newGeoSure Insurance Product: Natural Ground Movement Risk for Great Britain

newGeoSure Insurance Product version 8 2018.3 provides a derived risk assessment for six natural ground movement hazards across Great Britain. The British Geological Survey created this dataset by evaluating landslides, shrink-swell clays, and other hazards using statistical analysis and expert techniques, linking results to a biannually updated postcode database. This product is designed for use at a 1:50,000 scale, offering 50-meter ground resolution.

Use Cases

• Identifying property-level insurance risk based on the combined evaluation of six geohazards.
• Estimating susceptibility to ground movement for low-rise buildings using the derived postcode-linked data.
• Conducting regional risk analysis for Great Britain based on the national coverage and 50-meter resolution.

Strengths

• Covers six specific geohazards: landslides, shrink-swell clays, soluble rocks, running sands, compressible ground, and collapsible deposits.
• Provides national coverage across Great Britain at a 1:50,000 scale with 50-meter resolution.
• Derived product is linked to a postcode database updated biannually with Ordnance Survey data.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset has been superseded, indicating it may not be the current version.

Provenance

Source

British Geological Survey (BGS)

Collection Method

Hazards evaluated using a series of processes including statistical analyses and expert elicitation techniques.

Time Range

Version 2018.3, based on the postcode database update.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 08:41:09.181822; freshness should be verified.

Geography

National coverage across Great Britain (not including the Isle of Man).