• Reference
    PL/NIX1/3
  • Title
    Correspondence file
  • Date free text
    Oct 1985-Apr 1988
  • Production date
    From: 1985 To: 1988
  • Scope and Content
    Includes: - BAND evidence and NIREX response; - statement on the four NIREX sites; - notes of meeting with SoS; - support for BCC position from Northants and Herts County Councils; - Instructions to Counsel to advise on legality of BCC’s expenditure on campaign opposing NIREX in the light of LGA 1986; - Counsel’s Advice; - amendments to County Structure Plan opposing nuclear dumping; - SoS’s refusal to authorise revised County Structure Plan; - correspondence with BAND; - correspondence between BAND and AWA; - notes of lecture on US Radioactive Waste Policy; - correspondence with Nuclear Free Zones National Steering Committee; - letter from SoS re County Councils Coalition [see introduction] report on radioactive waste disposal in Europe; - ERL response to letter; - NIREX letter to SoS announcing abandonment of shallow repository scheme nationally; - SoS response to NIREX and announcement to House of Commons; - BOND statement re abandonment of scheme; - correspondence with Western Isles Island Council re possible dumping by NIREX there; - Labour Party press release re campaign against NIREX; - BCC “No to NIREX” document; - two reports of NIREX site investigation at Elstow.
  • Level of description
    file