Date: Friday 17th of February 2012
Time: 09:30 - 13:00
Location: George Porter Conference Room, University of Sheffield
Date: Friday 25th of November 2011
Time: 13:30
Location: Thoresby Room, Leeds City Museum
YCLF Meeting
Hydrogeological aspects of Risk Assessment in relation to Decommissioning Nuclear Sites - David Hall
Effective Use of Rota-Sonic Drilling in Site Investigation - Wesley Wray
Assessing health risks associated with contaminated land - Dr James Wilson
Managing Contaminated Land During New Build on the Sellafield Site - YCLF
Date: Friday 16th of September 2011
Time: 09:30 - 12:30
Location: Eureka Museum – Halifax (www.eureka.org.uk)
Making Sense of the Spending Review, new Regulations and Changes to the Planning System
The Bright Side of Tax - Hilary Allen + Sian Llewellyn (Aecom)
The New Environmental Impact Regulations - Juliette Bradbury (Gateley)
Reflections on the Decentralisation and Localism Bill - David Shaw (University of Liverpool)
The Environmental Damage of Regulations - Richard Turney (Landmark Chambers)
Date: Wednesday 6th of July 2011
Time: 09:30 - 12:30
Location: Centuria Building, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BA
Carbon Neutral Remediation - Andrew Barton
Engineering the Soil Carbon Sink - Professor David Manning
Practical Application of a Cluster Arrangement - Mike Longman
Date: Friday 20th of May 2011
Time:
Location: Priory Street Centre, 15 Priory Street, York YO1 6ET
Please see attached agenda for the forth coming event please confirm to John by Friday 13th of May JohnScott@barnsley.gov.uk.
The places will be allocated on a first come basis - be aware that we have a limited capacity of 100 attendees and our members list has grown to 450.
Compost use in Soil Manufacture - Lee Best
Date: Friday 11th of February 2011
Time: 9.30-12.30
Location: George Porter Conference Room, Sheffield University
Date: Friday 26th of November 2010
Time: 13:00 - 16:30
Location: Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AA
YCLF & RTPI Yorkshire Joint Meeting
'Planning & Land Contamination'
Followed by refreshments and social networking session from 16:30 to 18:30 at the nearby 'Revolution Electric Press'. First drink and canapes to be provided.
Speakers will examine legal issues, discuss case studies, look at ways of designing development around land quality issues, and review the current and planned changes to the planning systems and documentation. (Full programme and location details to be circulated).
For further information and to book your place at this free event please email Zoe Cooper at zoe.cooper@wspgroup.com. If you are a current member of YCLF or RTPI, please note when booking.
Yorkshire Contaminated Land RTPI
JMD RTPI Planning and Land Contamination Presentation
Date: Friday 10th of September 2010
Time: 10:00
Location: Avenue Coking Works near Chesterfield
The next YCLF meeting will be at Avenue Coking Works near Chesterfield on Friday 10 September 2010. The meeting starts at 10am and unfortunately can only be open to 40 delegates and these will be limited to only one person from each organisation. The delegates will need to bring basic PPE of hard hat, high viz and safety boots. The visit will be in two halves with 20 delegates arriving by car at the main site entrance on the A61 Derby Road for the site tour and the other 20 delegates arriving by car at the site's visitor centre on Mill Lane at Tupton for the presentation. The two parties will then swap over for the other half of the visit. Delegates will be assigned to the two groups nearer the time and location maps will be provided.
Avenue is owned by East Midlands Development Agency and the £172M cost of remediation is funded by the Homes and Communities Agency. The remedial works have been designed by Jacobs and will be carried out over 5 years by the VSD Consortium, which includes Volker Stevin, SITA, DEC and Entec. At 100 hectares Avenue is considered to be one of the largest and most contaminated sites in Europe. The site contains two large tar sludge lagoons and a hazardous waste landfill as well the plant area. The remedial strategy involves soil washing, bioremediation and thermal desorption. The River Rother runs between the two lagoons and needs to be moved to a new location so that all of the alluvium can be remediated. A dam will be constructed across the river valley as a flood alleviation scheme for Chesterfield. The site will be redeveloped as a mixture of housing, industrial units, public open space and wildlife habitats.
