Suppose you are about to buy a home. In the documentation provided to you by the selling broker, you will also come across cadastral information. This will be in the form of a “Cadastral Notice” (also called “property information” or “cadastral extract”). This looks like this .
Now that cadastral information may show that the municipality wants a soil test to be done. At that point, alarm bells should ring with you. The moment a municipality or some other form of “competent authority” prescribes that a soil investigation must take place, you can almost already assume that there is (serious) contamination there in the soil. What you can do is the following:
- Inquire directly with the municipality (or if they are not the competent authority do so with the responsible environmental department) what is the reason/reason they want soil testing to take place. Based on that answer, you can already determine much better what the risks are.
- Ask that same municipality or environmental service to send you any information about soil quality that is known to them about that particular address or parcel of land.
- Have (preferably at the seller’s expense) an exploratory soil survey conducted on that parcel and evaluate the results of that survey with an expert.
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