Pollution Arising from land Containing Chemicals (109k)
Interim Guidance on Pollution to the Water Environment (45k)
Planning Guidance Note Pan33
Mobile Plant and Contaminated Land Remediation (35k)
Contaminated land and the requirements of the Groundwater Daughter Directive - interim advice (12k)
Advises on the need to align the requirements of the contaminated land regime with those of the Groundwater Daughter Directive and SEPA’s interim position until this is addressed through the forthcoming Scottish Government review of the Part IIA Statutory Guidance.
WAT-PS-10-01 - Assigning groundwater assessment criteria for pollutant inputs (1.8mb)
This document describes how the prevent and limit requirements of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) should be applied to assess potentially polluting high risk point source inputs to groundwater.
An Introduction to Land Contamination and Development Management (832k)
Many local authorities publish development guides, outlining the particular council’s requirements with respect to how they wish to see land contamination addressed within development proposals. SEPA has been involved with the preparation of a development guide published by a consortium of local authorities. Similar documents may be available from other local authorities not involved in the preparation of this Development Guide. For further information on Land Contamination Development Guides, please contact your relevant Local Authority

SNIFFER Publication - Communicating risk from land contamination

New guidance is now available from SNIFFER entitled “Communicating Risk from Land Contamination”. This guidance was developed in response to the changing land development and communication landscapes since the first SNIFFER guidance was published on this topic in 1999. These changes include development of contaminated land regimes, increased pressure to develop brownfield sites, increased public and stakeholder access to information through the Freedom of Information Act (2000) and the Environmental Information Regulations (2004), and greater demand for improved governance, transparency and accountability in both corporate and governmental decision making.

There are two parts to the guidance: a quick-reference booklet and a more comprehensive guidance manual. The guidance is available to download free of charge from the SNIFFER website. Hard copies will be available for each Local Authority through SEPA and will be sent out when received from SNIFFER.