Land survey report shows moderate-high ground stability risk, how concerned should I be?

user1977

I'd be more concerned if the infill was under the property itself.

Have you checked local news etc for chat about any problems relating to this sort of thing? There was a former quarry near an old home of mine which blighted a whole street.

Woolsery

NibblyPig said:

Thanks for the replies. The map site linked above, I went to the location and clicked through all of the historic maps, none of them had any useful data on them, but I just went again and found that I had the wrong thing selected lol so this is the extent of what I could find, all the other maps were either too zoomed out or had nothing labelled.

1888-1913

I drew the red circle myself roughly where the house is.

1892-1914

1949-1972

Not really sure where to go from here then. Any thoughts?

I thought you were very fast off the mark with the various versions of the old maps! It took me much longer to get to grips with the options.

I'd say the limestone quarry is one of the better results you might get. Quarrying stone to burn with coal to make lime was a common practice and didn't usually involve tunnelling in the way coal mining did in the areas where I've lived.

Like surveyors, writers of reports like these want to cover all bases and there's a danger of interpreting them in too pessimistic a manner. Personally, from what I can see, I'd not be worried, but others may hold another view.