What is a coal mining risk assessment?

What is a coal mining risk assessment?

Coal Mining Risk Assessments identify site specific coal mining risks and set out the proposed mitigation strategy to show that the site can be made safe and stable for the proposed development. The CMRA is a desk study report based on a Coal Mining Report and other available maps & plans.

What is a Coal Authority search?

The Coal Authority Report reveals information regarding any past, present and future mining and highlights any environmental and stability risks which could affect the property. The search also provides details of any subsidence remediation claims, shaft locations, reported hazards and mine gas emissions.

What is a coal referral area?

The Coal Mining Development Referral Areas contain a range of specific mining legacy risks to the surface, including mine entries; shallow coal workings; workable coal seam outcrops; mine gas sites and areas; recorded coal mining related hazards; geological features; and previous surface mining sites.

What does the Coal Authority do?

The Coal Authority manages the effects of past coal mining, including subsidence damage claims which are not the responsibility of licensed coal mine operators. It deals with mine water pollution and other mining legacy issues.

What is a coal mining interpretive report?

This report provides additional information when mine entries have been revealed in the initial search. The Interpretive Report provides additional information that assists in the decision making process.

What is a development high risk area?

Development High Risk areas are designated when there are hazards that could affect a new development, which include: geological features, such as fissures and break line. mine entries with potential zones of influence. surface hazards.

What is a coal claim?

You may be able to claim for ‘subsidence’ (sinking) damage caused by coal mining, for example: structural damage to your house, which can start with cracked plaster and sticking doors. ground collapse or other damage to your land.

What is a coal field?

Definition of coalfield : a region rich in coal deposits.

Where is the Coal Authority based?

200 Lichfield Lane, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Coal Authority

Who funds the Coal Authority?

Coal Authority is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy.

How long does a mine entry interpretive report?

Providing the information we have been given is correct, we return the majority of our reports within 24 hours. During busy periods it may take up to 72 hours. If you draw the report boundary yourself, then, in most cases, reports are issued almost instantly.

What is shallow coal mining?

Shallow coal mining is defined as lying at a depth of up to 10 x the thickness of coal seam extraction down to a maximum depth of 30 metres (30 metres is the height of a 10 storey building).