Standardised Methodology
Regulator-Consistent
Evidence-Based Risk Audit
Asset Protection
Many local authorities and landowners hold land with a landfill history and little information about what lies beneath it. ISRRA® exists to change that. England's only trade-marked historic landfill risk Audit framework, it identifies risks, establishes responsibility with evidence, and gives you a defensible basis for decision-making – before a crisis forces the issue.
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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 work for The Crown Estate and with local councils and landowners, and structured to be consistent with our 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.
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 ISRRA® Audit is validated and issued by AFWR as methodology owner and validation authority. The framework can be commissioned directly or delivered under licence through your existing environmental consultancy.
Who Needs An ISRRA®?
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.
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Local Councils
Establish the risks from historic landfill in your area before they become a crisis, and take the evidence to district, county and regulators. -
Landowners and Property Owners
Quantify the liability beneath or beside your asset before sale, development or dispute. -
Developers and their brokers
An early, low-cost screen of historic landfill risk before an option or promotion agreement is signed. -
Environmental Consultancies
Commission ISRRA® for clients, or deliver it under licence as a named, trade-marked framework. -
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.
Why ISRRA® matters now
Nearly 20,000 historic landfill sites lie beneath the land and coastlines of England. Most have never been formally audited. An early audit is not precautionary box-ticking. It is the difference between managing a known risk and inheriting an unmanaged one.
Erosion
More than 1,200 historic landfills in England lie in coastal flood zones, and one in ten could erode by 2050 if defences are not maintained (Brand & Spencer, Queen Mary University of London, for the Environment Agency); they are moving from dormant to active liabilities.
Flooding
Floodwater passing through historic landfill can carry contaminants into homes and watercourses, the risk at the heart of Zane's Law.
Liability
Responsibility falls on whoever holds the land above; without evidence, that liability is unquantified.
No inspection regime
There is no funded programme to audit England's recorded historic landfill sites; ISRRA® is the low-cost first step.
Urgent & Growing Risk
Coastal erosion does not wait. Property transactions do not pause for subsurface history. Legal liability does not give warning. With more than 1,200 historic landfills in England in coastal flood zones, and one in ten at risk of eroding by 2050 if defences are not maintained, 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 Gap the Planning System Does Not Fill
Development-management policy assesses 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.
A Regulator-Consistent Methodology
ISRRA® is consistent with our Environment Agency's Stage 1 Land Contamination Risk Management guidance and was developed through work for The Crown Estate and with local councils and landowners across England. It is the only trade-marked framework of its kind in England, giving commissioners a defensible, regulator-consistent evidential foundation.
Proven track record
ISRRA® Audits have been commissioned by town and parish councils across England – from Cheshire to Sussex – including Skegness, Lewes, Frodsham, Withernsea and Burnham Overy, with Horncastle in progress. In every completed audit, risks were surfaced that were previously unknown or unacknowledged, and each has prompted engagement at a higher tier of government – from town to district, and from district to county.
Most recently, Lewes Town Council received its full ISRRA® Audit at Full Council on 23ʳᵈ July 2026.
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.
About A Future Without Rubbish CIC and Luke Douglas-Home
A Future without Rubbish CIC is the organisation behind ISRRA®, led by founder and Chartered Environmentalist Luke Douglas-Home. Through work for The Crown Estate and with local councils and landowners across England, AFWR has developed ISRRA®, England's only trade-marked framework for Initial Site Risk and Responsibility Audits of historic landfill sites.
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 evidence to understand the risks to people and to our environment, protect asset value, satisfy due diligence, and engage regulators and developers with confidence.
Understand Your Risk Before It Becomes A Crisis
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.
Turn Environmental Values Into Action
From Parliament to practice, ISRRA® isn't theoretical. It is being commissioned now by town councils that need to understand the ground beneath their feet. With around 20,000 recorded historic landfill sites in England and coastal erosion accelerating, the question isn't whether to audit; it's when.
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