A bid by a developer to buy a tract of seafront land on Canvey is likely to be refused.
Kings Park Homes wants to buy the open space between Kings residential park and Canvey Heights Country Park for "private open space purposes".
The site is currently vacant and is used for environmental monitoring to ensure the former refuse site next door is not contaminating surrounding land.
Council officers, however, are concerned that selling the land would prevent them from monitoring the site, potentially leaving them liabile if the contamination were to spread.
Kings Park Homes owner Jeff King said: "At the moment the land is just there and left to its own devices. We would like to manage and maintain it, as we have done in the past. We don't have any specific plans for the site at the moment, but I know that we won't get in anyone's way to make sure the land is safe from contamination."
Castle Point Council's asset management committee will consider whether to sell the land at its next meeting on July 21.
Published Wednesday July 14, 2004
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