Publication - Advice and guidance

Proposed electricity generation developments: peat landslide hazard best practice guide

Published: 26 April 2017
Directorate: Energy and Climate Change Directorate
Topic: Building, planning and design, Energy, Environment and climate change
ISBN: 9781786527776

Second edition of guidance on best practice methods to identify, mitigate and manage peat slide hazards and associated risks.

Supporting documents

Figures and Plates

Figure 1.1 Flow diagram checklist for peat landslide hazard and risk assessment

Figure 5.1 Balance of slope forces

Plate 2.1 Bog burst, a spreading failure in peat with pear shaped area of disturbance with concentric rafts and tears and little substrate exposed

Plate 2.2 Peat slide, a shallow translational slide failure in peat with large slab-shaped raft visible (right) and extensive exposed substrate (left)