Since its inception in February 2025, the UK Landfills Campaign has attracted 20 campaigns from across the UK; individuals and communities fighting for justice and protection from contaminated land and water in their areas, some of whom have tragically lost loved ones poisoned by toxins.
The UK Landfills Campaign provides a vital space for people to come together, share knowledge, get support and expert advice, and help to publicise their campaigns. All are united behind the drive to get Zane’s Law enshrined into law.
UK Landfill Campaigns include: Launders Lane, Havering: Corby Childhood Cancers: CHARLIE (Cherry Hinton Against the Reuse of Landfill In spite of Evidence): Coldham Lane Landfill: Penrhos, Caerphilly: Brighton Gasworks AGHAST (Action on Gasworks Housing Affordability, Safety and Transparency): Ty Llwyd; Brofiscin; Maendy; Helsby; Alvanley, Telford Stoneyhill, Hereford Sutton Walls, Ruabon Cefn Mawr, Dirty Water, Silverdale Walleys Quarry; A Future Without Rubbish; Tees Port; Mobouy; Beomonds Allotment, Mead Lane Ditch, Hillingdon Leaking Landfill, Gasworks Community United (GCU incorporating Clean Air for Southall and Hayes); North Yorkshire Shore; Pilsworth South Landfill site; Somercotes; Spiceball Park; Withyhedge; Aycliffe; Truth About Zane; Lavenders.
STATEMENTS FROM THE CAMPAIGNS
Support from members of the Senedd
Specific Senedd members have taken an active interest in information concerning the UK Landfill campaign and support the development of this initiative.
A statement of opinion, the equivalent of an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons, has been submitted.
The statement calls for action to tackle forever chemicals in sites across Wales. South Wales East Members of the Senedd (MSs) Delyth Jewell and Peredur Owen Griffiths submitted the motion. So far it has been signed by Plaid Cymru MSs and one independent MS.
Additionally, several matters are underway which will have a direct bearing on environmental matters.
A new Environmental Bill is well underway with expected enactment in Autumn 2025. The temporary Independent Environmental watchdog post will be filled with a permanent post holder.
A meeting with the Welsh Government’s Chief Legal Officer, the Counsel General concerning “Zanes Law” has taken place. It is too late for any legislation before the Welsh parliamentary election in May 2026, so parties will be looking at introducing legislation in the next Senedd term.
Meetings have taken place with CEO and Senior Officers from Natural Resources Wales on related matters and dialogue continues.
Local Authorities have been engaged on environmental matters relating to specific sites, Local Development Plans and remediation works.
A project to deliver a structured remediation and risk assessment of waste tips and slag heaps is well under way with some monies being provided from Westminster Government. This may offer a pathway for future remediation of waste tips and landfill sites in Wales.
Plaid Cymru Autumn conference passed a motion on remediation of waste and landfill sites in 2024. Therefore, it is planned to include objectives in the Plaid Cymru manifesto for the forthcoming election of Senedd of members in May 2026.
Discussion and joint working with Friends of the Earth and environmental campaigners has resulted in a cross-party roundtable Senedd event to be held in the Autumn 2025 on related environmental concerns.
Landfill Surrey – 7 year old Zane Gbangbola
In the early hours of the 8th February 2014, Fire Services HAZMAT detected only “very high levels” of hydrogen cyanide (HCN), as floodwater, flowing through secret contaminated landfill, rose beneath Zane Gbangbola’s Victorian home. Commanders called a Major Incident, the area was evacuated, 50 emergency workers were decontaminated. The incident was escalated to Porton Down, an Emergency COBRA quickly followed. FOIs state that the local hospital was overwhelmed with unwell people, and Zane’s father was left paralysed with a diagnosis of hydrogen cyanide poisoning. Yet, two years later, a coroner concluded that Zane was killed by carbon monoxide (CO), however FoI’s confirm there was no CO! Only Hydrogen Cyanide was detected multiple times. The Mail on Sunday headlined Zane’s case as ‘The Most Toxic Cover Up of Them All’.
Zane’s parents have been tirelessly seeking justice and answers ever since, joined by thousands of campaigners and with the consistent support of the Fire Brigades Union. When, in September 2021, Spelthorne District councillors unanimously voted to demand an immediate Government Inquiry into the cover-up and an independent investigation of the landfill next to Zane’s home, council officers blocked the request, even though documents show the land was known to be contaminated. The officers later admitted to the BBC that, following Zane’s Inquest, they’d been required to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement with regard to this land.
