GroundSure Review is ideal for use in commercial property acquisitions, associated funding arrangements and consideration of property suitability for inclusion within pension schemes.
The information in the report includes:
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Key features |
Why is this important? |
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Operational environmental risk assessment |
Groundsure's in-house team of environmental experts who specialise in commercial property, are able to provide a desktop assessment of ongoing contamination risk at the site |
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Optional planning applications |
Planning constraints inform about environmental and cultural designations in the area that could impact on planning proposals |
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Complete HS2 data |
Crossrail 1 and 2, HS2, active railways, underground and DLR could impact the use and enjoyment of the property |
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Groundsure's unique historical land use data, comprising 6,500 individually identified potentially contaminative land uses. |
Helps assess the risk of contaminated land. |
| Locations of historical tanks, garages, petrol filling stations and energy facilities. | Provides an indicator of the risk of contaminated land. |
| Environment Agency flooding and British Geological Survey groundwater flooding data. | Helps assess the risk of flooding to the land or property. |
| A summary of geology and natural hazards in the area. | Helps assess the risk of flooding or ground subsidence to the property. |
| The location of World Heritage Sites and Environmentally Sensitive Areas (eg SSSIs). | As these sites are usually protected from development it can be beneficial to live near to such a site. If there are plans to build or extend a property, it is essential to know if the property or site is close to one of these areas as it could significantly impact the likelihood of getting planning permission in the future. |
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Unique high pressure oil and gas pipeline data. |
A building proximity distance is often set stating the minimum distance recommended between the pipeline and any occupied building. The location of such pipelines can therefore affect development in the future. There can also be a risk of major accident if a high pressure pipeline was to fail. It is therefore important to be aware of the risk, although such incidents are extremely rare. |
| It contains all of the information in Groundsure Screening, but comes with a detailed assessment of risk as well as a review of all high detail mapping. | Additional risk assessment. |
