Special Sites

As part of the requirements of Part IIA, we are obliged to maintain a public register containing details of special sites. Public registers of land identified as statutorily contaminated are maintained by local authorities, who should be contacted for information on contaminated land other than special sites.

A special site is contaminated land which meets one of the descriptions in the regulations: for example, land on which a process subject to Integrated Pollution Control is, or has been, operated. The Statutory Guidance: Edition 2, as produced by the Scottish Government, gives more information on the designation of special sites.

Special sites do not necessarily represent the most heavily contaminated land: special site designation is the responsibility of local authorities, who are required to seek advice from us.

Once a special site has been designated as such, we become the enforcing authority, but local authorities remain the enforcing authority for all other statutorily contaminated land.

Table of special sites

Site name	Whitelees Road , Lanark
Date of publication to register	Wednesday 2 November 2011
Grid reference	NS 90004 43551
Description	The site is approximately 2.2 hectares in size.
Comments	On 4 October 2011, SEPA received notification from South Lanarkshire Council of the designation of a special site on land the council has identified as contaminated land under Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. On 2 November 2011, SEPA responded to South Lanarkshire Council stating that it agrees with the designation. More information on the location of the site, and the provisions of the regulations by virtue of which the land is designated a special site, are held on the Public Register for Part IIA held by SEPA Registry.

Site name	The Former Oil Refinery, Old Kilpatrick
Date of publication to register	Monday 17 July 2006
Grid reference	NS 470 718
Description	The site is currently vacant/derelict but was formerly a petroleum processing site. It is 16 hectares in size and is jointly regulated by West Dunbartonshire Council and SEPA.
Comments	In November 2004, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) received notification from West Dunbartonshire Council of a designation of a special site on land the Council had previously identified as contaminated land under Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. SEPA was not in full agreement with the designation and in December 2004 the case was referred to the Scottish Executive for determination. On 14 July 2006, the Scottish Executive notified both West Dunbartonshire Council and SEPA that it has decided not to uphold the original special site designation for the whole site, however, part of the site has been determined to be a special site. The designation of the land as a special site therefore takes effect and SEPA is now the enforcing authority for Part IIA at part of the site. More information on the location of the site and the provisions of the regulations by virtue of which the land is designated a special site are held on the Public Register for Part IIA held by SEPA Registry.

Site name	Site of Pelikan Hardcopy Scotland Ltd, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, AB53 4AW
Date of publication to register	Monday 24 October 2005
Grid reference	372830 850450
Description	The site is 4.4 hectares in size and is currently occupied by an operational manufacturing site at which a Part A PPC installation, also regulated by SEPA, operates.
Comments	On 21 October 2005, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) received notification that Aberdeenshire Council had decided to designate as a special site, land the Council had previously identified as contaminated land under Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. SEPA can confirm it has notified the Council that it agrees with the designation. The designation of the land: the site of Pelikan Hardcopy Scotland Ltd, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, as a special site therefore takes effect, and SEPA is now the enforcing authority for Part IIA at the site. More information on the location of the site, and the provisions of the regulations by virtue of which the land is designated a special site, are held on the Public Register for Part IIA held by SEPA Registry.