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Partnership to speed delivery of Generic Assessment Criteria
Publication Date: 13th October 2008
Subject: CIEH
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH), and academic
consultancy Land Quality Management (LQM) have announced their intention
to join again with practitioners to produce a new, fully-documented set of
Generic Assessment Criteria under the revised CLEA model and associated
guidance issued recently by the Environment Agency.
Two years ago, the two organisations came together to host a unique
stakeholder workshop, resulting in a set of GACs under the old CLEA model
which was warmly received by practitioners and has been widely adopted
throughout the UK.
Commenting on the initiative, LQM Director Paul Nathanail, Professor of
Engineering Geology in the University of Nottingham, said:“At that time, of
course, production of SGVs had been suspended. Though we appreciate the
commitment by the Agency to complete the series this time, and know work is
now underway, it could still be almost two years before that is finished.”
“But users don’t want to wait that long” added Howard Price, Principal Policy
Officer at the CIEH, “we have both been receiving requests from local
authorities and the private sector to repeat the exercise and speed things up.
We’ve always advocated a cross-sectoral approach and don’t think we can
resist those requests any longer.”
Applying the same model as before, the organisations are now making
arrangements to run a workshop in which practitioners from all sectors of the
contaminated land community including regulators, consultants, developers
and land owners will be welcome to collaborate.
LQM’s Head of Contaminated Land, Caroline McCaffrey said: “The experience
of two years ago shows we have the capability to do this again. As before,
the output will be transparent, scientifically based and policy compliant and
practitioners will be able to have confidence in it.”
It is expected that the results will be published in the early Spring next year.
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