A screening report gets read in a hurry. Someone wants to know whether a site has a problem, why, and where to look next. Over the last couple of weeks I've made three changes to GeoScreen reports aimed at exactly that: getting from the rating to the evidence behind it, and from the report to
Until now, every GeoScreen report has started from a single point. You type an address or a grid reference, drag the pin if it's in the wrong place, and the report searches outwards from there. That works for a house plot. It doesn't really work for a 20 hectare housing site, a solar farm or
GeoScreen now covers Scotland. You can order a report for any site in England, Wales or Scotland, at the same price, with the same hazard ratings and the same 18 figures. When we added Wales in the summer, most of the work was swapping data sources: Natural Resources Wales instead of the Environment Agency, Cadw
I'm based in County Durham, so mining legacy comes up a lot. Most of the deep pits closed decades ago, and the ground they left behind usually looks like any other field, playing field or housing estate. You'd never know it was there. It's one of the best-recorded ground risks we have, and it still
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