Zane’s case featured in a Labour Party Manifesto as a burning injustice requiring an Independent Panel Inquiry. The same call is endorsed by the Green Party (Zane’s Law is also now Green Party policy), Hillsborough Law Now and several major unions, the FBU, TUC, NEU, CWU, Unison, Unite, NASUWT, together with 118,000 petitioners.
Zane’s Law was launched at CoP26, local authorities across the country, including the London Assembly, are also endorsing the call for a ‘Zane’s Law’ to protect communities from the ticking timebomb of toxic landfill and polluted water, ever more threatening as climate change takes hold and severe flooding is becoming commonplace.
Hidden dangers lurking in unrecorded, uninvestigated and unremediated landfill are, at last, beginning to be taken seriously, thanks to the dedicated work of environmentalists, experts, campaigners and journalists.
The UK Landfills Campaign initiated by the Truth About Zane and Zane’s Law Campaign is growing fast. As Zane’s death and other such tragic deaths and injuries become known, more and more people are demanding a change in current legislation to make it fit for purpose. ‘The Right to a Healthy Environment’ was declared by the United Nations Assembly in July 2022. The time to act is now.
Truth About Zane: https://www.truthaboutzane.com/
Hillsborough Law Now: https://hillsboroughlawnow.org/
AGHAST (Action on Gasworks Housing Affordability, Safety and Transparency)
Marie Sansford
AGHAST is a Brighton campaign set up in 2020 to challenge the development of a contaminated former gasworks in a residential area. The most frequently found contaminants on gasworks sites are tanks of gases and also ground gas – polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) including benzo-a-pyrene, methane and napthalene – and dust containing cyanide, arsenic and asbestos, plus residues of the gases in the dust. There have been a number of media reports about `smells’ and health issues resulting from gasworks developments. Ex-gasworks land is not considered contaminated while capped, and when uncapped there are few regulations covering how it should be treated. There is no public health body overseeing the development of such sites. The Environment Agency (EA) has a minor role but is not known for its effectiveness. AGHAST is affiliated to GCU and together attempts were made to get parliamentary attention via an APPG and then via an MP’s briefing, but most MPs remain uninvolved in this issue and campaigners find them hard to engage. Berkeley Group (BG) wish to develop the Brighton Gasworks amongst many others, having already completed the highly problematic development at Southall. When announcing the Labour `brownfield’ policy and the plan for 1.5 million homes Rachel Reeves and Angela Rayner were wearing BG hard hats. Since the election AGHAST has written to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to share our concerns and our MP Chris Ward asked 3 written questions of Matthew Pennycook the minister for planning. His 3 identical responses simply referred to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), which is not clearly relevant. A meeting with the Minister is now being sought. Currently the Brighton application has been refused on other grounds and an appeal will be heard in March. Gasworks sites pose slightly different issues to landfills, as if these are leaking gases then action needs to be taken, although capping in concrete rather than remediation might be the best solution. What gasworks developments raise is concern about how remediation is done and if it should be done. Bio-remediation is possible but takes time. We are opposing the BG appeal and continue to press the government for a register of contaminated sites, a scientific and medical review of the health implications of developing them – including a determination of which sites are best left alone – and a review of the methods for safely remediating those that are developed.
Caerphilly’s Industrial Legacy
Cllr Steve Skivens (Caerphilly County Borough Council)
My area of Wales has an industrial legacy from the past. Mining waste tips litter the area, plus landfill sites. Many contain harmful and/or toxic chemicals and solutions. In the area where I represent communities, we have Thomas Ness, Penrhos, Virginia Gardens and Ty Llwyd quarry all problematic. Yet pressure on land candidate sites for the Local Development Plan has or seeks to bring such locations into everyday use. Many for residential housing.
Often the neighbouring communities are unaware of the potential risk and/or history of these sites. We look to the Local Authority and National Resources Wales to protect our communities. Yet monitoring, risk assessments and records seem disparate across these sites. We need support via Zanes Law today to protect our community and future generations.
CHARLIE (Cherry Hinton Against the Reuse of Landfill In spite of Evidence)
David Mclean
CHARLIE was formed shortly after a controversial science park development received planning approval in Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, on a former landfill site south of Coldham’s Lane. The proposal, submitted by BGO Newton Propco Limited and Mission Street, was approved in 2024, despite strong opposition from environmental bodies, local groups, and residents.
