The National Contaminated Land Officers group (NCLOG) will be holding their AGM and Conference on the 21st May. This half day event will contain presentations from the NCLOG Committee on NCLOG activities, as well as the opportunity to hear from expert speakers and engage in dialogue on topical issues at the center of contaminated land.

This event is free to attend and only for NCLOG members.

NCLOG is free to join for all Contaminated Land Officers. Request to join by emailing NCLOG's Officer Ellie Savage (ellie@the-ies.org).

Confirmed speakers below.

Keynote Speaker - Interdisciplinarity at the IES

Adam Donnan, Chief Executive, The Institution of Environmental Sciences

Adam has worked for the IES in various roles since 2006. In 2013 he was made the organisation's first CEO. Past non-executive roles include chairing the Science Council from 2021-2024, and acting as a trustee for the organisation from 2017-2014. He chaired the Technical Pathways Programme Board from 2020-2024, which oversaw a project to engage the science community with technical education. Adam was Vice President of the European Network of Environmental Professionals (ENEP) (2013-16), director of SiLC, and a non-Executive Director of Change Agents UK (2011-16). Past employment roles include a secondment as Interim CEO of the Society for the Environment (2014-15). He was the 2014 Young Leader of the Year at the Association Awards UK and named in the ENDS Powerlist of the top 100 environmental professionals in 2022 and 2023. He holds an MBA, a BA History and is a Chartered Environmentalist.

Environment Agency Update for CLOs

Angela Haslam, Senior Advisor, Environment Agency’s National Land & Contamination Management Team

Angela has worked for the Environment Agency for over 25 years and is a Chartered Waste Manager and a Chartered Environmentalist. She is the EA’s land contamination and PFAS working group legacy contamination lead providing specialist operational support and represents the Environment Agency at several contaminated land industry groups and forums.

Panelists: The UK's Housing Crisis - challenges and opportunities for contaminated land
 

Rae Watney, Contaminated Land Officer, Sheffield City Council

Rae has been a Local Authority Officer specialising in Contaminated Land for the last 5 years, and prior to that worked in Contaminated Land consultancy. She is active in local and national officer groups for NCLOG and YALPAG, and was a member of the working group for the NCLOG guidance on simple cover systems. In 2021, she won Best Young Brownfield Professional at the Brownfield Briefing awards.

Sarah Hamill, Contaminated Land Officer, West Dunbartonshire Council

Sarah was appointed as the Contaminated Land Officer for West Dunbartonshire Council in 2006. During this time Sarah has managed to progress the Council’s Contaminated Land Strategy through the investigation of a number of potential Part IIA sites and has subsequently overseen the successful remediation of a number of these. More recently Sarah’s main duties have been in relation to many of the large scale regeneration projects within the authority including the EXXON Bowling Site, the Former Carless Oil Refinery, and the Queens Quay regeneration project in Clydebank. Sarah is a Full member of IES and is also a member of the Society for Environment Soils & Stones Executive Committee. Sarah also currently represents the Central/West Authorities on CLAG (Contaminated Land Advisory Group).

Michael Eaglestone, Principal Planning Officer, Sheffield City Council

Michael Eaglestone is a Principal Planning Officer in Sheffield City Council’s Major Development and City Centre Team. He has worked in planning for 19 years in both the fields of minerals and waste and general major development management with experience of a wide range of development projects including both greenfield and brownfield major housing, commercial, industrial minerals and waste project.

Dr Rebekka McIlwaine, Contaminated Land Officer, Belfast City Council

Dr Rebekka McIlwaine has over 10 years of experience in the contaminated land sector.  She is currently Contaminated Land Officer (CLO) at Belfast City Council (BCC) in Northern Ireland.  As CLO, Rebekka is responsible for providing technical contaminated land advice to Planning as a consultee, as well as advising her Environmental Health and wider BCC colleagues on contaminated land matters.  Prior to becoming CLO at BCC in 2018, Rebekka worked as an environmental engineer at RPS.  In her role at RPS she completed contaminated land assessments, remediation strategies and verification reporting for various private clients.  Rebekka has a degree in Civil Engineering and a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Queen’s University Belfast.  She is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Water and Environmental Manager with CIWEM.

Theresa Cory C.Geol, CSci, ASoBRA, SILC and SQP, Senior Advisor, Environment & Business Land Contamination Team, Environmental Agency

Theresa Cory joined the Environment Agency’s Herts & North London as a Groundwater Protection and Contaminated Land specialist in 1999, after working on a hazardous landfill site for 4.5 years. Career highlights include working in the PPC Strategic Permitting Group, on the clean up after the Buncefield incident, Thames Tideway tunnel, working on the 2012 Olympics amongst the regular spatial planning, Part 2A and Environmental Permitting work. She is a Senior Advisor in the Environment & Business Land Contamination team. Theresa is a committee member in the Geological Society Contaminated Land Contamination Group, Vice-Chair NQMS steering group and Brownfield Briefing Awards judge.