British Coal's Draft Proposals for Open Cast Mining at Bannel Bridge: Cover and Back"

Bannel Bridge, Buckley

1970

OPENCAST EXECUTIVE

BANNEL BRIDGE OPENCAST COAL SITE

THE DRAFT PROPOSALS

POINTS TO NOTE

3 years working life

Normal hours 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Saturdays 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.

No Sunday or Bank Holiday working.

Approximately 2 year coal recovery period.

320,000 tonnes of high-quality coal.

3000 tonnes per week.

Suitable for industry e.g. Castle Cement.

British Coal staff on site.

Notice board and telephone numbers provided.

Complaints dealt with promptly.

Liaison committee to be set up.

40-50 new jobs.

Use of local labour force encouraged

Multi-million pound project consuming local supplies and services.

£96,000 to Community Charge fund at current rating levels.

All machines fitted with effective silencers.

Internal roads sprayed in dry weather to control dust.

Coal lorries sheeted.

Wheelwash provided.

No coal lorries on Bannel Lane.

No coal lorries through Buckley.

Sole Access point.

All coal to Wrexham

Environmentally conscious design

Coal transport route avoids Hope and Caergwrle

Trees and hedges preserved wherever practicable

Perimeter screen mounds shaped and seeded to grass

Overburden mound sympathetic to landscape and seeded

THE FUTURE?

Today, this is an area of extensively grazed farmland, poor in wildlife habitats and offering little in the way of recreation amenity.

This plan is a suggestion of what could be provided as a Restoration Scheme after working.

It gives an improved landscape, a diverse range of wildlife habitats and areas of conservation along with an enhanced footpath system for informal recreational use by the local community.

The achievement of this restoration depends on control of the land, i.e. ownership. The Executive are actively pursuing purchase and would wish to leave such a scheme but as yet cannot guarantee it and even securing ownership successful planning application would be required.

Author: Opencast Executive

British Coal's Draft Proposals for Open Cast Mining at Bannel Bridge: Cover and Back"

Bannel Bridge, Buckley

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