is anyone else following the Coalsnaughton situation?

[photobilly]

Seems to be a weighted system whereby the development company, who aren't liable for subsidence remediation (unless risk assesments/mitigation have been shodily done), gets the green light from the council, who also aren't liable. Liability for making it right is with central government (via the Mining Remediation Authority, under the Coal Mining Subsidence Act 1991) So the two parties actually deciding whether to build on a known coalfield, the company proposing it and the council approving it, both get to weigh housing targets and profit against a risk that, if it materialises, someone else entirely pays for - That collectively being us.

Yeah make it the tax payers problem. That's the problem when there's nobody to hold accountable.

 

[robnorthwales]

Yeah make it the tax payers problem. That's the problem when there's nobody to hold accountable.

Surely there must be professional insurance in place from the company doing the grouting/investigation work ?

I'd be astonished if not

Even if a company was disbanded by now, the policy in place at the time would still cover work done at that time

 

[BertyBasset]

I beleive the company or contractor would have to be negligent to be liable and for a claim against insurer to be triggered. If they've had advice to do some grouting based on known mine workings, and it's collapsed due to unrecored workings (which I guess would normally be the case), then it's public money to the resuce. Probably much more to it than that. Probably open season for the lawyers.

 

[alanw]

Residents of two streets in a Clackmannanshire village facing mining subsidence have been told their homes will have to be demolished

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Homeowners will be offered compensation payments but some of those who attended the meetings told BBC Scotland News there was uncertainty about how much they would receive.

Two streets to be demolished in mining subsidence village of Coalsnaughton

More than 250 residents of the former mining village of Coalsnaughton have been forced to leave their homes since ground movement was detected in May.

www.bbc.co.uk