Can anyone advise...

Within farming if you have asbestos sheets and you decide to upgrade sheds, can you bury it on your own premises and maintain a register of where it has been place?

A couple of years ago I had a discussion with HSE who advised if double bagged and location recorded this would be fine.

I can't find any legislation to suggest this is possible or not, any thoughts are welcome.

this is an EA area and not a HSE area [ I find it unusual that the HSE even talked about asbestos in this way] so speak to them and I would be surprised that this practice is acceptable

There is a chain of thought that argues that it is ultimately safer to securely bury material in the place it is currently located provided the LA registers the land area used as Contaminated. I have experience of the EA and LA accepting the practice on what was already a contaminated site. The decision also saved on valuable hazardous waste tip space as there was also fibrous material present within the soils around the site.

Both of the practices set out in these links I would condemn

1) The landowner was clearly undertaking work for gain with a view to selling the land for development. He failed to make any consultations prior to the act and deliberately and fraudulently misinformed his buyer

2) The notion that it could be crushed for farm roads is clearly a ridiculous idea as ultimately fibres will be released from the further crushed material. But many demolition contractors at the fly end of the scale do crush brick and ACM together in order to lose the tip charges and still take money from clients for proper disposal. Hence why you should view and check all transfer and consignment notes.

I am talking of properly registered contaminated land and the limitations that imposes.