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# Routes and ground

Early evidence for pipelines, cables, grid routes and legacy ground: desk studies, satellite ground motion and what must be known about disused tips.

[All guides](https://www.vireonature.com/insights)[Peat on development sites](https://www.vireonature.com/insights/peat-and-development)[Peat restoration and carbon](https://www.vireonature.com/insights/peat-restoration)[Routes and ground](https://www.vireonature.com/insights/routes-and-ground)

### [![Desk study for a pipeline, cable or grid route: the evidence a corridor option needs](https://www.vireonature.com/hs-fs/hubfs/ins_08.jpg?width=1200&height=630&name=ins_08.jpg) Guide10 Nov 2026 · 12 minute read Desk study for a pipeline, cable or grid route: the evidence a corridor option needs The early evidence a pipeline, cable or grid corridor option needs: ground, peat, habitats and heritage, in the order a routeing team will use them. Read the guide →](https://www.vireonature.com/insights/linear-route-desk-study)

### [![Satellite ground motion in a desk study: how to use the 2020 to 2024 European data](https://www.vireonature.com/hs-fs/hubfs/ins_09.jpg?width=1200&height=630&name=ins_09.jpg) Guide10 Nov 2026 · 12 minute read Satellite ground motion in a desk study: how to use the 2020 to 2024 European data How to use European Ground Motion Service data for 2020 to 2024 in a geotechnical desk study: scale of use, what each product shows and how to report it. Read →](https://www.vireonature.com/insights/egms-ground-motion-desk-study)

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## Route desk studies, ground motion and legacy ground

A route desk study sets out the evidence a corridor option needs before anyone walks it: ground conditions, peat, habitats, heritage, crossings and moving ground on the same chainage. Vireo reads a 30 km corridor on one grid in ten working days, and ranks where the first crews should go. See it live in [a 30 km route desk study](https://www.vireonature.com/inside-a-corridor).

Satellite radar adds what no walkover can: ground that is settling or rising, measured to about a millimetre a year. On the coalfield it feeds the Coal Mining Risk Assessment that most planning applications in the Development High Risk Area need, and on slopes and tips it shows where to inspect first. Read the [ground motion desk study guide](https://www.vireonature.com/insights/egms-ground-motion-desk-study).

Planning a grid connection or cable route for a wind farm? [Wind farm and grid evidence](https://www.vireonature.com/solutions/wind-and-grid) covers the site and the route together. The Corridor Evidence Pack is £9,600 for the first ten corridors.

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