Phil Crowcroft is a partner at Environmental Resources Management (ERM) with over 30 years experience in dealing with land contamination and brownfield regeneration. He has undertaken many high profile projects dealing with perceived and real threats to health and the environment, and regularly provides expert witness services.
He will be speaking at Brownfield Briefing's Ground Gas 2009 conference on 18 November, so we caught up with him ahead of the event.
1. What do you predict will be major brownfield issues in 2020?
Exposure to VOCs at surprisingly low concentrations
2. If you could choose one regeneration project that you could magically complete right now, which would it be and why?
Crossrail, because London needs through routes, and funding is fragile at the moment
3. What do you think are the three biggest brownfield developments/ achievements from this year?
Olympics
So many companies in our sector surviving the recession
Waste Code of Practice
4. If you could change one piece of legislation/regulation what would it be and why?
Planning legislation, and it would be to bring in the principle of accredited auditors such as SiLC to work alongside the public sector in delivering brownfield regeneration.
