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Oh my days. Ive owned several houses in various coalfields. Your really over thinking this. There is no risk !. Houses built round here are built on the pit yards with treated mine shafts around 700 meters deep. No problems
100s of mine shafts and tunnels which dont present any issue.
So you actually dont know what your talking about and getting spooked for no reason.0 -
Here's the Coal Authority's map of north Glasgow, each red cross is an old mineshaft (and those are just the ones they have records of). If nobody was happy to live within a half mile radius of a mineshaft, there wouldn't be many people left in Glasgow (or most of Lanarkshire or Ayrshire).PoGee said:Glasgow North
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A coalfield isn’t a field with a mineshaft in it. It can be most of a county.Fashion on the Ration
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IndeedSarahspangles said:A coalfield isn’t a field with a mineshaft in it. It can be most of a county.
Ie the durham coalfield..0 -
The majority of Yorkshire is built on a "coal field" Plenty of people live there.2
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When I was selling my house, in North West England, I had a FTB offer on the house, and then duly pull out of the sale when she became aware the house was built on an old coal field.
She lived with her parents at the time. Obviously the sales memo showed her parents address. It was about 0.8 mile up the road and was actually built on the same coal field.
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Some people are just nieve. FTBs seem to be worsewarwick2001 said:When I was selling my house, in North West England, I had a FTB offer on the house, and then duly pull out of the sale when she became aware the house was built on an old coal field.
She lived with her parents at the time. Obviously the sales memo showed her parents address. It was about 0.8 mile up the road and was actually built on the same coal field.
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Well of course they are - by their very nature, FTBs have no knowledge or experience in buying property, and in many cases neither do they know the things they should be worrying about, and those that they shouldn't!Grizebeck said:
Some people are just nieve. FTBs seem to be worsewarwick2001 said:When I was selling my house, in North West England, I had a FTB offer on the house, and then duly pull out of the sale when she became aware the house was built on an old coal field.
She lived with her parents at the time. Obviously the sales memo showed her parents address. It was about 0.8 mile up the road and was actually built on the same coal field.
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Putting the coal mine shaft aside, would you buy a property where there had been a fairly recent sink-hole just a 30 second walk from the front door?0
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