Validated Methodology
Legal & Regulatory Foundation
Evidence-Based Risk Audit
Asset Protection
Many local authorities hold land with a landfill history and limited information about what lies beneath it. ISRRA® exists to change that. England's only registered historic landfill risk Audit framework, it identifies harmful risks, establishes responsibility with evidence, and gives your authority a defensible basis for decision-making – before a crisis forces the issue.
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From Parliament to practice, ISRRA® isn't theoretical. It's being commissioned now by councils, landlords, and developers who need to understand the ground beneath their feet. With nearly 20,000 historic landfill sites across the UK and coastal erosion accelerating, the question isn't whether to audit; it's when.
Protect Your Assets from Historic Landfill Risk with ISRRA®
Who Needs An ISRRA®?
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Understand Your Risk Before It Becomes A Crisis
Why ISRRA® matters now
Bathroom
Installations
When choosing Amanzi, you’re getting the full package from idea to reality.
Commercial &
Landlords
We offer tailored service and maintenace packages for residential and commercial landlords.
General
Maintenance
We can help with a wide range of water-related problems, from a dripping tap to burst pipes.
Plumbing Services
All aspects of plumbing and drainage from general pipe work and testing to installing and unblocking drains.
A gap the planning system does not fill
Development-management policy audit contamination parcel by parcel, application by application. No one audits the cumulative picture – how flood water, groundwater and multiple neighbouring sites interact across a whole town or catchment. The ISRRA® Audit is designed to fill exactly that gap.
Urgent & Growing Risk
Coastal erosion does not wait. Property transactions do not pause for subsurface history. Legal liability does not give warning. With tidal erosion threatening around 10% of the UK coastline by 2050, historic landfill sites are moving from background liability to foreground crisis – and the authorities and landowners responsible for them need the evidence to act, not react. Inaction is an action.
A regulator-consistent methodology
ISRRA® is consistent with the Environment Agency's Stage 1 Land Contamination Risk Management guidance and was developed through sustained fieldwork with The Crown Estate, local councils, and landowners across England. It is the only registered framework of its kind in the country, giving commissioners a defensible, regulator-consistent evidential foundation.
Historic landfill sites represent unquantified legal, environmental, and financial liabilities for councils, landowners, developers, and consultancies alike. In most cases, the people responsible for the land above them have no evidential basis for understanding what those sites contain, what risks they carry, or where liability falls. ISRRA® collates existing evidence — systematically and before a crisis to public and environmental health forces the issue.
Landowners and Property Owners
A historic landfill beneath or adjacent to your asset is an unquantified liability until Audited. ISRRA® gives you the evidence to understand that liability, satisfy due diligence requirements, and protect asset value before sale, development, or dispute reaches the point where the absence of that evidence becomes costly.
Estate Agents
Your clients – buyers, sellers, and developers – are transacting on land whose subsurface history may be entirely unknown. ISRRA® provides the factual foundation to proceed with confidence, or to identify and flag risk before it becomes a legal problem for you or for them.
Local Councils
Councils from Lincolnshire to Sussex have commissioned ISRRA® Audits. The Audit gives your authority the evidential foundation to engage developers, regulators, and upper-tier government from a position of informed authority – and to demonstrate that your risk-management approach meets the standard the regulatory framework expects.
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and Luke Douglas-Home
A Future Without Rubbish CIC is the organisation behind ISRRA®, led by founder and Chartered Environmentalist Luke Douglas-Home. Through sustained fieldwork with The Crown Estate, local councils across England, and landowners, AFWR has developed the only registered framework in the country for conducting Initial Site Risk and Responsibility Audits of historic landfill sites.
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The work has been presented in Parliament in connection with Zane's Law – the proposed Clean Land (Human Rights) Bill – and is part-funded by the King Charles III Charitable Fund and the Orp Foundation. ISRRA® represents years of community-led research, fieldwork, and methodology development, translated into a practical tool that protects people, assets, and our environment.
Whether you are managing coastal property, brownfield land, or a rural estate, ISRRA® gives you the evidential basis to know the risks to your health (and that of our environment), protect asset value, satisfy due diligence, and engage regulators and developers with confidence.
Whether you're managing coastal property, brownfield land, or rural estates, ISRRA® gives you the evidence base you need to protect asset value, satisfy due diligence, and engage with confidence.
What is ISRRA®?
England has nearly 20,000 historic landfill sites. Most of the people responsible for the land above them do not know what those sites contain, what risks they carry, or where liability falls if something goes wrong.
The Initial Site Risk and Responsibility Audit (ISRRA®) changes that. Developed through sustained fieldwork with The Crown Estate, local councils and landowners, and consistent with the Environment Agency's Stage 1 Land Contamination Risk Management guidance, it establishes known and unknown risks and quantifies those risks using a standardised ISRRA® risk rubric.
Environmental Consultancies
ISRRA® is a Phase 1 methodology aligned with the Environment Agency's Stage 1 Land Contamination Risk Management guidance. It can be commissioned directly on behalf of clients, or incorporated into your existing service offering under licence as a named, registered framework.
Stakeholder Connections
Foster positive engagement with environmental groups and communities for collaborative solutions.
Future-Focused Decision-Making
Encourage a long-term outlook for impactful, sustainable business choices.
Every ISRRA® Audit identifies harmful risks, maps them, quantifies them, and establishes responsibility with evidence. Each approved report is issued under AFWR's document-control system with a unique reference, and concludes with Recommended Next Steps (RNS) that give the commissioning authority a clear, sequenced path to action.
The ISRRA® Audit moves risk from local knowledge to institutional responsibility.
ISRRA® is a registered trade mark of A Future Without Rubbish CIC (UK00004367337, Class 42), covering environmental risk Audit services, the standardised ISRRA® methodology, and the certification and validation of reports. The framework is available to commission directly or under licence through your existing environmental consultancy.
Nearly 20,000 historic landfill sites lie beneath the land and coastlines of the UK. Many have never been formally audit. With around 10% of the UK's coastline facing tidal erosion by 2050, a growing number of those sites are moving from dormant liabilities to active ones — releasing contaminants, undermining land value, and raising questions of legal responsibility that fall on whoever holds the land above them.
Early audit is not precautionary box-ticking. It is the difference between managing a known risk and inheriting an unmanaged one.
Proven track record
ISRRA® Audits have been commissioned by town and parish councils across England – including Skegness, Horncastle, Lewes, Frodsham, Withernsea, and Burnham Overy in Norfolk. In each completed Audit, risks were surfaced that were previously unknown or unacknowledged, and each has prompted engagement at a higher tier of government – from parish to borough, and from borough to county.
Part-funded by the King Charles III Charitable Fund and the Orp Foundation. Presented in Parliament in connection with Zane's Law – the proposed Clean Land (Human Rights) Bill.
Hold for publication after 23rd July 2026: “Most recently, Lewes Town Council received its full ISRRA® Audit at Full Council on 23rd July 2026.”
Developers and their brokers
Before an option or promotion agreement is signed, an ISRRA® Audit provides an early, cost-effective screen of historic landfill risk – informing whether and how a project proceeds, and on what insurance terms.
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