I would agree with peter on the costs.... we went all the way through to appointing consulting engineers, structural and top surveys before pulling the plug on our remediation in anticipation of the way forward.
My suggestion is:
1. try and persuade the council to put aside some sort of management fund to help run the project.
2. get an outline budget at an early stage.. I suggest a multidisciplinary civils and consulting company... we used capita but there are many more.. the budget and project review cost 3k
3. build in an excellent topographic survey to the project.
4. catalogue everything- talk to a friendly loss adjuster early on.
3. appoint a landscape architect early and get him and the loss adjuster together.
I think all of the above will help you formulate the contract. I would also suggest that it is better if the council pays for this preliminary framework.. as it should help put everything in a box...
Mind you I am a bit of a control freak with these things....
If you want any more info give us a bell
Ps in our case for 25 house the professional survey and setup costs ran into about 30k
Rob Ivens
Scientific Officer
01306 879232
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From: Contaminated Land Management Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Knight
Sent: 11 June 2007 11:14
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Subject: Re: Cost Recovery/Hardship Policies
Dominic
When I worked for Sheffield City Council. We determined 30 properties as
contaminated land on the basis of elevated levels of lead. We went
through the whole process of gathering site specific data etc but given
the v. high levels of lead we ended up remediating the gardens anyway due
to the SPOSH element (even though there was no'actual' evidence of any
harm).
For info I have attached an article that I wrote sometime ago which was
published in the Land Contamination & Reclamation Journal. We did not
make the homeowners contribute to the costs at the time based on one of
the exclusion tests which states if the homeowner couldn't have reasonably
forseen that the property was contaminated when they bought the house.
We actually delayed the remediation of two of the gardens until later due
to accessibility issues etc by which time there had been changes to the
waste regime which actually double the cost of disposing of the soil.
Just as a guiding priciple the cost of remediating the 'average' garden on
this estate was approximately £14,000.
Hope some of the above helps
Peter
Dr. Peter Knight
Senior Scientist
Jacobs
1 Maple Court
Tankersley
S75 3DP
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