Identity area
Reference code
GB 249 CPSG/2/1/1
Title
Public inquiry into environmental asbestos pollution at Clydebank
Date(s)
- 1980-1982 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 folder
Paper including colour photographs
Context area
Name of creator
Name of creator
Name of creator
(1978-c.1989)
Name of creator
Archival history
From a green folder inscribed “Clydebank District Council / Dalmuir Asbestos Tip, Clydebank”
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Correspondence and papers 1980-1982 chiefly re the environmental dangers posed by the former site of Turner Asbestos Cement (TAC) Co Ltd, Dalmuir. Includes:
- colour photographs of the site
- correspondence with solicitors re Clydebank District Council v. Monaville Estates Limited
- correspondence with solicitors re former workers at TAC
- correspondence with the Sheriff's Office, HSE representatives and other occupational health experts, the Director of Environmental Services of Clydebank District Council, the Ministry for Home Affairs and the Environment (Edinburgh), MPs, the Scottish Civic Trust
- minutes of meetings between G E Rushworth and members of North Mountblow Community Council
- photocopies from a scientific paper on asbestos in Scotland and the final report of the HSC's Advisory Committee on Asbestos (ACA) (the Simpson Committee) published in October 1979
In August 1980, the Cancer Prevention Society called for a public inquiry into the asbestos waste tip at the former site of TAC Ltd, by then owned by Monaville Estates Ltd.
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Conditions governing access
No access restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English