Event reports
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Stopping and remediating PFAS from a former fire training unit
This Brownfield & Regeneration Network webinar looked at an award-winning* collaboration effort between Regenesis and Mott MacDonald, constructing the first injectable permeable reactive barrier in the UK to treat PFAS. Ian Grant reports.
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Vapour intrusion mystery investigated
In this webinar, CR partner Simon Burr explains the techniques used from multi-level boreholes to in-house vapour monitoring and how the communication strategy was vital in gaining access to the homes.
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What are the foundations to your remediation?
Earthworks, or the use of engineered fill, is now a frequent activity as sites need to be prepared before house building can take place. In this Network event, speakers from NHBC’s Land Quality Service team explained the newly published addition to the NHBC’s Standards, Chapter 4.6 - Engineered Fill.
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News analysis
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Brownfield
Radon: how is the industry adapting to new protection guidance
It is one year on from the new version of BR211: Protective Measures for New Buildings and in this Brownfield and Regeneration Network webinar, four experts look at the changes and how the industry had adapted.
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Infrastructure
Government targets 150 infrastructure projects
It says the forthcoming Planning and Infrastructure Bill will set out how the delivery process for critical infrastructure is streamlined with the consenting process for major infrastructure projects simplified
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EIA & Planning
Reaction to the revised National Planning Policy Framework
Changes to planning regulations have generally been welcomed, along with greater weight to brownfield in the wording but others urge more stability, more change, and more powers to local authorities.
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EIA & Planning
NPPF: Green and Grey belts take housing strain
Labour adopts a sequential approach to releasing land to meet housing need: brownfield first, followed by low-quality land in the green belt and only then higher-performing land
Events
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free webinar
VENTURA Project: Integrated Water Management Planning to enable Sustainable Urban Growth
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free webinar
Kilnwood Vale Landfill Redevelopment for Housing: Project Presentation
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conference
Brownfield Land Scotland 2025
Radisson Blu Hotel, Glasgow