|
Information type or layer name |
Information source |
Format |
Use |
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Historic maps |
Ordnance Survey |
Paper/ Digital |
To locate potential contaminative land-use types |
|
Historic landuse database |
Under consideration of purchase |
Digital |
To locate potential contaminative land-use types |
|
Records of potential contaminative landuses, soil surveys and
remediation work previously undertaken |
Development Control and Building Control files on development in
the District. Paper files and information stored on computer
database system |
Paper/ Digital |
To identify known information on contamination:
sources/pathways/receptors |
|
Current and former Integrated Pollution Control/Alkali Act
sites |
Environment Agency/Environmental & Consumer Services
records |
Paper/
Digital |
To locate potential sources of contamination |
|
Waste Management Licence information |
Environment Agency |
Digital |
To locate potential sources of contamination |
|
Closed landfill/former waste disposal sites |
Planning Services and information supplied by the Environment
Agency |
Digital |
To locate potential sources of contamination |
|
Scrap metal dealers (current and historic) |
Environmental & Consumer Services and Environment Agency
records |
Digital |
To locate potential sources of contamination |
|
Environmental Protection information |
Environmental Protection hold records of pollution complaints
and investigations on paper and Uniform database system |
Paper/
Digital |
To identify known information on contamination |
|
Historic landuse |
Kelly’s Trade Directories, Thompson Directories from public and
local libraries |
Paper |
To locate potential sources of contamination. |
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Groundwater Vulnerability Map |
Groundwater Vulnerability Maps at 1:100 000 scale
[14] [15] |
Paper |
To locate potentially sensitive (controlled water) receptors and
corresponding pathways |
|
Source Protection Zones |
Environment Agency |
Digital |
To locate potential (controlled water) receptors |
|
River water quality |
Environment Agency |
Digital |
To locate potential (controlled water) receptors |
|
Floodplain areas |
Environment Agency |
Digital |
To locate potential pathways and (controlled water)
receptors. |
|
Consents to discharge to controlled waters |
Environment Agency |
Digital |
To locate potential sources of contamination |
|
Water abstraction licences |
Environment Agency and Environmental & Consumer Services
records |
Digital |
To locate potential (controlled water) receptors |
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Current ‘base maps’ |
Ordnance Survey 1:1250 / 1:2500 ‘Landline’ data |
Paper/
Digital |
Present-day base map information layer on which to overlay
subsequent layers of information |
|
Geological maps |
Solid and drift geological maps at 1:50 000 scale [16] |
Paper |
To characterise potential sources and pathways |
|
Local Plan information |
Existing and draft Local Plans. |
Paper |
To locate potential receptors (particularly protected areas of
the environment) |
|
Protected Species Records |
Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre |
To be confirmed |
To locate potential receptors (particularly protected species,
such as Bats, Badgers and Great Crested Newts) |
|
Sites and Monuments Records |
Council Archaeological Officer |
Digital |
To locate potential receptors (including Archaeological Sites
and Ancient Monuments) |
|
Registers and recordings of receptors |
Regulatory authority |
Digital |
To locate potential receptors (including SSSIs and
NNRs) |
