Contaminated Land At The Former Avenue Cokeworks, Wingerworth, Derbyshire

EDM number 24 in 1996-97, proposed by Harry Barnes on 23/10/1996.

That this House calls upon the Secretaries of State for Health and the Environment to jointly establish a full-scale and impartial investigation into the nature, extent and impact of hazardous and toxic materials on contaminated land on the site of the former Avenue Cokeworks at Wingerworth, Derbyshire, which would undertake detailed research into the impact of past operations on the site upon the health and well being of the former workforce and of the local communities; further calls for such an investigation to assess the likely impact for cases of asthma, cancer, heart disease and ill-health generaly of present plans to commence opencast mining operations on the site, which will involve the movement and buriel on-site of the contaminated land in question, and insists that a block be placed upon the commencement of the opencast operations to allow this investigation to take place which should be given the duty of reporting on the best available methods of cleaning and discontaminating the site in the safest possible fashion.

This motion has been signed by a total of 33 MPs.