Key concerns centre around the environmental and health risks of disturbing landfill waste during and after construction. The site contains hazardous substances such as PFAS (“forever chemicals”), heavy metals, asbestos and ammoniacal nitrogenate. Foundation piling could drive these contaminants into the underlying chalk aquifer, which feeds the nearby Burnside Lakes and Cherry Hinton Brook (a chalk stream)—both already impacted by pollutants from the landfill.
The Environment Agency and Environmental Health initially objected but later withdrew their concerns shortly before the planning decision, under legal pressure. Over 100 residents submitted objections, along with groups like Natural England, The Wildlife Trust, Friends of Cherry Hinton Brook, and Cambridge Friends of the Earth.
Despite these concerns, the planning committee voted unanimously in favor of the development.
The approval process, environmental impact concerns, and objection withdrawal by regulatory bodies have led to public outrage and calls for transparency. A Freedom of Information request was submitted to uncover the Environment Agency’s rationale for retracting its objection, which revealed that they felt that they were being asked to be more lenient with this application.
In percentage terms Cambridge is the fastest growing city in the country. There is a lot of speculation on land and local planning officers are under significant pressure from central government to get applications through the planning process as quickly as possible.
The situation at Coldhams Lane raises broader questions about environmental accountability and the integrity of planning decisions, especially when significant public and expert opposition is overridden.
For more information on CHARLIE please see here or its fundraising page here.
Corby Childhood Cancers
Corby is well known for the toxicity from the 80’s. But contaminated land is now a problem across the whole of the UK. It hits all the unsuspecting victims that believe this government is keeping them safe. It hits all the babies and children that believe in us to keep them from danger. It causes devastation, destruction and pain. But the best bit of all…. It’s a little hidden secret that sits beneath us all slowly exposing its invisible self. It’s invisible self- but so visible when a victim must pay. We are only born with our health. It’s the one thing that keeps us alive. Why do we all have to gamble with the gift of health just with everyday living. Why do we have to gamble our life away to live in a country that endangers us. Why are our children are being ravished by cancer. Why are our babies are being born without breath. Why are our children learning to fight back with missing fingers and why are adults are living in sorrow for the inability to have protected their young? Why does Corby have the highest deaths in under 75’s in England? Why has our town seen the highest rates of infant mortality compared to England and Wales? Why has our town become numb to a new childhood cancer diagnosis? Why has our town just had to accept the continuation of deformities?
We do have a right to live in a clean environment.
We do have a right to live without fear.
We do have a right to know that changes will be made to protect us all.
You cannot change what has happened to us, but you can change what is about to happen to others. You can change the suffering, the pain and the funerals that will happen to others. We want to be pro-active, not reactive around measures to ensure safety of future generations. There has been enough babies, children and adults placed into body bags from contaminated land. This isn’t about making the right choice. It is making the choice that must happen. Changes must be made.
Can you help?
For the past few years, we have been investigating a potential link between childhood cancer cases and the toxic waste/contaminated land in Corby. We are asking for anybody that has been diagnosed with cancer between 1988 and today under the age of 24 at diagnosis and lived, studied or worked in Corby.
If this could apply to you, someone you know or someone who has lost a child to cancer, please reach out.
Phone: 07366421760
Email: corbychildhoodcancer@gmail.com
Dirty Water Campaign
Denise Ashurst
Fifty years ago, the UK was called the ‘Dirty Man of Europe’; sadly, we have gone full circle, given the state of our waters. Then, policy idealogues privatised what they saw as potential financial assets, including water. An increasingly discredited neo-liberalist, monetarist economic theory underpinned that catastrophic event.
Since then, the market has ignored or neglected sustainable management of water, the environment being considered an ‘externality’, unworthy of being granted equal priority to the simplistic economics of profit-seeking.
The source of all life, our commons, is entrusted to rent seekers. Visitors to beaches, rivers, ponds and lakes introduced their children to having fun in our waters. They seemed teeming with life, but were systematically being decimated by pollution.
The Dirty Water Campaign, comprises over 650 members, UK-wide. Dirty Water supports many activist groups around the UK, including the Zane’s Law campaign, because we urgently need transparency and accountability about a key source of life.
