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There has been a lot of speculation1, 2, 3 that the COVID-19 pandemic is leading to a reshaping of the property market, as it shifts away from the focus on cities and commuter belts, and moves towards more rural locations as people have proved quite conclusively that their job does not require them to be...
Groundsure GeoRisk reports utilise and visualise the latest National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping (NCERM) from the Environment Agency and National Resources Wales to show exactly which areas will be at risk in both the scenario where local coastal defences are funded and maintained and additionally if defences were not present, or unfunded and abandoned (a...
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: and Ground stability and Mining and Geo-risk. Living in a temperate climate as we do here in the UK, nothing else out...
The proposed changes to Planning Use Class Order are like marmite. Some like the opportunity to repurpose and redevelop unused commercial properties for residential use. Others will see it as a carte blanche for unregulated, poor quality development. In my mind it raises the question, what is planning for? Is it unnecessary bureaucracy, or does...
Mining and stability covered in every transaction – why take the risk? Groundsure is delighted to announce the launch (on Monday 7th September) of a new suite of ground stability and mining reports: and Created with Mining Searches UK (MSUK) – which Groundsure acquired in January this year – GeoRisk was developed following...
Shrink swell subsidence is by far the largest cause of natural subsidence insurance claims in the UK. Hot summers can see a surge in claims, with 10,000 claims for £64m recorded in the summer of 20181. Given that most policies have an excess of around £1,000 for subsidence claims, the expense and inconvenience involved in...
Mining Searches UK are the leading specialist in mining site investigation and reporting. We are continually innovating to ensure we can provide the most robust assessment for our clients. On a recent site, Gwallon Keas (200 house development) for Devonshire Homes, we have been using innovative 3D CAD plans for our site assessment. Take up...
The story starts around 360 million years ago in the Carboniferous period when dead plant matter in former wetlands, now known also as coal forests, decayed, accumulating enormous deposits of peat, which over time, changed to coal. Fast forward to 12,000 years ago and we see the earliest evidence of coal extraction, but it wasn’t...
There are a number of potential new mining prospects appearing in Cornwall, which is reminiscent of the early prospecting days which created a lot of Cornwall’s wealth. Centuries later this mining legacy became the focus of the mining risk assessment businesses we see today (as well as forming the backdrop for enthralling storylines in popular...