Republishing & Licence
We want this research used. If it helps a journalist, a resident, a researcher or another community understand what is happening at Hillhouse, take it. We ask one thing in return: credit.
The licence
The original content on this site, our writing, our analysis, and the graphics and maps we have made, is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
That means you may copy, republish, quote, adapt and build on it, including for commercial use, provided you:
- credit Hillhouse Watch, and
- link back to hillhousewatch.uk (or to the specific page), and
- indicate if you changed anything.
How to credit us
A simple line is enough. For example:
Research: Hillhouse Watch — hillhousewatch.uk
or, in running text:
…according to the community investigation project Hillhouse Watch (hillhousewatch.uk)…
If you are quoting a specific finding, a link to the article it came from helps your readers check it, and helps us.
What the licence does not cover
To be straight about the limits:
- Facts are free to everyone. Facts cannot be owned. You do not need our permission to report a figure or an event we have surfaced. Credit is courtesy and good practice, not a legal requirement for facts.
- The underlying public documents are not ours to license. The Environment Agency reports, council statements, WSP’s soil reports, Companies House filings and academic papers we draw on remain the copyright of their own authors. The licence above covers only our original expression, not those source documents.
- Third-party images used under their own terms are not covered by our licence.
For journalists
If you are working on a Hillhouse or PFAS story and want the underlying data, the source documents we have gathered, or an on-record comment, get in touch. We would rather the research reached more people, properly sourced, than sat here.
This page sets our standing position on reuse. If in doubt about a specific use, just ask.