In particular, we worry about the cumulative impacts of pollution and climate change that brought about the death of Zane and which are killing our waters. Our allies and supporters are outraged and deeply distressed at this horror show.
We are angry at the leniency afforded water industry boards and regulatory officials who have escalated ecocide in recent decades and who fail to carry out many fundamental responsibilities, while serving limited interests.
It is the Dirty Water Campaign’s belief that the political reframing of our precious source of life occurred alongside a regulatory regime unfit for purpose even then, but weakened ever since and despite recent policy tinkering.
Neglectful implementation of regulations has left our watercourses dying through a toxic cocktail of pollution. Evidentially, this attachment to trusting a destructive market mechanism is a busted flush.
We support Clive Lewis’s recent Water Bill, but fear that without a citizen’s assembly being accepted, control of our commons will be lost to the interests of too few, who clearly do not care enough to trust public participation in managing future interests of the many.
We urge those here to consider radically new ways of managing that which our life and that of countless species depends on. We need acrediblecitizen’s assembly on water, in which the people can determine how all aspects of water conservation, provision, storage, purity and treatment, and the management of these services, is to be arranged from now on.
Water belongs to all of us. Assemblies can increase transparency and accountability. Let’s finally rebalance interests of wildlife and the public and point the way to democratic renewal more generally.
Hillingdon Leaking Landfill
Sarah Green
New Years Green landfill site is on the northwest edge of London over the Principal Chalk Aquifer that is licenced to provide large amounts of London tap water. The landfill took domestic and trade waste (mainly from Hammersmith) during the 1960s and closed in 1977 when the disused gravel workings were filled up. The site was topped with a small covering of rough earth and became part of Park Lodge farm (owned by Hillingdon Council).
By 1996 pollution was being noticed in the New Years Green Bourne stream and at the Ickenham Public Water Source. Investigations were carried out, the pollution traced back to New Years Green landfill and the Public Water Source closed.
By 2003 the Water Framework Directive was implemented across the UK. Ickenham Public Water Source having poor chemical quality was given a derogation to become good quality by 2027 and provide much needed drinking water for London.
By 2011 Hillingdon Council had gathered sufficient evidence to designate New Years Green landfill as Contaminated land due to pollution of Controlled waters. A strategy of Natural Monitored Attenuation was chosen and a net work of monitoring boreholes put in place, paid for with public money.
Today the pollution from the landfill still leaks uncontrolled, into the aquifer and down the New Years Green Bourne, nothing has been done to stop it. Some of the monitoring boreholes have been removed, there is no update on monitoring results and no plan to remediate Ickenham Public Water Source. Landfill leachate is travelling in the chalk aquifer into the London basin and polluting the surrounding surface water environments. The derogation was a promise that is being ignored.
Hillingdon Leaking Landfill campaign wants Zane’s Law to be adopted so that landfill pollution contaminating Ickenham PWS can be controlled and people and the environment protected. With a duty of candour Public Authorities will not be able to hide the truth or mislead the public. In Hillingdon we want the Water Environment Regulations 2017 to be enforced and for Ickenham Public Water Source to have a realistic plan to bring it back to Good Chemical quality as promised.
A Future without Rubbish and the ISRRA Approach to Historic Landfill Risks
Luke Douglas-Home, CEnv.
A Future without Rubbish (AFWR) is an environmental community interest company founded by Luke Douglas-Home CEnv, a chartered environmentalist, consultant, and campaigner also known as The Coastline Runner. AFWR’s mission is to promote responsible waste management, environmental education, and practical solutions to address pollution at its source. Through collaborative engagement with schools, councils, businesses and community stakeholders throughout the county and abroad, AFWR raises awareness and drives action towards a cleaner, more environmentally sustainable future.
One of AFWR’s key initiatives is the ‘Initial Site Risk and Responsibility Audit’ (ISRRA), a pioneering model designed to gauge the risks posed by historic landfill sites and identify stakeholders responsible for their remediation. It was developed after substantial risk analysis for The Crown Estate and councils. The Institute of Environmental Sciences publish a relevant blog, here.
Historic landfills, usually overlooked and inadequately assessed and managed, pose very significant environmental and public health risks, including groundwater contamination, methane and other (fatal) gas emissions, and are now more vulnerable than they have ever been. The ISRRA provides a structured approach to assess these sites and engage the relevant authorities in proactive risk mitigation.
