§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if the land on which the Millennium Dome was built was decontaminated to a sufficient extent to allow houses with gardens to be built on the site. [116983]
§ Ms Beverley HughesThe site of the Millennium Dome has been decontaminated for its current purpose. It is intended that the Dome remains and is not redeveloped for housing. However, while the standard of remediation would not necessarily be sufficient to allow houses with gardens to be built on the site, the exact nature of the remediation that would be necessary could be determined only once the exact details of any development were known. This has been the philosophy throughout the remediation of the whole of the Greenwich Peninsula.