Landmark Information Group articles

Brades Rise was originally a clay pit with a long history of municipal waste dumping, but given it was also adjacent to a factory had a significant quantitiy of industrial waste added to it. The pit was filled in and then became a sports ground.
It was sold by a sports equipment manufacturer in the 1980s and in recent years has had several developers competing to build but planning applications have been turned down. Most recently Morris Homes bought the site (with existing knowledge). It wan

Landmark`s Historical Map and Land Use datasets are invaluable for the identification of potentially contaminated land as part of the 1995 Environment Act.

The challenge:
Part IIa of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 makes local authorities responsible for the identification of historically contaminated land, which poses a threat to human health or to the environment, within their jurisdiction and for enforcing the remediation of identified sites.

Local autho

Landmark Solutions, the UK provider of geospatial information, solutions and services, was selected by DEFRA as the prime contractor to carry out noise mapping for the Potteries area of the West Midlands. This work forms part of the Government’s National Ambient Noise Strategy (NANS), part of which is focused on mapping noise levels from roads, railways, aircraft and industrial sites across England.  Due to be completed by 2007, the first stage in the development of NANS is the Noise Mapp

Landmark Solutions, working with an urban and regional planning consultant, has developed a standardised Land Use Constraints dataset, which is supplied as polygons, points and lines.

The information is derived from the development plans published by Local Authorities and National Park Authorities across Great Britain and, to ensure consistency and ease of use, has been divided into eleven standardised Level 1 categories. Land use data for the whole of Great Britain were captured as a one-of

In August 2001 Tessa Jowell, Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, announced the proposal for a `Domesday Book of Sports Facilities`.

The objective was to establish a single authoritative database of sports facilities for England and to disseminate this information freely to the public, central and local government, National Sports Governing Bodies, commercial organisations, applicants for funding, and other organisations. It aims to become the definitive source for identifying,

ANGRY homeowners are demanding compensation after experts discovered a wide area of residential land has been poisoned with lead, arsenic and zinc. Ninety-one homes on an estate in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool are affected and owners fear house prices will plummet.

Council chiefs are now taking legal action against the former landowners and the company which built the properties in the 1970s, but warned that it could take several years for the problem to be resolved for those affected. The land

Seventeen families in a Coventry street faced an uncertain future and major disruption to their lives following the discovery of the highly toxic chemical that had polluted the land on which they lived. The one-acre site was previously owned by the Courtaulds chemicals and textiles group, which used it to store carbon disulphide (CS2) – a raw material in the manufacture of viscose rayon at a factory nearby. The site had a license for use dating back to 1902 and use ceased in 1967, after which

Teachers and their pupils can now have access to digital historical maps, supplied by Landmark Solutions, through Digital Worlds` innovative new educational software package.

Landmark`s extensive and unique digital archive of historical maps covers the whole of Great Britain and gives a complete step-by-step picture of the land use changes that have taken place between the 1840s and the 1990s.

The archive was created as a joint venture between Landmark and Ordnance Survey, by digiti

An old gas company sold land to Maesteg Rural District Council for social housing in the 1970s. Although the land had been sold, improved historic data has indicated the gasworks site was much larger than originally thought – and nearer to residential housing.

British Gas inherited the site, and as part of maintenance programme undertook ‘stabilisation work’ – investigating potential pollutants and threats to groundwater. It was during this work that a major problem was discovered.</

FAngry residents in Old School Close in Littleport, near Ely, Cambridgeshire, are facing possible blight as they cannot
sell or re-mortgage their homes after it was discovered in 2003 that the land beneath them was contaminated.

More than 20 houses were built adjacent to the site of an old gasworks in 1991. Homeowners have been advised not to eat home-grown fruit or vegetables or let their children play in the garden as the soil contains potentially dangerous levels of mercury and other c