What are the dangers of coastal erosion? As an island nation, we are rightly proud of our coastline. Our majestic cliffs, estuaries, sand and shingle beaches are a fundamental part of our landscape and our national identity. It is all the more distressing then, when we realise that this cherished identity is being rubbed away...
The Jurassic coastline of Dorset was yesterday reaching the national headlines this time, it was not due to a rare find of ancient fossils but due to a substantial landslide and rockfall. Incredible images of the extent of the landslip and rockfall can be seen in this BBC news piece1. Two sections of the cliffs...
Covehithe is a small village in East Suffolk, located on the North Sea coast between the more well known towns of Lowestoft and Southwold. I had never heard of Covehithe until today when I was sent a YouTube video showing the damaging effects coastal erosion is having on this quaint village. Everyone says a picture...
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Coastal erosion is a hot topic at the moment, but it is nothing new. Groundsure have been thinking about coastal erosion for a long time; back in 2015 our Head of Product Development, Dominic Tubb, wrote an interesting piece on coastal retreat at Birling Gap utilising our high resolution historical mapping. Fast forward to today,...
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...
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...
Mining and stability covered in every transaction. Why take the risk? Historic mining and ground stability affects properties across the country – your clients’ transactions need protecting. Did you know that over 60 minerals have been mined, quarried and extracted at some point in the UK and affect all regions? These fall into five broad...