Groundsure Review

WHY CHOOSE REVIEW?

The Groundsure Review combines the most recent and detailed contamination and flood risk data to provide a comprehensive risk assessment, complete with ClimateIndex™ to ensure you are compliance-ready for any future lender requirements on climate risk. A navigation bar on every page, as well as section links accommodates easy navigation throughout the report.

Developed in conjunction with leading UK banks, it meets lending security compliance as well as satisfying The Law Society’s Practice Note on contaminated land and flood risk. It also supports the Law Society Conveyancing handbook guidance for ground stability and mining.

The consultants name and contact details that completed the report are provided on the front page gives easy access to Groundsure’s in-house environmental consultants to offer pragmatic and commercially focussed expert insight, deal-orientated recommendations, and guidance on next steps should any risks be identified.

WHO DOES REVIEW HELP?

Review is suitable for the following:

• Commercial
• Development sites
• Existing properties
• Nationwide
• Buyers
• Vendors
• Lenders

Review is not suitable for the following:

• Residential
• Specific areas
• Tenants

HOW DOES REVIEW WORK?

Analysing over 106 million data points, the Groundsure Review provides a detailed manual assessment of contaminated land risk, alongside a comprehensive review of all flood types, ground stability, radon, current and planned energy features, and transportation, planning constraints and optional 10 years of planning data.

A consultant will manually review high detail Ordnance Survey mapping to provide an expert opinion and are on hand to answer any questions you may have about the findings within the Review report.

It also clearly identifies potential forward climate risk impacts to the property within the ClimateIndex™ model, supporting your ESG compliance through better client card advisory for potential climate impacts to the land or property. Key transition risks from climate change impacts that could affect property decisions are covered including property-specific EPC ratings for all properties contained within the boundary with a comparison to others in the area, EPC assessor recommendations for energy improvements, guidance on commercial Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) and existing and proposed Net Zero goal policy changes.

WHAT DOES REVIEW REVEAL?

Designed to streamline workflows, enabling smart and faster decisions and saving time, it reveals:

• Comprehensive contaminated land assessment based including Groundsure’s National Brownfield Risk Model (NBRM), environmental permits, active and historic landfill and waste sites, and current industrial sites
• Review of ongoing contamination risk at the site
• Details on whether the site represents acceptable banking security from an environmental risk perspective
• Detailed flood risk assessment covering river, coastal and surface water flooding, and historic flood events. Higher flood risk results are manually assessed. Tailored advice is provided using Ordnance Survey NGD data in the presence of basements.
• Natural and non-natural ground stability screening including natural ground subsidence, cavities and non-coal mining
• Coal mining screening
• Radon risk assessment using Ordnance Survey NGD data and tailored advice given in the presence of basements
• Designated environmentally sensitive sites including green belt, local nature reserves and national parks
• Detailed radon potential data
• Clear, concise index ratings and guidance enabling rapid identification of any risk to support client care

AVAILABILITY

This report is available within three days.