UK Coal Mining Court Orders for Subsidence Compensation

Coal mining court orders issued by the UK High Court grant permission to work coal and set compensation terms for subsidence damage. The dataset is maintained by the Mining Remediation Authority, formerly the Coal Authority, and was last updated in April 2026. It includes a number of attributes for each court order based on the Authority's records.

Use Cases

• Mapping legal permissions for coal mining based on court order locations
• Analyzing compensation frameworks for subsidence damage mentioned in the description
• Tracking the regulatory history of specific mining sites based on court orders

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative Mining Remediation Authority.
• Records include attributes relating to the legal and compensatory provisions of each order.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to uk_data.

Provenance

Source

Mining Remediation Authority

Collection Method

Compiled from information held by the Authority on High Court orders.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-14 15:09:06.407587; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Parts of the United Kingdom where such orders were issued.