A portfolio of 620 former gasworks with assorted environmental liabilities is not the stuff of your average property entrepreneur's dreams. However, SecondSite Property - a subsidiary of National Grid Transco - has shown how it is possible to extract value from polluted sites and return much needed land to the marketplace. Statutory pressure in the shape of the new contaminated land regime has helped galvanise the company into action - but along the way, it has worked hard to build capacity and expertise within Britain's land remediation industry.
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Categories:
- Carbon & Energy Efficiency;
- Products & Supply Chain;
- Contaminated land;
- Liability & insurance;
- Soil pollution;
- Energy;
- Friends of the Earth;
- Urban Task Force;
- English Partnerships;
- British Gas Limited;
- Transco;
- National Grid Company;
- Lattice Property;
- Institute for Environmental Management and Assessment;
- SecondSite Property;
- Niagara Mohawk
