Families who took Corby Borough Council to the High Court to prove it negligent during remediation of the town's steel works between 1985 and 1999 have won their battle in the Court.
The 18 families brought the case to prove that birth defects among children born between 1987 and 2000 were caused by teratogens in the dust from clean up works at the 275ha site.
They told the court that the works included stock piling material, hauling it on public or site roads to dispersal points in unsheeted wagons and dumping it at sites including Deene Quarry at the north end of the site.
The site was opened in the 1930s and facilities included four blast furnaces, two coke oven complexes, two by-products plants, two sinter plants and rolling mills.
In 2002 the Council was criticised by the District Auditor over the contract arrangements for the remediation.
