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20 Sep

Villagers unite in coal plans fight

OPPOSITION to plans for an open-cast mine in Cossall is growing.

UK Coal revealed in May that it was considering mining at the Shortwood Farm site in Cossall, almost a decade after previous plans were withdrawn.

New information now shows the company has gathered background information and is getting ready to make a planning application to set up the mine.

Villagers plan to hold a public meeting next week with the aim of forming an action group to fight the scheme.

Jane Burd, of Notts Against new Coal, said: “The information we have received via the Freedom of Information Act has given us a heads up on UK Coal’s plan and will give us time to prepare our counter-argument.

“It says not only that they propose to submit a planning application, but has diagrams of where it is going to be. We’re fairly certain in the next few weeks they’ll be making a move.

“I would urge anyone who lives nearby, whether they have environmental interests or not, to come along to the meeting because if this goes ahead, it will affect their lives.”

Correspondence unearthed by the Freedom of Information request included an email from a planning consultant to Broxtowe Borough Council.

It said: “UK Coal propose to submit a planning application for the extraction of coal and fireclay at a site of agricultural land at Shortwood Farm, which lies between the villages of Cossall to the north and Trowell to the south in the district of Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire.

“The development would extract in the order or 1.8 to 2.0 million tonnes over a 5.5-year period.”

Stuart Oliver, of UK Coal, said the consultant’s inquiries were “part of the evaluation process” as it had not yet decided which sites to take forward first.

“The process of evaluating Shortwood Farm and where it sits in our programme is ongoing,” he said. “We’ve got several schemes we’re looking at in the coalfield areas and I’d think by mid-October we would have a clearer picture as to where the priority schemes will be.

“There is still a lot of work to be done. But within a month we hope to be in a position to say A, B or C are going to be put in to the next planning application phase to maintain an annual output of surface mines in the order of two million tonnes.”

He added: “There has been a lot of work on the Shortwood Farm scheme but it is ten years since that was withdrawn.”

The public meeting is on Wednesday at the Festival Inn in Trowell, at 7pm. Broxtowe MP Nick Palmer, Anna Soubry, prospective parliamentary candidate for the Conservatives and Ken Rigby, Liberal Democrat County Coun for Cossall and Trowell are due to attend.

From: This is Nottingham

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  1. Im not sure whether this is a protest site or a site to gain information about a vital source of energy lying beneath the UK? More likely the former so I will put my case forward for the extaction of this vital source of energy. I expect most of the protestors are NIMBY’s who are quite willing to hang onto the carbon argument and allow imports from the rest of the world , and then ignore the Greenhouse issue. They quite simply wish to protest as is there right.We need to face facts that Britain will go slowly towards the nuclear option in order to manage carbon counts ;it is inevitable.In between we will still have coal fired power stations and why not as long as they are managed & regulated correctly. We also have the issue of employment for those working within the Coal industry ; ask them if they share or sympathise with irrational behaviour regarding Coal extraction. I think Margaret Thatcher who , along with the inefficent NCB , completely wrecked the industry and my view is that those complaining are doing likewise. I dont really care if you think my comments are provocative because they are intended to be. I have seen the same busy body logic within the Quarrying Industry where the UK , which is rich in minerals , is slowly heading towards an aggregate shortfall for the nations requirements;sadly recycling wont even get us out of the direction we are headed before you counter my argument. You really can’t see further than than the end of your driveway , stopping perfectly valid projects from realisation with outcomes in most cases where the latter is better than the former with significant improvement. It is not uncommon for these mined/quarried areas after restoration to be opended to the public as part of the Planning consent given to the site.Nature is thriving in these excavated areas and if you dont believe me ask David Bellamy. I bet you cant counter this argument with anything more substantive a pathetic excuse for the concern of a bat/toad which can be safely moved to another area; can you?

    Peter Hardinge 24 February / 13:28

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