Stockport Council News

BS 10175 (7.6.2.1) states “the more sensitive the receptors…the greater degree of confidence needed in the outcome of the risk assessment and the subsequent risk management.”

Greater Manchester Geological Unit said 104 boreholes and 209 trial pits (some from an investigation in the 1990s) were not enough for the Council for the sister former Jackson’s Brickyard site at Adswood, but for this school, directly over the old tip, 4 contamination pits and 11 boreholes on a similar-sized site were adequate. Why? Vexatious to ask apparently.

In 1922 there were three Jackson’s Brickyards in Stockport. The school site in North Reddish, what is now Adswood Tip and Bredbury Tip and industrial estate.

When they had finished brick-making in the 1950s they filled in the claypits with rubbish. When legislation was introduced in the early 1970s to record what was being tipped, the parent company of the three sites, which had had a similar layout and history including tipping history since 1922, Christian Salveson, applied to the Council for planning permission to build housing on the three sites. The Council refused because the sites were too dangerous to build on.

Christian Salveson appealed to the Secretary of State and the Council was forced to buy the three sites off them.

In the 1980s contamination investigations were done at the Bredbury site in order to build the tip and warehousing. Even then, even for that purpose, better contamination investigations were done than were done in 2006 for a 550 pupil primary school and nursery for 78 babies! I mentioned this at the time. Don’t be so vexatious the LibDems said, and they still do.

These documents can be more clearly viewed at – http://www.sheilaoliver.org/contamination.html

July 2006 the project was £2.40million above available funding. Why wasn’t there a re-think at this point to instead renovate the existing three schools?

Why does LibDem Stockport Council still maintain I am vexatious for raising the matter of funding, making defamatory remarks about me.

This document can be more easily read at http://www.sheilaoliver.org/financial-irregularities.html