The Cheshire Brine Subsidence Compensation board has updated the content of the report and renamed it the Cheshire Salt Report
The new report will be produced by Groundsure and will indicate;
- Whether the property is situated within the Compensation District;
- Whether the property is within a Consultation Area prescribed by the Cheshire Brine Board under the provisions of section 38(1) of the 1952 Act;
- Whether a Notice of Damage has been filed in respect of the property and, if so, whether the claim was accepted and, if so, how the claim was discharged;
- Whether the claims in respect of the property have been commuted by a once and for all payment of compensation;
- Whether the compensation provisions of the 1952 and 1964 Acts would apply should the property be affected at some future date by subsidence due to brine pumping;
- Whether there is a known historical brine well or shaft within 20m;
- Whether recorded subsidence features are within 50m of the property;
- Whether the property is within 200m of a planning consent of a brine extraction by controlled pumping;
- Whether there any current or proposed uncontrolled brine pumping within 3kms of the property;
- Whether a property is in an area underlain by a historical salt mine;
- Whether the property is within an area designated to be within the GS7 Planning Policy Boundary;
- Whether there is planning consent for rock salt extraction by underground mining within 120m of the property.
For more details, or a sample report, please contact James Ferguson at james@x-presslegal.co.uk