Contaminated Land Close to Implementation in Scotland

United Kingdom

The final draft of the statutory guidance on the contaminated land regime was finally laid before Parliament on 25th May 2000. The guidance is accompanied by Regulations (The Contaminated Land (Scotland) Regulations 2000) which are hoped to be laid before Parliament within the next 10 days, which should ensure that the regime will come into force on 14th July 2000.

The text of the guidance is substantially unchanged since the last, third consultation in November 1999, however some detailed changes have been made in light of the responses to the consultation. It is hoped that when the entire regime comes into force, both the statutory guidance and Regulations will be freely available on the Scottish Executive website at www.scotland.gov.uk.

For further information on this topic, please contact Verity Kidd at
[email protected] or on +44 (0)20 7367 3000.