§ Ms. WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will take steps to record those wartime sites which were evacuated for sand excavation and subsequently infilled with rubble and waste.
§ Mr. ChopeThe Department is currently undertaking a jointly funded project with the British Geological Survey of the solid and drift geology of almost all the built-up area of Stoke on Trent and Newcastle under Lyme. The project started in January 1988 and is planned to be completed by July 1990. Part of the output of the project will be a series of maps, on a number of different themes relevant to planning and development, including the incidence of made ground, categorised where possible by the type of fill material used.
This project is one of a series of geological mapping projects being undertaken in various parts of the country 384W as part of the Department's research programme. The project aims to concentrate on areas of development pressure and to identify among other things, areas where planners and developers may need to pay particular attention to ground conditions.