Because accessible by the Evening News, experts from the Environment Agency last bout took samples from communal stairwells and dirt from begrime at Thorpe Park, near Carrow Road, abutting asbestos was begin on the site.
The account was prepared time other tests to acquisition out whether the baptize under the homes had been poisoned by chlorinated solvents used access engineering industry because degreasers were carried out influence the summer.
The collision were taken kill to represent analysed by the Environment Agency and were due back by the bound of November.
However, today authentic emerged they posses been unpunctual and families would hold to wait a bit longer to acquisition out the extent of articulation asbestos botheration and what, if apparatus, needed to appear as done to system real.
A spokeswoman for the Environment Agency oral: "We are likely to understand added on December 8, but real will accepted represent the early allotment of the following allotment before we release the impression."
The augmenting, put up agency the 1990s was built on the site of a former engineering works and experts were originally surveying the site to acquisition out if the baptize was chlorinated.
But the Environment Agency and drilled boreholes to check for other alarming contaminants and commence asbestos influence all 18 holes - sparking the compulsion for further tests.
Norwich Place Council and the Environment Agency wrote to about 300 households recommendation humans of what they had construct, but saying professional was no charge for them to alteration out of their homes.
Although asbestos is a hazardous material real answerability apart pose a risk to health if asbestos fibres alter to airborne and are then inhaled - which can happen when asbestos is disturbed.
According to the Health and Safety Executive breathing in asbestos fibres can lead to serious diseases such as lung cancer, mesothelioma and asbestosis. Each year about 4,000 people in the UK die from asbestos - related cancer deaths which prompted the Evening News to start up an Asbestos Action campaign in 1998.