ISRRA has now been implemented for four local authorities (e.g. in Skegness here), each audit serving as a catalyst for raising awareness and action. These audits have influenced decision-making at multiple levels—public, borough, and county councils—by ensuring that historic landfill risks are acknowledged and addressed.
Importantly, AFWR’s approach begins at the most direct and accessible level of democracy: the town and parish council. These grassroots institutions serve as vital entry points for engagement, and environmental concerns do escalate to higher levels of governance.
Through ISRRAs, AFWR is not only highlighting the scale of the historic landfill issue but also demonstrating that change is possible when communities and authorities collaborate. By working from the ground up—starting with the lowest level of democratic representation and building momentum upwards—AFWR has been instrumental in fostering greater recognition of this pressing environmental challenge. The ISRRA model has provided a clear methodology for identifying risk, allocating responsibility, and prompting action, ensuring that historic landfills receive the attention they require.
With each ISRRA audit, AFWR reinforces its message that we must consider our environment as we do our financial resources, personal needs, and ambitions. By trying to embed environmental responsibility into the fabric of decision-making, AFWR and Luke Douglas-Home are driving forward a future where historic landfills are no longer ignored, but actively managed for the well-being of both people and planet.
Launders Lane – Rainham
I’m Ruth Kettle-Frisby, a Quaker, disability (SEND) and carer activist, peace activist, and climate justice campaigner with Havering Climate Coalition as well as Mums for Lungs. I cofounded Clear the Air in Havering, and we have taken Havering Council to court via ajudicial review to challenge their decision not to designate the land of a highly flammable, privately owned illegal landfill site as contaminated. We believe Havering council failed to apply the Contaminated Land Statutory Guidance
properly: air pollution is the single largest environmental health risk, and yet they relied on flawed air pollution data and inconclusive evidence based on averaged annualised monitoring, which is not a useful metric when assessing harm from short term severe spikes in PM2.5, especially with repeated exposure.
Rainham is a beautiful historic village in the outer London borough of Havering. One of the most deprived areas in London, its residents understandably call themselves “the forgotten people of Havering”. Arnolds Filed – on the now infamous Launders Lane – is the site of a vast illegal landfill that constantly smoulders underground, bursting into flames every summer causing noxious fumes that permeate playgrounds schools and homes via great plumes of thick black smoke.
Residents report waking up in the night with burning sensations in their throat and vomiting when the smoke is at its worst; and children – especially those with existing health conditions including cancer – are suffering disproportionately. There’s very little the Fire Brigade can do, and yet they called again and again to the site, risking their health and lives each time.
In spite of sporadic soil testing, significant risks to human health remain unquantified with very little in the way of accountability, and Launders Lane is the tip of an indefensible, unsustainable iceberg in a UK-wide contamination health crisis.
Joining the UK Landfills Campaign has given me real hope for Rainham children and beyond, whose health and lives are tragically treated as collateral damage, while those with power are structurally enabled by inadequate regulations to turn their backs on people who are suffering.
I encourage everyone reading this to support Zane’s Law. This would compel Local Authorities and the Environment Agency to keep public registers of any site that may be contaminated and remediate where necessary. Clean air, water and land are basic human needs; access to them should never be reserved for the privileged, but a human right for all.
https://www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-endless-fire-poisoning-a-community
https://www.quaker.org.uk/action/our-stories/taking-legal-action-over-landfill-fires
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Report: Commonside Tip, Alvanley – A Case for Urgent Remediation
Chris Copeman
Commonside Tip, a former landfill northeast of Alvanley in Cheshire, was active from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s. Industrial waste from local factories—including petrochemical, cable, and vehicle manufacturers—was deposited here, much of it undocumented. Evidence has since emerged that highly toxic substances such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were among the materials dumped.
PCBs are persistent organic pollutants banned decades ago due to their long-term toxicity. They do not break down easily, accumulate in living organisms, and are linked to cancer, immune dysfunction, developmental harm. Despite this, Commonside Tip has not been designated a contaminated site, and no remediation has taken place.
Leachate continues to flow from the site into Foxhill Brook, through Helsby, and eventually into the River Mersey. This represents a significant and ongoing environmental threat. The contamination of watercourses, farmland, and potentially the food chain is a serious concern for both local ecosystems and public health. PCBs are concentrated in breast milk and are thought to be the reason that Orcas have not bred successfully off the UK coast for decades.
