UK Coal Mining Legal Notices with Location and Attributes

Legal notices issued to permit coal mining operations in areas without an existing lease, as recorded by the Mining Remediation Authority. The dataset includes location information and a number of attributes for each notice. The data was last updated on April 14, 2026.

Use Cases

• Map the spatial distribution of permitted coal mining activities based on location data.
• Analyze regulatory patterns and conditions for mining operations based on notice attributes.
• Support environmental impact assessments by identifying areas subject to mining notices.
• Study the transition of regulatory bodies from the Coal Authority to the Mining Remediation Authority.

Strengths

• Sourced from the authoritative UK Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority).
• Includes explicit location data for geospatial analysis.
• Data was updated in April 2026, suggesting recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and temporal coverage are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and regulatory bias inherent to UK-specific sources.

Provenance

Source

Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority)

Collection Method

Extracted from official records held by the authority.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-14 15:12:07.116957

Geography

United Kingdom, likely focused on areas with coal reserves.