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- 2005
- Estates Gazette (0518) 7 May 2005, 146(1) .
Considers the increasing importance to surveyors of access to timely, accurate and authoritative information to assist them in work such as environmental contamination risk assessment. Following the judgment in "Circular Facilities (London) v Sevenoaks DC" (Abs68340), access to information is deemed to be crucial to the question of liability. House builders, Circular Facilities, were found to be liable for the consequences of pollution because a land contamination report was believed to have been made available to them at the time of development. Advises surveyors on some of the best electronic and paper information sources in the environmental field and warns them that their sources must be constantly updated and that selection of the best sources can often be difficult.