Long story short, looking to buy a house up by Stafford Common. Searches came back with high risk of ground instability.
Some amateur Google sleuthing and I discovered the old Stafford Salt and Alkali company and the massive amounts of brine taken out from under the ground around there, halted in 1970.
This forum came up in search results too with a thread on this from 2009. So it's time to raise a dead horse for a fresh beating. I've not managed to find any stories of recent subsidence in the area or any damage and the house we're looking at was built in 1998.
Anyone heard tell or know of anyone/any stories of any ongoing problems from all this salt extraction?
One would assume this would all be settled by now. Especially if building works were approved in 1998 (though regs may have changed). Obviously we'd bring in a surveyor and we're digging deeper with Landmark's searches (pun intended) but you can't beat a good bit of local knowledge and anecdotes to put the fear of god into you!
Some amateur Google sleuthing and I discovered the old Stafford Salt and Alkali company and the massive amounts of brine taken out from under the ground around there, halted in 1970.
This forum came up in search results too with a thread on this from 2009. So it's time to raise a dead horse for a fresh beating. I've not managed to find any stories of recent subsidence in the area or any damage and the house we're looking at was built in 1998.
Anyone heard tell or know of anyone/any stories of any ongoing problems from all this salt extraction?
One would assume this would all be settled by now. Especially if building works were approved in 1998 (though regs may have changed). Obviously we'd bring in a surveyor and we're digging deeper with Landmark's searches (pun intended) but you can't beat a good bit of local knowledge and anecdotes to put the fear of god into you!