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Not all contaminated sites will be this easy to spot. Image © John Durrant

Contamination of commercial properties is not always visible to the naked eye and, quite often, the problems are hidden underground.  Recently, the purchase of a town-centre retail property based on brownfield land, seemingly in excellent condition, was not as straightforward as it first appeared.

The property was built on the site of buried gas works that, it emerged, were heavily contaminated and unless you were to conduct an environmental search you would fail to realise the danger until, inevitably, toxins had begun seeping into the nearby river.

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