Scanning Services

The Coal Authority introduces its state of the art scanning and plan reproduction centre which offers a range of services for the copying of maps, plans and other media.

The variety of scanning methods available to the Coal Authority enables us to cope with any size of plan and media up to 3 metres in width, and of virtually any length. Take advantage of  our expertise in dealing with our own historic plans  (totalling over 100,000), including some that were generally in poor condition. Benefit from our experience in dealing with large scanning projects, successfully carried out for a portfolio of clients,  including local government bodies.

You can be certain that your precious documents are in safe hands during their stay with us. Alongside our unique coal abandonment plans, your documents will be kept in one of only a handful of records stores in the country meeting both the National Archives Standard for Record Repositories (2004) and BS5454 (2000).

We have purpose-built storage facilities meeting the required temperature, humidity and fire control standards - giving the required protection against dust, pollution, pest and unauthorized access. Where necessary we operate a white glove approach in handling your plans during the scanning process. This ensures that these irreplaceable and potentially fragile documents are not affected by our scanning process.

Professional scanning expertise provided by the Coal Authority:

• Large format camera scanning service
• Largest Scanning Facility of its kind in Europe
• Award winning scanning and storage solution
• Original document storage and digital copy retrieval
• Roller Scanner - copying plans up to 50”
• Large Format Camera - copying plans up to 3m wide and virtually any length
• National Archives standard storage facilities to BS5454(2000)
• White glove approach to handling your plans where required
• Expertise in handling fragile documents
• A range of services available from individual document scanning up to large commercial contracts
• Highly experienced team

Scanning Services Contacts:

Contact the Customer Services Manager on:

e: services@coal.gov.uk
t:  (01623) 637 184
f:  (01623) 622 072