A previous investigation in 2004 concluded that Commonside Tip did not meet the legal threshold for “contaminated land” under Part 2A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. However, that assessment was based on outdated standards, limited data, and regulatory constraints. Since then, local pressure has reignited scrutiny. In 2023, Cheshire West and Chester Council reopened the case, commissioning new water and sediment sampling and establishing a cross-party task group after a Green party motion to oversee investigations.
In early 2025, specialist consultants AECOM were appointed to carry out a formal site investigation. Initial sampling was completed in July, with on-site intrusive testing set for September. However, final reporting is not expected until mid-2026. In the meantime, the site remains unremediated and continues to pose risks.
Recommendations:
- Officially designate Commonside Tip as contaminated land under the Environmental Protection Act.
- Commit government funding for full remediation, given the absence of identifiable polluters.
- Accelerate monitoring efforts and make data publicly available.
- Prioritise local health and environmental safety in decision-making.
Commonside Tip is a legacy of industrial neglect. Without urgent intervention, its pollutants will continue to leach into the environment. The time for action is now.
Contaminated Land at Leftwich
Speech given by Mike Cooksley at the Zane’s Law Summit on 11th June 2025 on behalf of John Watts.
My name is Mike Cooksley, a broadcast journalist, and I’ve been investigating incidents of contamination in mid-cheshire. During my investigations I came upon the sad event of the death of two young children who both died of Acute Myeloid Leukemia and since then have liaised closely with the father of one of the girls and this is his story.
His name is John Watts.
On the 26th February 2005, his 19-month-old daughter, Rebecca, died.
She died after contracting a rare form of blood cancer, Acute Myeloid Leukemia, so rare that only 8 people a year die of this cancer, in the UK, every year.
And although this in itself was tragic, you may be further alarmed when I tell you that exactly a year prior to her death, another toddler, 17-month-old Sharon Pymer, who lived in an adjoining house, also died, on the 26th February 2004, of exactly the same rare blood cancer.
Although raising concerns, at the time, it was only after the second identical death of his daughter, that alarm bells began to ring. An investigation was rapidly convened involving Environmental Consultants and many organisations including the local authority, the Health Protection Agency and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. So heavy was the concern, at the time, that the then MP, Mike Hall, raised the issue in the House of Commons on 24th March 2005.
The investigation soon revealed that the homes in which his young daughter and his neighbour’s daughter had died, which had been occupied since 1996, were part of a housing estate that had been built on a former landfill tip that closed in the late 1970’s. Further tests showed that the site was contaminated with a cocktail of chemicals including Benzene, Benzo-pyrene and Arsenic and although the houses had been fitted with gas-resistant membranes, examination of these membranes showed that they had not been fitted properly in many places and no house had an intact membrane.
The two-and-a-half-year investigation was inconclusive and stated ‘Whether the mixture of chemicals found in Leftwich could be the cause of the girls’ leukaemia must remain an open question’. However, applying its legal powers under Part IIA of the Environment Protection Act (1990), the Council formally determined the site as contaminated land in 2006.
The fact that the area was a former landfill tip, that was likely to be contaminated, was known by the Developer, The Local Authority and the Environment Agency and yet at no stage, NO STAGE, was he or any of the residents of the housing estate informed of this fact prior to taking up their tenancies.
Of course, there was and still is no mandate that requires organisations to reveal such facts, although one would imagine that ethics alone should dictate this action. However, had he known that his home was built on a contaminated site, he would have thought twice about taking up the tenancy and his little girl would probably still be alive today!
Our public bodies have a duty to prioritise the protection and safety of people, and the human right to a healthy environment above all other considerations. With thousands of people, blissfully unaware that they are living in properties built on contaminated sites, why have successive governments allowed the continual dereliction of duty as regards ensuring that the public can access information about possible contamination of the area in which they are living?
With the government plans to significantly increase house building, aiming for 1.5 million new homes over the next five years, the need to legislate for accessible information on contaminated sites becomes an imperative!
On behalf of families, their children and their children’s children, please support Zanes Law that will help protect people in the future from the continuing danger of contaminated sites.
Thank you.
Leftwich dad joins calls for Zane’s Law in Westminster | Northwich Guardian
If you want to contact any of the campaigns, please email: zaneslaw1@gmail.com
