Stockport Council News

This document can be more clearly read here – http://www.sheilaoliver.org/contamination.html

The contamination ‘experts’ (Council funded Greater Manchester Geological Unit) dug 4 trial pits at the opposite end of the site where the school was to be going. 50% of these paltry 4 trial pits showed they were contamination hotspots.

It was decided to protect children at the school from these contamination hotspots by means of “prickly bushes”. Our Friends of the Earth expert pointed out this was an unsuitable way of dealing with contamination. The plants would take up the contaminants, lose their leaves and die. and be no protection for the children. Don’t be “vexatious” the LibDems said – and they still do.

Trial Pit 01/05, TP02/05, TP03/05 and TP04/05

These documents may be easier to read here – http://www.sheilaoliver.org/contamination.html

The document above is from 20th September 1974 and states the site had been intensively tipped for the previous 20 years, so going back to the 1950s. During this time there was no control over what was dumped.

This document below is refusal of planning permission – J89 – “The land is tipped and unsuitable for building.”

Local MP calls primary school site a toxic minefield and local residents, who had lived next to the toxic dump for decades and knew what had gone on there, agreed.

LibDem run Stockport Council declared it safe as a site for the new 550 pupil primary school and 78 babies nursery, and tried to do no contamination investigations. After local people objected the arranged for one borehole to be dug on the site.