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22nd February 2012 - CL:AIRE – Development Industry Code of Practice

GRM director Bill Peacock and Principal Environmental Scientist Richard Sutton have recently been accredited as Qualified Persons for the above scheme, which encourages the sustainable management of construction waste and development of land. The Code of Practice enables developers and contractors to use and re-use excavated materials on site or at alternative locations without the requirement for often time consuming waste management permit or exemption applications. The Code of Practice has enabled the EA to take a back-seat role in regulating such operations, the proposals and approvals for which are reviewed and approved by a Qualified Person, who submits their declaration to the EA’s register.

GRM are already working on a number of schemes under the Code of Practice which will save their client’s 100’s of thousands of pounds by allowing them to re-use non-hazardous and hazardous waste in safe and sustainable ways with no impact upon the environment or their development programmes. The Code of Practice also enables developers and contractors to open and manage treatment sites known as ‘Hubs’, or ‘Clusters’, from which waste materials or contaminated soils can be treated away from their point of origin before being returned to site as a re-useable product.

If you would like more information on the Code of Practice or are working on projects which you think might benefit from the re-use of materials, please contact Bill Peacock or Richard Sutton at GRM.

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