If allocated a space please ensure you can guarantee attendance - confirm by email to zoe.cooper@wspgroup.com by Friday 27th of August
They will also be a waiting list created should none of the allocated 40 can attend.
The Avenue former Coking Works Remediation and Regeneration Project - Natalie McIldowie & Brian Sims
Date: Friday 14th of May 2010
Time: 09:30 - 13:00
Location: EA Offices Leeds
Date: Friday 5th of February 2010
Time:
Location: University of Sheffield
The Way Forward - Where are we now? - Chris Barrett
Ecological Risk Assessment Framework - Dr Danielle Ashton
Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Groundwater - Guidance Update - Angela Haslam
Date: Friday 27th of November 2009
Time:
Location: EA Offices Leeds
The 'Corby' case has reinforced the view that competency is a crucial issue for land quality practitioners. The need to ensure we can all demonstrate our ability to undertake work at a recognised standard to third parties is paramount and hopefully something we can all relate too. Of equal importance is recognising that we all have limitations within our skill base, nobody can be an expert in every area nor should we try to be; but we can all be proactive in recognising our limitations, taking positive steps to improve in these areas or seeking assistance.
The YCLF and EPUK Yorkshire Division joint meeting at the E.A. offices in Leeds on 27th November will explore what is currently happening nationally and give you the opportunity to influence the skills development framework process.
At some point, not too far from now, it is looking increasingly likely that we professionals will all be expected to sign up to some method that demonstrates our competency to do our job, or risk losing work. Now is your chance to have your say, to influence the direction this agenda takes. Should we all be working to the same scheme, should it be independently managed, should it be accredited...? So many questions come to mind.
The presentations at this meeting will give some background to the different approaches being proposed and the afternoon session will collate your views and feed these back to Housing & Communities Agency, Environmental Protection UK, Chartered Institute of Environmental Health and other organisations. If possible please commit to the full day (we will ensure it finishes on time at 4pm), these schemes will affect us all and we must have our say.
Contaminated Land Competency Work - Ann Barker (Content from Matt Whitehead)
Training Competencies & Accreditation - Ann Barker
Competencies and Accreditation: a SiLC viewpoint - Kevin Eaton
A Report Capability Framework Scheme for Contaminated Land Practitioners in England - Liz Hamer
LC Skills Development Framework - Matt Whitehead
Environmental Protection UK - Neil Schofield
Regional Local Authorities Skills Development - Sarah Greenhough
Environment Agency Technical Development Framework - Sarah Scott
Date: Friday 11th of September 2009
Time:
Location: The Deep, Hull
Contaminated Land - Roland Bolton & Katrina Hulse
Best Practice Though The Planning Application Process - Indigo
YAHPAC Planning Guidance - Mary Jones
Former Gas Works, Clough Road, Hull - Nik Dixon & James Dunnet
Date: Friday 8th of May 2009
Time: 09:30 - 12:30
Location: 'The Barn', Bradford University, Horton Building
Date: Friday 6th of February 2009
Time: 09:30 - 12:30
Location: Sheffield University, George Porter Conference Room
Date: Friday 14th of November 2008
Time: 09:30 - 13:00
Location: Eversheds LLP, Bridgewater Place, Leeds
Building and Maintaining Standards - The Relevance of SiLC - Phil Crowcroft
YCLF Annual Review - Ann Barker
Date: Friday 5th of September 2008
Time:
Location: Priory Street Centre, York
Vapour Intrusion - Empirical Measurement in Risk Assessment - Mat Warboys
Poole Case Study - Mat Warboys
Ground Gas Risk Assessments - Using the Traffic Lights - Dr Richard Boyle
Date: Friday 4th of July 2008
Time:
Location: Centuria Building, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough
Date: Friday 16th of May 2008
Time:
Location: National Coal Mining Museum
Date: Friday 15th of February 2008
Time:
Location: Sheffield University, George Porter Conference Centre North Campus
Date: Friday 16th of November 2007
Time:
Location: Eversheds LLP, Bridgewater Place, Leeds