March 2005 RM Journal
Polluter pays?
By Jan Caunter and Anna Cowperthwaite, Ellis Gould
In late 2004, some Auckland landowners were advised by their local authority that their properties were potentially contaminated by past horticultural use and would now be subject to a Land Information Memorandum (“LIM”) statement to that effect. Landowners wishing to remove the LIM statement had to pay for soil samples to be taken and analysed, confirming the site was “clean”.
