Klondikes site (Park & Patersons) new housing

[My login is Henrietta]

I walked the dog down the Middlewood way this afternoon, and water is gushing from the building site into the adjacent brook, which is now overflowing in places. Very worrying if it is toxic.

Did you do anything about what you saw? The brook is the responsibility of the owners of the land on either side of it but the council or the Environment Agency may be able to enforce any legislation regarding pollution.

[chicken lady]

I walked the dog down the Middlewood way this afternoon, and water is gushing from the building site into the adjacent brook, which is now overflowing in places. Very worrying if it is toxic.

[Miss Marple]

The ground was deemed too toxic to build on a couple of years age.  A comprehensive study by toxicologists was called for by central government and the findings were that no housing was to be built on the site as it was deemed dangerous .  Then suprise suprise a couple of years later the document that was on the net disappeared and sadly the rest is history    A common view is that builders distributed the contaminated soil so that the toxins level when re tested were not as high, thus getting the green light to develop on the site.  Ask anyone who worked at Park and Patersons about their health and the amount of workers who died prematurely whilst working there or indeed the high amount of cancer amongst the workers, their tales are worrying.  I for one would discourage anyone from living on that land 

[My login is Henrietta]

Just heard something very worrying today that is the new housing development which has recently started  on Klondikes old site has to have a disclamer signed by potential buyers to say  that if they purchase a house they can not grow fruit and veg.  Is this the same site that not long ago the environmental dept in Big City said was clean      Would you buy a house on a toxic waste sight where you had to sign to say you would not grow fruit and veg even for personal use  

And what happens to subsequent buyers after the first round of buyers sell up? As there are strict regulations about the preparation of former industrial land for domestic building, it may well be that the developers are hedging their bets in case of future legal hassles.

[Rachael]

Im sure there was another topic on the website Miss Marple about something to do with the ground being toxic , something to do with the old steel works ( I think it was a steel works, but im sure someone will put me right )

[Miss Marple]

Just heard something very worrying today that is the new housing development which has recently started  on Klondikes old site has to have a disclamer signed by potential buyers to say  that if they purchase a house they can not grow fruit and veg.  Is this the same site that not long ago the environmental dept in Big City said was clean      Would you buy a house on a toxic waste sight where you had to sign to say you would not grow fruit and veg even for personal use