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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 validated 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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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 the environment), protect asset value, satisfy due diligence, and engage regulators and developers with confidence. Commission your audit today.
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The ground beneath your assets has a history. In most cases, that history is poorly documented, incompletely understood, and legally unresolved. ISRRA™ exists to change that – giving councils, landowners, and their advisers the evidence they need to understand harmful risks, establish responsibility, and act before a crisis makes the decision for them.
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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.
Proven Track Record
Already commissioned by local councils across England – including Skegness, Horncastle, Lewes, Frodsham, and Withernsea.
In every case, the audit identified risks that were previously unknown or unacknowledged. Part-funded by the King Charles III Charitable Fund and the Orp Foundation. Presented in Parliament in connection with Zane's Law – the Clean Land (Human Rights) Act.
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 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.
Validated Methodology
ISRRA™ is consistent with the Environment Agency's Stage 1 Land Contamination Risk Management guidance, developed through sustained fieldwork with The Crown Estate, local councils, and landowners across England. It is the only framework of its kind in the country to carry independent validation, 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
Landowners and Property Owners: A historic landfill beneath or adjacent to your asset is an unquantified liability until assessed. ISRRA™ gives you the evidence to understand that liability, satisfy due diligence requirements, and protect asset value before sale, development, or dispute reaches a point where the absence of that evidence becomes costly.
Estate Agents
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
Local Councils Skegness, Horncastle, Lewes, Frodsham, and Withernsea have each commissioned ISRRA™ audits. In every case, the audit surfaced risks that were unknown or unacknowledged before fieldwork began. ISRRA™ 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.
The Ground Is Moving. Are You Ready?
Coastal erosion doesn't wait. Property transactions don't pause. Legal liability doesn't give warning. Get the evidence you need now.
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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 sustained fieldwork with the Crown Estate, local councils across England, and landowners, AFWR has developed and validated the only framework in the country for conducting Initial Site Risk and Responsibility Audits of historic landfill sites.
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ISRRA™ identified risks beneath our coastal assets that were completely unknown to us. The audit gave us the evidence we needed to engage the Environment Agency and protect our community.
Local Council Representative
As estate agents, ISRRA™ has become an essential part of our due diligence for coastal and brownfield transactions. Our clients appreciate the clarity.
Estate Agency
Working with Luke has been a pleasure. Being a chartered environmentalist, his commitment to improving our environmental impact sparked positive change, saving costs while reducing pollution and waste. A transformative influence, Luke has guided us towards a more sustainable and conscientious approach, delivering tangible results for our company.
Gareth Waterworth MD of RF Trustee Co. Limited
The methodology is thorough, community-led, and consistent with regulatory guidance. We now integrate ISRRA™ into our Phase 1 assessments.
Environmental Consultancy
Working with Luke is doing something important and heroic …making sure that your environmental footprint is lessened.
Defra and the Environment Secretary
Testimonials
The work has been presented in Parliament in connection with Zane’s Law – the Clean Land (Human Rights) Act – 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 the environment.
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. It is England's only validated historic landfill risk audit framework—developed with the Crown Estate, local councils, and landowners and consistent with Environment Agency Stage 1 Land Contamination Risk Management guidance.
Environmental Consultancies
ISRRA™ is a validated 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 seamlessly incorporated into your existing service offering as a named, independently validated 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.
ISRRA™ identifies harmful risks, maps them, quantifies them, and establishes responsibility with evidence. It is available to commission directly or to integrate into an existing environmental consultancy service.
Part-funded by the King Charles III Charitable Fund and the ORP Foundation, and presented in Parliament in connection with Zane's Law — the Clean Land (Human Rights) Act — ISRRA™ is at the centre of the national conversation about what local authorities owe the communities living above historic landfill sites.
Nearly 20,000 historic landfill sites lie beneath the land and coastlines of the UK. Many have never been formally assessed. 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 assessment is not precautionary box-ticking. It is the difference between managing a known risk and inheriting an unmanaged one.
