![]() “We drove him down a road, the SLEMS is there. “When we were in the Daily Mail with Rishi and he had his expensive shoes on, he was stood there pointing all over the place. If you have a site that’s so contaminated that it’s unviable, the view from Treasury is that no-one would ever develop it, so the Treasury don’t get any landfill tax as it would sit there forever. Mr Houchen, who said the issue has been a “big headache”, added: “This is giving us a fighting chance to remediate everything on site rather than trying to leave pockets, which going back to the original business case, was always the plan. ![]() They will need to detail how the land would go from non-viable to viable and confirm that all of the correct permissions are in place, which includes from the Environment Agency but could also involve others like the Health and Safety Executive and the Marine Management Organisation depending on the project. “This is massively environmentally friendly as sites that would sit there as contaminated can now be dealt with because it’s financially viable to do so.”Īpplications will need to be made to the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs. So all of a sudden you just have mountains of waste that just sit there. But went on to add: “Unless we had this rule changed, we just didn’t have the money to take it off-site. Tory Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen claimed it was the ‘“least sexy” announcement that came out of the budget. READ MORE: List of Middlesbrough's pavements and play parks set to benefit from £287,000 Landfill tax was introduced in 1996 to encourage less waste to be dumped in landfill and more environmentally friendly options, like recycling, to be considered instead. It will apply to areas where the cost of the tax is acting as a barrier to contaminated land being remediated and redeveloped. Katie also said the evidence given by the doctors was "really, really hard to listen to and, at times, me and my mum had to leave court"- as they could not bear to hear the evidence about what happened.A new scheme announced by the government will give full remediation works at Teesworks a ‘fighting chance’, according to the Tees Valley Mayor.Īs part of Wednesday’s budget, the government announced it will develop a grant scheme to fund the costs of the landfill tax to public bodies in England. Instead, she made the decision to lie which increased our pain and heartache further. "She knew what she had done to him, and she could have said so from the start. However, this selfish and cruel act meant as a family we had to endure weeks of listening to medical evidence about the horrific injuries Harvey sustained. ![]() "She chose to lie, no doubt to try and save herself. "What has been so difficult is the fact that Leila Borrington lied about what she did to Harvey. "He was the most loving boy anyone could have wished for, and we will always treasure the short time we got to spend with him. "Those differences, however, were what made Harvey so very special. "Since that dreadful day in August 2021, we have sat and listened to others talk about his 'difficulties', his 'conditions' and his 'diagnosis'. "Leila knew this when she abused him and then killed him in a violent attack. He couldn't tell me he didn't want to go. "My beautiful boy couldn't talk, he couldn't articulate the suffering he had to endure.
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