Brownfield Land Wales 2018

• Outlining key objectives, timescales and responsibilities:
• highlighting the differences to planning policy in England
• how will the new Wales Planning Code encourage the utilisation of brownfield sites for development?
• Examining the role, and implications for development, of contaminated and brownfield land in this new planning framework
• Exploring how local planning authorities will be supported to enable brownfield sites to be brought forward:
  • clarifying key points; eg “de-risking” and “deliverability in economic terms”

Mark Roberts

Director, Barton Willmore

• Understanding the value of robust conceptualisation in defining an appropriate CSM (understanding your sources, pathways and receptors)
• Developing an effective CSM to underpin an appropriate monitoring strategy; dealing with uncertainty
• Case Study: Asbestos characterisation and risk assessment  - pitfalls and opportunities

Phil Thomas

Technical Director, RPS Group

Richard Graham

Associate Director, RPS Group

• Detailing the background to the site and why it was investigated
• Overcoming the logistical, human and physical challenges:
  • SSSI in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
  • location and site conditions
• Creating a multi-discipline project team and the benefits of this
• Best practice site investigation techniques and technologies enabling live interpretation of data on-site and remotely
• Lessons learned and next steps

Rachael Davies

Contaminated Land Officer, Flintshire County Council

Neil Thurston

Project Manager- Site Evaluation & Restoration, Arcadis

• Examining the extent to which recently updated guidance has changed the approach to groundwater risk assessment
• Understanding the latest monitoring requirements and procedures to choose appropriate groundwater monitoring techniques
• Making the most of established analytical techniques to reduce conservatism in the DQRA process

Duncan Cartwright

Associate Director, Atkins

• Examining the coal mines gas hazard; the gases, their properties and the source-pathway- receptor model
• Introduction to former mining techniques and early legislation to manage risks
• A review of the Coal Authority records and UK and Welsh mining legacy, with examples of Welsh mines gas disasters
• The extent of the Welsh coal mining hazards with reference to sources pathways and receptors
• Assessing the risks of former mining activity in Wales, including specific hazards and risks associated with mine gas
• Examining the recent Gorebridge mines gas event and looking at the implications and lessons to be learned
• Mines gas management and opportunities for the future

Simon Talbot

Managing Director, GGS

• Examining prioritisation & feasibility at priority abandoned metal mine sites
• Innovative techniques for managing the environmental impact of abandoned metal mines in Wales – an update on the pilot projects

Peter Stanley

Geotechnical Engineer, Natural Resources Wales

• Defining soils with low level, ‘trace’ and sporadic asbestos contamination
• Best practice for applying CARSOIL to a site with minor asbestos contamination issues:
  • applying the CARSOIL & Control of Asbestos Regulation 2012 (CAR2012) to sites with minor contamination issues
  • appropriate control measures on sites minor asbestos contamination
  • the importance of a robust SI and identifying additional asbestos issues onsite during development
• Managing material with minor asbestos contamination:
  • segregation of materials and avoiding cross contamination
  • processing and remedial techniques for asbestos fibres in soil
  • refining waste classification, waste reduction and the costs of disposal.
• Examining the technical and legal implications of re-using material with minor asbestos-contamination:
  • deciding what material can be re-used on site
  • gauging the Regulator’s view on re-use
  • the longer-term risks of re-using & how it should be monitored over time
• Case study: Practicalities of identifying, remediating and re-using asbestos-contaminated materials on-site

James Macfarlane

Technical Director (Asbestos), Hydrock

Understanding the distribution of contamination within the land and developing an effective and targeted remediation plan was essential to ensuring that Tata’s Port Talbot’s power plant development plans could be delivered in a compliant and cost effective way.

In this case study, you will gain an insight into the effective management of a complex site development scheme by listening to a first-hand account of the remediation works at the Tata Port Talbot steel-making site. Following a background into the site and power plant development plans, Paul will discuss how the remediation plan was developed, including the soil re-use acceptance criteria and soil re-use strategy. Key information on contamination risk assessment, materials management methods, as well as monitoring and verification will be included to give you a broad overview of the site investigation and land remediation strategy for the project.

Paul Tilley

Operations Director, Socotec

The Llandarcy Oil Refinery in South Wales was opened in 1921 and the site was run by BP until the mid-1980s.  In 2008 the site was acquired by St Mowden Developments Ltd with the aim of transforming it into the first sustainable ‘urban village’ in South Wales; a community with 4,000 homes, schools, leisure space, commercial space and sports facilities.

The development is one of Europe's largest brownfield sites and one of the most important regeneration projects underway in South Wales. Requiring an extensive remediation programme, drainage and infrastructure improvements, and ecological considerations, as the site is adjacent to a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), the development of this site has required truly integrated multidisciplinary solutions.

Tim Budd

Associate Director: Infrastructure, Atkins