SuRF-UK is the United Kingdom’s Sustainable Remediation Forum – an initiative set up to progress the UK understanding of sustainable remediation and sustainable land management. SuRF-UK is also a member ...
... efficiency and using cost-effective land management options
Partnership – CL:AIRE can work collaboratively with your current partners
Community – Our community guides and teaching aids inform and ...
The National Quality Mark Scheme for Land Contamination Management (NQMS) is a scheme that has been developed by the National Brownfield Forum (formerly known as Land Forum) to provide visible identification ...
... management with confidence that risks associated with ground gases have been adequately managed. The scheme applies to both the practical installation of the gas mitigation measures and to the verification ...
The DoW CoP provides a clear, consistent and efficient process which enables the reuse of excavated materials on-site or their movement between sites.
Use of the DoW CoP supports the ...
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) is seeking views on improving the implementation of biodiversity net gain (BNG) for minor, medium and brownfield development. Further information ...
The European Council has reached a provisional deal with the European Parliament on a directive establishing a framework for soil monitoring to improve resilience and manage the risks of contaminated sites. ...
In March 2025, CL:AIRE published a new guidance document Piling and Penetrative Ground Improvement Methods on Land Affected by Contamination: Guidance on Pollution Prevention.
Download the file here ...
CL:AIRE is conducting some improvement development tasks on the DoW CoP Declaration Portal. The specifics of the changes are detailed below.
Updated LA and EA / NRW offices list
The LA and EA/NRW ...
A joint advice note has been published for the nuclear sector titled Regulatory expectations for successful land quality management at nuclear licensed sites. It was issued in October 2024 by the Office ...
Concawe has published a report called Identification of sustainable management practices (SMPs) for remediation projects at fuel manufacturing sites. This report presents the results of a project which ...
To support individuals in the role, CL:AIRE has published a DoW CoP Qualified Person (QP) Handbook. This resource aims to provide QPs with a centralised source of information about the requirements of ...
The Environment Agency is starting its consultation about the process of reviewing and updating the river basin management plans. Further information is available here. The consultation closes on 14 May ...
New requirements are coming into force in 2025 in relation to the transportation of loose material containing free asbestos. In advance of the new requirements of the Agreement concerning the International ...
The UK Government has published an update on its development of Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR): a framework that is intended to facilitate the flow of robust sustainability information between ...
The National Audit Office has recently reported on the progress Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and Natural England have made on implementing statutory Biodiversity Net Gain, ...
The Office of Environmental Protection (OEP) has carried out a programme of work looking in detail at the implementation of three regimes in place to assess the environmental effects of proposed developments: ...
