SURVEY work to measure pollution on the town park site starts on 11 April.

Ground and water beneath the Gasworks and Talman sites have been polluted by years of gas production, and Environment and Public Services have commissioned a one-week geotechnical ground radar survey that starts on 11 April, followed by monitoring shallow holes around the site and a deep borehole test in the autumn.

The committee are holding a meeting at the Town Hall tomorrow to talk about the survey and arrangements for the car park, which will be disrupted during the course of the work.

Environment and Public Services vice-president Deputy Jerry Dorey said that the survey work would establish how the cyanide pollution left on the site by the gasworks could be dealt with.

Until they knew exactly what pollutants were present and how far they had spread, they would not know for sure how to clean up the site before potential development.

Deputy Dorey said that the committee had invited Andrew Le Quesne, who recently gave a public exhibition of his £30m plans for the town park site, to meet them and give a presentation.