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Environmental desktop search

A report on the risk that land is contaminated, compiled from old maps and records without a site visit. The result for Beckside Works said “further action recommended”. So Fellgate sent its environmental consultant, who found an old underground oil tank. Chapter 6 · see Closure report

Explained in Chapter 6, Searches, of Buying Commercial Property.

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An environmental desktop search reports the risk that land is contaminated. It is compiled from old maps and public records, and nobody visits the site. The result for Beckside Works said “further action recommended”. It gave two reasons: more than sixty years of printing, and a boiler house and fuel storage on a 1970 map.
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