The legal requirement to have an asbestos survey carried out applies to non-domestic properties. If you own or operate a non-domestic property such as an office, shop, or warehouse, an asbestos survey and management plan must be in place. For domestic properties, there is no legal requirement to have an asbestos survey.
Banff
Banff is a town in the Banff and Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Banff is situated on Banff Bay and faces the town of Macduff across the estuary of the River Banff is a former royal burgh, as well as is the county town of the historical region of Banffshire. Banff's very first castle was built to repel Viking invaders and also a charter of 1163 AD reveals that Malcolm IV was living there during that time. During this duration the community was a hectic trading centre in the "free hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, in spite of not having its very own harbour until 1775. The very first recorded Sheriff of Banff was Richard de Strathewan in 1264, and in 1372 Royal Burgh standing was given by King Robert II. By the 15th century Banff was among 3 major towns exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, together with Aberdeen and also Montrose. There was a large amount of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, as well as a few of the worst offenders were participants of the nobility. According to records kept by chronicler William Cramond, the tolbooth (courthouse as well as jail) of Banff was, in 1628, the site of a run-in in between Lord Banff and James Ogilvie, his loved one. Supposedly, he struck James Ogilvie upon the head with a baton throughout a court hearing. Twenty of his friends as well as fans then attacked Ogilvie with swords prior to chasing him right into the street as well as completing him off with a handgun shot. Banff and Macduff are divided by the valley of the River Deveron. This unforeseeable river was ultimately subjugated by the 7 curved bridge completed in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had actually been constructed in 1765, however was swept away in 1768. The old ferry was brought back into usage, till it was lost in a flooding in 1773. A public meeting was held in 1800 and passed a resolution for the building of a turnpike roadway in between Turiff as well as Banff as the existing roadway remained in a sad state of repair. Later on 19th century transportation renovations included the building of 2 train lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 and the Banff, Portsoy and also Strathisla Railway in 1859 which attached to the major Aberdeen to Inverness line. Throughout the 19th Century the Banff Fishery Area (comprising the ports from Crovie to Sandend) was important to the herring trade, with production peaking in 1853 at greater than sixty-thousand barrels, of which almost thirty-four thousand were exported, nevertheless by 1912 production had actually decreased to just over 8 thousand barrels. Currently, the languages talked in the community and also in its vicinity often tend to be the Doric language of Scots, and English.
