Contaminated land strategy

This list has been drawn up to provide a broad indication of the type of sites that are known to use, or to have used in the past, materials that could pollute the soil. It must be understood that the list is not exhaustive and that inclusion on this list does not necessarily infer the existence of a pollutant linkage.

• Abattoirs

• Adhesives manufacture

• Agriculture

• Aircraft manufacture

• Airports

• Animal burial

• Animal by-product processing

• Anodisers

• Anti-corrosion treatment

• Asbestos products

• Asphalt works

• Automotive engineering

• Battery manufacture

• Bearings manufacture

• Blacksmiths

• Boiler makers

• Bookbinding

• Brass and copper tube manufacture

• Brass founders

• Brewing

• Car manufacture

• Carbon products manufacture

• Cement works

• Chemical manufacture and storage

• Chrome plating

• Ceramics manufacture

• Coal carbonisation

• Coal merchant

• Concrete batching

• Coppersmiths

• Descaling contractors (chemical)

• Detergent manufacture

• Distilleries

• Dockyards

• Drum cleaning

• Dry cleaners

• Dye works

• Dyers and finishers

• Electricity generation

• Electrical engineers

• Electro platers

• Engineering works

• Explosives manufacture (including fireworks)

• Farms

• Fertiliser manufacture

• Fellmongers

• Fibre glass works

• Food processing

• Foundries

• Fuel manufacture

• Fuel storage

• Garages and depots

• Gas mantle manufacture

• Gas works

• Glass works

• Glue manufacture

• Gum and resin manufacture

• Hatters

• Hide and skin processors

• Ink manufacture

• Iron founder

• Iron works

• Knackers yards

• Lacquer manufacture

• Laundries

• Leather manufacture

• Metal coating

• Metal manufacture

• Metal sprayers and finishers

• Mining

• Mirror manufacture

• Motor vehicle manufacture

• Oil fuel distributors and suppliers

• Oil merchants

• Oil refineries

• Oil storage

• Paint and varnish manufacture

• Paper works

• Pesticides manufacture

• Petrol stations

• Photographic film works

• Photographic processing

• Paper manufacture

• Plastics works

• Plating works

• Power stations

• Print works

• Printed circuit board manufacture

• Radioactive materials processing

• Railway land

• Railway locomotive manufacture

• Refiners of nickel and antimony

• Resin manufacture

• Rubber manufacture

• Scrap metal dealers

• Sealing compound manufacture

• Sewage works

• Sewage sludge disposal areas

• Sheet metal merchants and works

• Ship breakers

• Ship builders

• Skein silk dyers

• Small arms manufacture

• Smokeless fuel manufacture

• Soap manufacture

• Solvent manufacture

• Solvent recovery

• Steel manufacture

• Stove enamellers

• Synthetic fibre manufacture

• Tank cleaning

• Tanneries

• Tar and pitch distillers

• Textile manufacture

• Thermometer makers

• Timber treatment

• Timber preservatives manufacture

• Tin plate works

• Transport depots

• Tyre manufacture and re-treading

• Vehicle manufacture

• Vulcanite manufacture

• Vulcanisers

• Waste disposal

• Waste recycling

• Waste treatment

• Zinc works