If you are planning a building project, you can have your plot of land surveyed in advance by the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service. This service uses aerial photographs to check whether your plot is free of explosive ordnance. The aerial photographs were taken during the Second World War by the American and British air forces.

If the analysis of the aerial photographs raises a suspicion that there may be unexploded ordnance on the site, or if such ordnance is suspected or found there, you must have it properly removed.

The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service is responsible for this. It carries out the

• defusing of explosive ordnance,
• transport of recovered munitions and
• destruction of ordnance, including the recycling of the material resulting from this process.

The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service provides advice on suspected explosive ordnance, as well as carrying out the search for and recovery of such ordnance, within the limits of its capacity and subject to full reimbursement of costs by the client. If the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service is unable to carry out this work, you must commission private companies to do so.