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Mining Under Metroland – London’s Chalk Mines and Property Risk
London is perhaps the best example of where a landscape has been built over for millennia, but would you associate chalk mining as a potential risk to London Property? As our capital grew, it concealed many stories of its past, chalk mining being one of them. It is easy to look at the web of […]
Our leading product expert Dominic Tubb talks ground stability and mining: GeoRisk
Here Dominic Tubb, Head of Product, gives us an interesting insight in to just why you and your clients should be buying a GeoRisk or a GeoRisk + report. Ground stability and Mining and Geo-risk. Living in a temperate climate as we do here in the UK, nothing else out there has quite the same potential for catastrophic […]
Riders on the storm: Flood forecasting and what can be done
After the wettest February on record, storm Ciara, Dennis and Jorge have caused further damage, flooding and devastation across the UK, this winter. The flooding has already caused widespread travel chaos, left over 3000 homes flooded, forcing thousands more to evacuate, and sadly costing the lives of 5 people. On the 17th of February, there […]
Christmas flooding and its effect on Groundwater
The Friday before Christmas is one of the busiest travel days of the year as hundreds of thousands of people frantically try and return home with bags full of presents and minds full of Christmas cheer. However, this festive season, this annual migration was disrupted because of excessive flooding which hit Sussex and the South […]
Flooding: the ten most common questions answered
The Environment Agency and British Red Cross are urging younger people specifically to learn how to look after themselves and their communities in times of flooding. While their joint report highlights that young people are the most at risk in a flood, at Groundsure we want everyone to be aware of the risks associated with flooding, the […]
Natural Flood Defences
In this blog, Emilie Denyer, an environmental consultant at Groundsure, discusses flood management and natural flood defences. If you have any questions about this blog, you can contact the residential consultancy team at residential@groundsure.com. Of the 28 million homes in the UK, over 5 million are at risk of flooding from coastal, river, and surface water […]
Local authorities permitting development in flood prone areas named
Original research by leading environmental data company Groundsure highlights councils approving housing developments on flood plains – even when alternatives appear to be available New research (1) has revealed the top 10 English local authorities that are allowing building in previously undeveloped flood prone areas (2), with the top four being in the South East. […]
Flood Defences Affecting Property
What are flood defences? Flood defences seek to reduce the risk of flooding, to safeguard life, protect property, sustain economic activity and protect the natural environment. Flood defences are designed to protect against flood events of a particular magnitude, expressed as risk in any one year. The Environment Agency is responsible for all matters relating […]
Groundsure launches enhanced free data viewer for site environmental appraisal
The UK’s leading environmental data provider enables land consultancy professionals with a clear, simple way to understand potential site issues. We are pleased to announce that we have upgraded groundsure.io, our open access digital intelligence platform for geo-environmental professionals to be able to get an upfront overview of the key risks or impacts that could […]
Coprolite: Mining for Poo in Cambridge
In our latest blog, we look at one of the more curious and lesser known resources mined from the ground in a part of East Anglia that you would least expect. Thanks to our dinosaur ancestors, we found a vital answer to a major 19th Century food issue, whose mining legacy is still picked […]