Guidance

Pre-application advice for developing on the coalfield

A service to ensure you consider any associated risks of historical coal mining for proposals within the Development High Risk Area.

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The Coal Authority’s pre-application advice service helps ensure that any risks from coal mining legacy are considered throughout the planning, design and implementation of a project.

View details about the Development High Risk Area and Coal Mining Risk Assessments.

Coal Authority pre-application advice service

Coal Authority
200 Lichfield Lane
Mansfield
Nottinghamshire
NG18 4RG

Email planningadvice@coal.gov.uk

Telephone 01623 637119

Updates to this page

Published 19 September 2019
Last updated 14 August 2024 + show all updates
  1. Details added about how we operate the service and about how we calculate the fee.

  2. Non-statutory pre-application advice service is temporarily not available.

  3. Section 1 "What we need to know – information requirements" has been updated to reflect Coal Authority Technical Guidance Note TGN02/2021

  4. Information added relating to the Terms of Service

  5. First published.

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