The annual Scotland conference will cover remediation and risk assessment, as well as some of the key regeneration issues for the region. A packed two-day programme will examine the unique challenges and dynamic solutions of the Scottish regeneration and remediation industries.

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Drawing on case studies from both UK and international projects, this highly-popular annual conference looks at new technological innovations and some of the best remediation strategies and solutions being carried out in the industry today.

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Latest News 4/7/2008

• End of TOC derogation means treatment time for remediators
• Storm of protest hits thermal desorption plan
• Llwyneinion – no significant harm
• Northam investigation
• “Eco quarters” call as opposition engulfs eco town plans
• Quicker and less efficient
• Managing director
• Even more homes demanded
• Construction skills get a boost
• Northern Ireland ministry’s new section
• Housing land protocol
• Construction crunch
• Half million hectare restoration
• Newark’s big sediment clean-up
• Directive failure slammed
• Earth Exchange
• Agency Board members go on
• Robert Napier
• Prof Peter Hibberd
• Charlie Falconer
• [Wales] Dolgarrog
• [Wales] Swansea Quadrant
• [North East] Magnesia works
• [Yorkshire & Humberside] Hesley Wood
• [Yorkshire & Humberside] Baths Hall
• [East Midlands] Markham
• [West Midlands] Pottery Site
• [West Midlands] Jaguar site
• [Greater London] Robin Hood sent packing
• [Greater London] Small hill

Latest Issue Highlights

Tales of dirty deeds at an Environmental Law Foundation event last week. Given 57% of cases it deals with are land related, the brownfield industry should sit up and take note...  More...
 

The mysticism of numbers

Ben Kochan finds less reality in Government advisors’ new house building targets  More...
 

Dates for your diary

Events and conferences in November 2007  More...
 

Part 2 A – Law, Policy, Science in perfect disharmony?

One of the EIC’s roles is to look at where environmental policy is not working.  More...
 

Huge variation identified in European risk assessment

Soil value derivation varies widely from one European country to the next, with differences for the same contaminant often more than one order of magnitude.  More...
 

Scotland: Developer wanted

North Lanarkshire Council and Scottish Enterprise are launching a competition to find a developer for the next stage of the proposed business park they want to develop on the 13.7ha former Gartcosh Steel Mill site...  More...
 

Geo-environmental in Lynn

King’s Lynn & West Norfolk Borough Council is seeking a geo-environmental consultant for the proposed Boal’s Quay waterside regeneration project.  More...
 

Ensuring effective and efficient reuse of previously developed land

Paul Syms examines English Partnerships’ approach to physical regeneration  More...
 

Tip’s soil pollution “shocking”

The UN Environment Programme has warned that contamination from one of Africa’s largest waste tips, in Nairobi, is seriously damaging the health of children living nearby.  More...
 

Northern Ireland: Shankhill transit mooted

West Belfast and the Greater Shankhill area could be in line for some kind of rapid transit system according to regional development minister Conor Murphy who held a meeting with West Belfast and Shankhill Enterprise Council chair Padraic White, after a visit to the area.  More...
 

A perspective on the brownfield & remediation market in Europe

The Brownfield and Remediation market is a hot topic right now, not only in UK, but across many parts of Europe.  More...
 

Ogoniland remediation investigated

The UN Environment Programme is to launch a comprehensive assessment of oil-impacted sites in the Ogoni region of Nigeria’s Niger delta following a request from the Nigerian government.  More...
 

North East: Eastgate plans

One North East has announced plans for further consultations on its proposals for the former Lafarge Cement works at Eastgate in upper Weardale where it plans a renewable energy village.  More...
 

West Midlands: Another planet

Newcastle under Lyme Council and Advantage West Midlands have appointed Gazeley UK as preferred developer for a business and logistics park on 12.5ha of the former Chatterley Whitfield Colliery...  More...
 

Greater London: Lewisham reconnected

Lewisham Borough Council has approved the Lewisham Gateway development which will see shops, offices, 800 homes, a cinema, urban park and town square and an extension to Lewisham College.  More...
 

Caveat emptor

October 2007 “Where once wrecking balls were tearing the heart of our great towns and cities, today cranes are building them up again.” Hazel Blears, Core cities summit, 7 November  More...