VDCLPO1. KEY REFERENCES :
PLANNING, POLLUTION & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY:
VACANT LAND, CONTAMINATED LAND, DERELICT LAND
(updated: August 4, 2006 )

Arup Economics and Planning (for DOE), 1996, 'Derelict Land Prevention and the Planning System', HMSO, London. Documents Division UK/P95/594

Barton, Hugh & Bruder, Noel, 1995, 'A Guide to Local Environmental Auditing' (Chapter 10: Pollution Control), Earthscan, London. HC79.E5.B2

Blowers, Andrew, 1993, 'Planning for a sustainable environment', (A report by the Town and Country Planning Association), Earthscan, London. GF50.CON

Cullingworth, J.B & Nadin, Vincent, 1997 & 2001, 'Town & Country Planning in the UK', Routledge, London. GP5511.CUL. (13th edition due in September 2001; OFL on 8.8.01)

Department of the Environment (DOE) (former; from June 1997 to June 2001
part of the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions; DETR):

Planning Policy Guidance Note no. 23, 'Planning and Pollution Control', October 1994.
'The Environment Agency and Sustainable Development', HMSO, November 1996.
'The UK National Air Quality Strategy', DOE, March 1997.
'This Common Inheritance' Annual Reviews of Progress.
'Digest of Environmental Statistics' (produced annually)

Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) (June 1997 - June 2001)
- website: http://www.detr.gov.uk
NB: DETR replaced from June 2001 to May 2002 by the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR)

'Digest of Environmental Statistics', published annually by TSO, e.g. September 1998.
'Circular 2/98: Prevention of Dereliction Through the Planning System', January 1998.
'Towards an Urban Renaissance: The Report of the Urban Task Force chaired by Lord Rogers of Riverside', Routledge, June 1999. ISBN 1 851121 65X (Executive Summary available from DETR Free Literature, Wetherby and at http://www.detr.gov.uk (OFL on 29.6.99)
'Implementation of Part IIa of the Environmental Protection Act 1990', (Contaminated Land Guidance Consultation Paper) on the web at:- http://www.environment.detr.gov.uk/consult/contaminated/part2a/index.htm

Environment Agency (EA), Bristol:
'An Environmental Strategy for the Millennium and Beyond', 1997.
'Corporate Plan 1998-99: Our Forward Look to 2000-2001', 1998.

Harris, James et al, 1996, 'Land Restoration and Reclamation', Longman, Harlow, Essex. GF1600.HAR

Haughton, G & Hunter, C, 1994, 'Sustainable Cities: Part B: Introduction to Pollution', Jessica Kingsley, London.

Lowe, Philip & Ward, Stephen, 1998, 'British Environmental Policy and Europe', Routledge, London. (OFL)

Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP):
'Best Practicable Environmental Option' Cm 310, 1988.(Sutton Bonington Library Oversize TD186.5.G6.G7)
'Freshwater quality: additional reports undertaken for the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution', 1992. Oversize QH545.W219.FRE
'Seventh Report: Incineration of Waste', 1993. Overzsize TD796.GRE
'Eleventh Report: 'Managing Waste - Duty of Care', 1994? (QH545 ROY)
*'Eighteenth Report: Transport and the Environment,' HMSO, October 1994 (published in paperback by OUP, Oxford, September 1995).
*'Nineteenth Report: Sustainable Soils', HMSO, 1995. Documents Division CM3065

Royal Town Planning Institute, 2001, 'Introductory Guide to Planning and Environmental Protection', RTPI, London EC3, June (OFL on 8.6.01)

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