Introduction: Background -- The Board's approach -- An overview of the land use planning system around major hazard sites: What we see -- What we propose -- What we consider to be the benefits -- What needs to be done?

Part 1 - Improving the organisation of the land use planning system around major hazard sites: a more integrated system -- Societal risk -- Roles, contributions and collaboration -- Conclusion -- Economic considerations -- Public understanding

Part 2 - Risk assessment and other technical issues: risk analysis techniques for establishing land use planning zones -- Evolution of analysis techniques -- Consistency and potential improvements -- A preferred way forward in reaching planning decisions -- Estimating consequences of an event -- Reliability of engineered systems -- Roles of the site operator and the competent authority -- Consented quantities -- Existing and new developments -- Technical issues relating to societal risk -- Applying land use planning controls to gasoline pipelines -- Public understanding -- Local planning authority resources -- Application to major hazard sites -- Implementation and priorities

Annexes: terms of reference -- Members of the independent board -- The COMAH regulatory regime -- Planning history of Buncefield site and neighbouring developments -- Hazard and risk and the application of QRA and 'dangerous dose or worse' to land use planning around major hazard sites -- Development of risk criteria for use in land use planning -- The Dutch land use planning system -- Harm criteria used in risk assessment -- HSE's fundamental review of its role in land use planning -- Summary of work commissioned of DNV by MIIB to develop an illustrative risk-based approach to land use planning around flammable storage sites

Report presents a series of in-depth recommendations into land use planning and the control of risk around major hazard sites based upon the findings of the investigative reports into the Buncefield explosion published to date.