West Midlands Doomwatch site updates

A few years ago, I started a list of former waste disposal sites within the West Midlands County; an attempt to list these before the powers that be erase them for purposes of housebuilding and conning people out of money and not telling them the truth about the shite contaminated land that their houses have been built upon or near.

We have seen a massive shift in recent times in the “brownfield building” con man trade, an axis of avarice between politicians who make policy to serve their party political donor mates from this sector, as well as their land owner mates to whom “greenbelt land” will become more profitable so long as they can sit on it for as long as possible by land banking.

We also see this trade facilitated by the snivel service, that glut of lazy still work from home public sector fucking scum who appear unaccountable to anyone if they feel “bullied”- er not doing their fucking jobs properly. They serve business and they fellate certain politicians, and my contempt for them is total. They consider themselves one step above the people who pay their wages- the public, to whom they care nothing. Many of course do not even live in this county preferring Derbyshire/ Worcestershire or anywhere else where they can presumably commute by car whilst trying to inflict their Nazi Globalist lockdown LTN 15 minute cities on those that do.

I have added dozens more sites prefixed by the SL number, but what is clear from the Environment Agencies processed Landfill site database from which I took these is that their information is not complete- there are clearly many many numbers in the SL line that are not there. I have just over 300 named and yet the SL numbers go into the 2000’s! This body or the predecessor in the useless Walsall council run hazardous waste unit further made things difficult by renumbering these with the prefix 644/—-. For example, the infamous Rattlechain lagoon SL31 became 644/60 . At some point, I will add these numbers in and also try to deduce where these are hiding. Some later ones after this also had a WM number, such as the British Waterways Blue Button Tip in Coseley.

British Waterways Blue Button Tip – one of many dredging tips used by this dire former polluter to land

Other observations emerge from compiling this decanted set from theirs.

Many of the sites were granted to either the useless West Midlands County Council or other local authorities within it.
The locations have been possibly lost to history, with many old clay pits and quarries filled in.
There is scant information as to what happened to sites after WW2 and before site licensing, and yet a great deal of information about the historic nature of these sites BEFORE they were infilled with any old crap BEFORE licensing.
This fact leads to scurrilous faked claims by environmental consultancies who leave out key information deliberately to enable their clients to escape the necessary scrutiny of those who question why they fail to find evidence of harmful chemicals- even though everyone knows that they were dumped there. This emboldens a Jackanory story board “site investigation” where boreholes can be cherry picked to find nothing- nothing that would deter development on land known to be contaminated by past use.

An example of this is a site in Coseley known as “Bourne Street” which I am looking into. notice how long periods of time are omitted between certain key events, such as 1966, BEFORE SITE LICENSING, and then 1992, AFTER THE LICENCE HAD ENDED. The operator at this site was the scandalous Leigh Environmental offshoot, Leigh Land Reclamation Limited.

The Environment Agency noted the following priceless comment attached to this particular planning application, which is very much a part of the problem.

“Assumption” without any factual scrutiny

The same goes for local authorities who want to offload land because they are piss poor and have mismanaged money for many years, like Sandwell Council. An example of this is the bent land deal at Friar Park where land has been bolted together with Severn Trent Water’s contaminated shithole remnants that it has not paid a penny to remediate. The land itself is a haven for wildlife and not “brownfield” in any way.

Severn Trent Water have flogged off many of their former sewage works since privatisation, making over £49 million from the sale yet have relied on the public purse to “clean them up” after this; the days of the corrupt BCDC now merge into the corrupt WMCA- just a different acronym where they steal our money to pay for their own profit giving nothing back. They remain one of the worst environmental polluters in the country. It is even more disgraceful that they are a statutory consultee on planning matters, so may make favourable comments about applications which benefit their own avarice. THEY SHOULD BE STRIPPED OF THIS ROLE.
A common tactic of those involved in greenwashing by selling land and pretending to increase its biodiversity is the token hedgerow or useless fucking shit like “swales”. These dead end ditches are bollocks, and serve only to collect surface water pollution from polluters like Severn Trent and others, and probably the contaminants from places built on whose past use has not really been “cleaned up” at all.