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Condemmed Play Area – Toxic “BUNDS”

Contaminated Land in Sloughs Upton Court Parks contaminated bunds  adjacent to old children’s play area  condemmed    –Hazardous waste .  So toxic that areas which were once the children’s play parks  were left requiring extensive remediation. One of which has been removed,

Castleview DEVELOPMENT. UPTON COURT/DITTON PARK  ,  SLOUGH

HOW DID WASTE SO TOXIC IT WOULD LEAVE THE LAND AND THE PLAY AREA so contaminated it was the subject of numerous reports.

Discovered when the Olympic s 2012 building contractors did a preliminary groundwork study..

Two children’s play areas either end of the park..Both Contaminated ?

  • 21st May 1961 ,, Hawker Siddley Nuclear Power Company’s Jason Argo naught Reactors  factory destroyed by fire. (located Langley Slough SL3)
  • Waste disposed of in 1961-62? (national archive records ) Pre 1963 disposal of radioactive waste regulations.. Much prepertedly disposed of in a  local Tip Somewhere in,, Upton Court Park. Adjacent to Castle view Development field?
  • 1963 disposal of radioactive substances act.
  • 1990’s Ditton Park  (MOD site till  late 80’s) .. where watts Invented radar. (located Langley Slough SL3) Adjacent to Castle view Development field.
  • 1997 Ford sell old Reactor site. (various docs on the clean up reports etc. published)
  • 2006 re-develop existing  Colnbrook. clinical incinerator to new mass facility.
  • 21/9/2009  Slough council  give permission  to sell part of park to enable Castle View Development   Green Belt  parkland. and creation of Bunds in a meeting from which press and public are partially banned?
  • Nov 2009 Council  Allow Planning for 300 houses on Castlview Field site. 19th application over 30 years .. all previous ones stopped!
  • Nov 2009 mysterious “BUNDS” appear. Huge piles of ???  not   Harmless RUBBLE!!!
  • Nov 2009 Whats are these “Bunds”..  questions asked???
  • 2010  reports upgrading Upton’s  parks children’s play areas  for Olympics.  BUNDS and play area CONDEMMED .. TOXIC.
  • 2010- Present .. numerous ongoing attempts to halt development.
  • MARCH 2013 announced building to commence July 2013.

CHILDRENS PLAY AREAS  WERE TOO CONTAMINTED TO UPGRADE. area along side CONTENCIOUS CASTLEVIEW .. ex  GREENBELT new DEVELOPMENT!  was CONDEMENED AS TO TOXIC FOR HUMAN CONTACT.  Near both  a nursery  schools  .Has been remediated?

https://www.slough.gov.uk/moderngov/mgAi.aspx?ID=14349

Category A Assets (Assets that are likely to stay operational)

R&R 8479 SLOUGH RUGBY CLUB LAND, UPTON COURT PARK Let to Slough Rugby Club a Letting

Upton court park for the duration of the 2012  Olympics serving as the park and ride for the Dorney rowing lake.. affording the VIP guests excellent views of the castle .  a Labour council elected on social promises?  (numerous rotten borough scandals).

Upton Court Park .. Ajacent to Ditton Park (Manors of Ditton Upton date back to Domesday book, & yes William Hershel discovered Uranus  (the planet Uranium Named after) in Upton Parish when most of Slough was still a bog.

Colnbrook (SL3)  (Slough Unitary Authority) /Heathrow T5

SLOUGH – An X? anti NUCLEAR TOWN & UNITARY AUTHORITY. MASS POPULATED and developed BY THE G.L.C . developments of the 50’s and 60’s.

ONCE LIKE DESTINED TO BECOME BRITAINS NUCLEAR SHOWTOWN..