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Abandoned Mines Screening Layer for Planning and Developments in Northern Ireland

The exploitation of natural resources by underground mining commenced in Northern Ireland about 300 years ago and has in some areas left a legacy of surface instability above disused workings for coal, salt and other minerals. The existence of abandoned mine workings is a significant consideration in relation to planning and environmental protection.



Abandoned mines, comprising trial pits, shafts, adits, and underground workings, occur across Northern Ireland. The responsibility for these Abandoned Mines rests with the Department for the Economy (DfE). The Geological Survey of Northern Ireland monitor these workings for the DfE.



The Abandoned Mines Database contains over 2000 trial pits, shafts, adits, and collapses. These, along with mine plans showing the extent of the underground workings, have been used to create this layer that identifies areas where the GSNI and DfE should be consulted for Planning Applications.



This layer is made available to the Northern Ireland Planning Portals, local councils and developers to assist in the identification of developments and planning applications in areas in close proximity to recorded historical mine workings.



This layer is accompanied by guidance on development in areas of abandoned mines ( https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/gsni/AbandonedMinesGuidance.pdf). This document also contains guidance on the production of a Mine Risk Assessment report and exemptions where a Mine Risk Assessment is not required e.g. minor works to an existing dwelling.



A guidance document for planners on consulting with the GSNI is also available ( https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/gsni/ConsultingGSNI.pdf).



Mine plans that are held by the GSNI/DfE showing the extent of workings can be viewed in the Registered Collection of Mine Plans ( https://gsni-data.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/baae8ba1-2d73-4dff-90fc-f52d426d1701) and many are available to view online using the links provided.



For more information on Abandoned Mines in Northern Ireland see: https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/abandoned-mines.

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Date (Creation)
2023-04-25
Citation identifier
https://gsni-data.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/resources/1133c7a8-d2b2-4ec7-a1ed-bbf0864e2b37
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Geological Survey of Northern Ireland

gsni@economy-ni.gov.uk

Publisher
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Geological Survey of Northern Ireland

gsni@economy-ni.gov.uk

Custodian

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Geology

Keywords
  • Planning

  • Abandoned Mines

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
INSPIRE: no limitations
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Available under the Open Government Licence: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ We request that you acknowledge that the resource contains Geological Survey of Northern Ireland materials provided under the Open Government Licence.
Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
250000
Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Code
NIR
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Begin date
1694-01-01
End date
2023-04-25
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:29902
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:4258
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3857
Distribution format
Name Version

OGC Geopackage

1.2.1

ESRI Geodatabase

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/gsni/AbandonedMinesGuidance.pdf

Abandoned Mines Guidance Document

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/gsni/ConsultingGSNI.pdf

Consulting GSNI: A Guide for Planners

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

https://gsni-data.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/api/records/1133c7a8-d2b2-4ec7-a1ed-bbf0864e2b37/attachments/AbandonedMinesScreeningLayer.gpkg

AbandonedMinesScreeningLayer.gpkg

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

https://gsni-data.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/api/records/1133c7a8-d2b2-4ec7-a1ed-bbf0864e2b37/attachments/AbandonedMinesScreeningLayer.gdb.zip

AbandonedMinesScreeningLayer.gdb.zip

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Title
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Pass
No
Statement

This dataset has been derived from the point locations of trial pits, shafts, and adits and the polygon extents of underground workings derived from mine plans. The input features have been buffered: 100m for point locations; 20m for digitized polygons e.g. underground workings. These features are then dissolved to create a single polygon that will identify whether the GSNI should be consulted in regard to planning and development.



The attribute table contains:

- the dataset version,

- the date of release,

- the reason consultation is required

- a link to the Abandoned Mine Guidance Document,

- a link to the Consulting GSNI Guidance Document, and

- a link to the metadata in the GSNI Data Portal

Source
  • Registered Collection of Mine Plans in Northern Ireland
  • Northern Ireland Abandoned Mines Database
  • Index to Abandoned Mines in Northern Ireland

Metadata

File identifier
1133c7a8-d2b2-4ec7-a1ed-bbf0864e2b37 XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2023-11-08T08:32:41
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Geological Survey of Northern Ireland

gsni@economy-ni.gov.uk

Point of contact
 
 

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology


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