Coal Mining Risk Assessment

If your site lies within a Coal Mining Reporting Area, planning requires a Coal Mining Risk Assessment (CMRA). We take a staged, pragmatic approach — only recommending intrusive works where there’s a clear reason to do so.

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Step 1: Desk-Based Coal Mining Risk Assessment

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Low-cost, planning-ready insight.

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✔ We assess historical mining data, Coal Authority records, and geological maps.
✔ We identify risks such as shallow mine workings, mine entries, or recorded subsidence.
✔ Where risk is low or absent, no intrusive works are needed — saving you time and money.
✔ We provide a clear, planning-compliant report with plain-English conclusions.

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Often, this is all that’s needed to satisfy planning.

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Step 2: Intrusive Investigation (If Required)

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Targeted ground investigation, only where justified.

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If the desk-based assessment highlights a credible risk, we’ll advise on focused, cost-effective investigation such as:

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✔ Rotary boreholes to confirm or rule out shallow workings

✔ Positional confirmation of mine shafts

✔ Ground stability assessment and recomendations for remdial measures (if required)

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We’ll design the scope around your site layout and planning constraints — no unnecessary work, no wasted spend.