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Historic landfill

Research

Stages

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These are the questions we answer during the Research stage.

Answering them wil help us learn more about the Historic landfill consideration, determine if a data standard is required and whether we know enough to move on to the next stage.

  • Do we understand the lifecycle of a Historic landfill?

  • Do we understand how the data is created/produced?

  • Where will or should the data be used?

  • Who are the statutory consultees for Historic landfill?

    The Environment Agency

  • Other than the statutory consultees who are the primary users of Historic landfill? How do we expect them to use Historic landfill?

  • What are the planning needs for this data?

    Understanding the presence of historic landfill sites at the plan-making stage is important to understand the relevant mitigation required for the site to make it suitable and deliverable. The existence of historic landfill any less than 250m from a proposed development sites triggers a conversation to be had between the local planning authority and the Environment Agency. The extent of the conversation that would need to be had is something that we don't know.

  • Who are the types of users who might benefit from having access to Historic landfill data?

  • What are some potential uses of Historic landfill data?

  • What's the value of adding Historic landfill data to the platform?

  • From what we have learnt so far are there any risks to making Historic landfill data available?