<p> Regulatory Services Environmental Protection Bartholomew House Bartholomew Square Brighton BN1 1JP</p><p>Date: 19 December 2014 Our Ref: 2014/11754/EH Contact: Audrey Sharma Phone: 01273 293142 Audrey.sharma@brighton- hove,gcsx.gov.uk</p><p>Dear Ms Brown,</p><p>Freedom of Information Request Ref: FOI/4112 Northern block of land between Blackman St and Station St Brighton (north of Britannia House)</p><p>Thank-you for your contaminated land enquiry dated 26 November 2014. Having viewed the Council’s records of the area I can confirm that a small section of the site has been prioritised under Part IIA of The Environmental Protection Act 1990 as potentially contaminated land. The site is also next to and near other sites (within 50m) which are potentially contaminated land as outlined below in Table 1 and on the attached maps. </p><p>I would also like to stress the importance of the use of the term ‘potentially contaminated land’, rather than ‘contaminated land’, which has a very specific legal meaning and carries with it associated consequences.</p><p>Based on former or current uses, there are approximately 3000 potentially contaminated land sites within Brighton and Hove. These sites have been risk rated A-E, A being the highest priority sites and E’s the lowest. Due to the number of sites listed for further investigation, I cannot give an exact date when further investigation of those sites listed in the table below will occur. </p><p>I have also checked the records the Council has from East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service which list the sites that were licensed for petroleum fuel storage (the derelict tank register). On the latest register sent to me (January 2013), the nearby entry to the site is 12-13 Blackman Street, where a 550 gallon slurry-filled tank was said to be sited underground in 1983.</p><p>If requested by a third party under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, the contents of this letter may be disclosed by Brighton & Hove City Council. Telephone: 01273 290000 www.brighton-hove.gov.uk Derelict tank records are held by the fire authority and if further information is required please make contact with the Petroleum Officer, Mick Huckstepp at East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service on 01323 462130 (there may be a charge).</p><p>I hope this information meets your purposes. Please do not hesitate to contact me on the above telephone number should you wish to discuss the matter further.</p><p>Yours sincerely</p><p>Audrey Sharma Environmental Health Officer</p><p>Whilst all care has been taken in examining existing records, Brighton & Hove City Council cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of any information held or provided from the records. This letter is for information purposes only and the responsibility for further enquiries rests with the applicant or their advisers.</p><p>Where information has been supplied, you are advised that the copyright in that material is owned by Brighton & Hove City Council and/or its contractor(s) unless otherwise stated. The supply of documents under the Freedom of Information Act does not give the recipient an automatic right to re-use those documents in a way that would infringe copyright, for example, by making multiple copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public. Brief extracts of the material can be reproduced under the “fair dealing” provisions of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1998 (S.29 and S.30) for the purposes of research for non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news reporting. Authorisation to re-use copyright material not owned by Brighton & Hove City Council and/or its contractor(s), should be sought from the copyright holders concerned. </p><p>If you are considering re-using the information disclosed to you through this request, for any purpose outside of what could be considered for personal use, then you are required under the Public Sector re-use of Information Regulations 2005 to make an application for re-use to the organisation from which you have requested the information. Applications for re-use should be directed to me at the address above.</p><p>TABLE OF POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED SITES WITHIN 50M Distance Date Former Use Name of Address Trade Inspecti from company Director on site/orientati y priority on 1878 Coal W Banfield 14 Station Kelly’s C merchants Street 20m N 1902 Coal/coke Banfield Brighton Pike’s C merchant and Co. Railway Station 25m E 1968 Sheet metal H A Waller Cheapside Kelly’s C workers – tin, iron and zinc 30m S 1896 Hatters A Stevens 89 Kelly’s C Trafalgar St</p><p>OS Historic maps (obtained via ArcMap GIS) Position of historical uses in relation to the site (edged in red) 1875 1930 1954-1962</p>