This document can be more clearly viewed at – http://www.sheilaoliver.org/contamination.html
“The decision not to disturb the pitch was a verbal one….”
So, they tried to get away with not bothering to investigate a very large part of what they knew was a seriously contaminated site when they knew a primary school was to be going there. When I pointed out to LibDem Stockport Council they had failed to investigate properly they called me a liar and vexatious – and they still do. The site should have been investigated on a strict grid pattern under BS 10175. They repeatedly claimed in writing to have complied with this.
We have seen the location of the old tip and the location of the school are one and the same. We have seen previously that no contamination trial pits were dug where the school was going (deliberately so no contamination would be found).
The ///////// areas marked on this old map are where the old tip was. Slap, bang underneath the new 550 pupil and 78 babies nursery. In the late 1800s a brickyard was on the site with a brick kiln. Claypits were dug out to obtain clay for the bricks. Brickmaking was continued up until the 1950s and then the clay pits were filled in with rubbish. There was no record kept at that time of what was tipped as tipping wasn’t regulated. Some of the contamination found in the paltry four contamination pits they actually bothered to dig at the far end of the site to where the school was going showed Benzopyrene, which is a carcinogenic substance probably from the old brick kilns.
This document can be more clearly read at – 
