Disaster planning: North Staffs

Why do we care?

2.1 The necessary legislation and management is missing:—

⦿ Map of the PTb from the report dated February 1966

The first … point is the site in North Staffordshire. It doesn’t matter where the site is … but it was rough, it was dirty, rough industrial country. And it is still dirty and rough. A lot of the industry is gone but the land is still tired, dirty and tired.

Price, C., 2000 [11]

A report was submitted to the UK Government in February 1966 [12]. However, there was no official recognition of the site as a disaster area. Nor has there been since.

Thus we care in the particular case of North Staffordshire:—

• … because the necessary legislation and management to enable disaster planning to afford sufficient anticipatory design effort and product is missing.

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