PERSIMMON HOMES HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ON AN ALLEGEDLY RADIOACTIVE SITE

Leaflet distributed to households in the area notifying that:

1. Planning permission had been granted for a residential development on the former Shell "petrochemical storage site"

2. "Some" decontamination had been carried out by Shell.

3. The site was still contaminated but the Wokingham District Council did not consider that there was any health risk.

4. There was no evidence to support claims made by an unidentified local resident (Ray Fax).

5. The property developer PERSIMMON HOMES had agreed to have a further decontamination process carried out to deal with "known past use of the site" i.e. as a petrolchemical storage site.

THE LEAFLET

CONTAMINATED LAND UPDATE PAGE 1 JUNE 1998

CONTAMINATED LAND UPDATE PAGE 2, JUNE 1, 1998

Subsequent Notice to Residents from PERMISSON HOMES

Notice to residents in Earley, Reading from PERSIMMON HOMES plus letter to Ray Fox: June/July 1998:

For some reason the housing site developers Persimmon Homes appeared to prefer the term "remediation" to "decontamination" when describing the pending treatment of the radioactively contaminated site previously owned by Shell

PERSIMMON HOMES NEWS RELEASE 18 SEPTEMBER 1998 ENTITLED "SAFE AS HOUSES AT EARLEY RISE"

Persimmon Homes Decontamination Validation Report, Earley Rise, Reading: February 1999:

Part 1

Part 2

By now Ray Fox had kicked up such a commotion that Persimmon Homes actually used the dreaded word: "Decontamination".

The former Shell site has been unsuccessfully "decontaminated" at least three times. It appears that no one involved in the repeated decontamination processes were aware of any nuclear/radioactive past history of the site on which the housing development took place.