European data defining areas with potential instability from historical coal mining operations. The dataset, produced by the Government Digital Service, is a composite of recorded features including mine entries, shallow workings, hazards, gas sites, fissures, and previous surface mining sites. It is intended to inform developers and planners to ensure new construction is safe and stable.
Use Cases
- Site risk assessment for new construction based on recorded coal mining features.
- Land asset management planning based on the composite map of mining-related hazards.
- Regulatory compliance checks for development proposals in high-risk zones.
- Historical mining impact analysis based on the legacy of coal mining operations.
Strengths
- Defines a specific, policy-relevant area for development safety.
- Integrates multiple recorded feature types (mine entries, workings, hazards, gas sites, fissures, previous sites).
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Government Digital Service
- Collection Method
- Compilation of recorded coal mining related features.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Likely covers regions with a legacy of coal mining operations in Europe.