Environmental Advisory – Contaminated Land · Remediation · Environmental Permitting

Making ground developable, enabling sustainable construction and keeping permitted facilities compliant.

Twenty-five years in site investigation, remediation, materials management, and the environmental permitting and compliance that keeps regulated facilities on the right side of the Environment Agency. I take on a small number of engagements at a time, usually by referral.

Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) Fellow, Geological Society (FGS) 25+ years' experience CSCS · SSSTS
What I do

End-to-end support, from desk study to regulator sign-off

Engaged directly by clients or embedded within larger project teams — equally at home writing a risk assessment at a desk or standing on a live earthworks site keeping the environmental compliance watertight.

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Investigation & risk assessment

Phase 1 desk studies through to intrusive Phase 2 investigation, quantitative human health and controlled waters risk assessment.

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Remediation & validation

Options appraisal, remediation strategy and design, on-site delivery oversight and the validation reporting that closes it out.

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Site-based compliance

Environmental clerk of works on live remediation and earthworks — RAMS, audits, monitoring and Environment Agency liaison.

Selected work

A quarter-century across some of the UK's most demanding sites.

From a £7bn London regeneration on former landfill to nuclear new-build enabling works on the Suffolk coast.

How I work

Engaged directly, and involved throughout.

You deal with the person doing the work — not a team assembled around it. I keep a small number of engagements at a time, so each one has my proper attention.

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Broad technical expertise

Contaminated land, remediation, permitting, waste, ground gas and environmental due diligence under one roof — so you're not stitching three consultants together to cover one site.

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Attention to detail

The forensic care that gets reports accepted first time and stands up to regulator scrutiny — the difference between a permit surrendered or a planning condition discharged, and a job that drags on.

Responsive

A direct line to the person actually doing the work. Calls returned, and deadlines met.

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Continually developing

Chartered and committed to ongoing CPD — current on LCRM 2025, asbestos in soil and the latest guidance, so your project gets today's best practice.

From a single report to a whole programme.

A one-off site condition report, or an embedded compliance role for the length of a job. Tell me what you have, and I'll tell you honestly whether it's a job for me.

Services

What I do

Engaged by the day, by the project, or embedded within a team as a named specialist. The areas below are where I’m most useful.

Not sure it’s a job for me?

Tell me about the site and the programme — I'll tell you straight where I can help and where you'd be better served elsewhere.

Project experience

A track record across regeneration, energy and infrastructure

A selection of named projects spanning power station and gasworks remediation, urban regeneration on former landfill, nuclear new-build enabling works and permit compliance for waste and landfill operators.

About Jeremy

25 years making complicated ground developable

I'm a Chartered Environmentalist and Fellow of the Geological Society with over 25 years in contaminated land investigation, remediation, waste management and environmental permitting. Since 2019 I've run my own practice, Jeremy Head Environmental Consulting Ltd, working directly for clients and as a named consultant within larger project teams.

My career has taken in former power station sites, gasworks, landfills, quarries, fuel sites, schools, hospitals and industrial facilities — as a consulting project manager, site investigation specialist, remediation engineer and contaminated land officer. That range means I can move between the technical detail of a risk assessment and the practical realities of a live earthworks site.

Career history

Jeremy Head Environmental Consulting Ltd — Director2019 – present
SLR Consulting Ltd — Associate Consultant2015
URS (AECOM) Ltd — BP Portfolio Manager2012
ARCADIS UK Ltd — ExxonMobil / ABB Project Manager2008
Temple Group Ltd — Senior Consultant2005
Mayer Environmental Ltd — Environmental Consultant1999

Accreditations & skills

  • Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv)
  • Fellow, Geological Society of London (FGS)
  • Member, Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES)
  • BSc (Hons) Environmental Geoscience, University of Sheffield — 2:1
  • CSCS card holder
  • SSSTS — Site Supervisor Safety Training Scheme
  • CITB Site Safety Plus
  • CIRIA Asbestos in Soil & Made Ground — Non-Licensed Work
  • First Aid at Work (valid to Dec 2028)
Insights

Notes from the field

Occasional, practical pieces on contaminated land, remediation and site compliance — written for the contractors and developers who have to get it built.

Contact

Enquiries

Based near Bury St Edmunds, working across Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and nationwide. I take on a limited number of engagements; if yours is something I might help with, send a short note and I’ll get back to you — though if you need a more immediate response, you could always give me a call.

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    Phone07980 698 683
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    Emailj@jeremyhead.co.uk
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    Based inBury St Edmunds, Suffolk — covering East Anglia & the UK
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    CompanyJeremy Head Environmental Consulting Ltd

Enquiries are emailed straight to Jeremy.