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Godkin opencast site
replied on: 3/3/2006 1:40:56 PM

Ripley & Heanor News
29th Aug 1980
Open-casting start soon?
Open-casting on the 510 acre Godkin site at Loscoe could begin within the next three months, and the interim A610 Langley Mill by-pass which is being built to relieve traffic problems in the area is well on the way to completion.
A National Coal Board spokesman revealed that answers to tenders for the open-casting were expected in the next couple of months and work usually began after an acceptance some two weeks after that.
Government authorisation came in February to outcrop around three million tonnes of good quality coal in a ten-year operation.
The Godkin site is bounded by the A610 Codnor-Langley Mill road to the north and north east, and the A6007 Codnor –Heanor road through Loscoe to the west. Hoggbarn Lane diverts it and 216 acres comprises derelict and spoiled land, and 291 acres is used for agriculture.
WOODLAND
Two belts of woodland running through the northern section have been excluded from the site to ensure their retention.
Some coal will be crushed, screened and washes on the site before despatch and the necessary plant erected on the former Ormonde Colliery Site.
An area north of the woodland running south west from the A610 and another south of Bailey Brook would be worked out and backfilled within 21/2 years of the start to minimise inconvenience to the main areas of population.
A recreation area for Aldercar School, where there is an under provision of playing fields, would be created.
COLLIERY
As well as the former Ormonde Colliery the old Bailey Brook colliery site is on the land and as part of the scheme the former colliery spoil heaps at Loscoe and near Heanor will be removed.
The whole site is to be restored to agriculture when finished and a land husbandry scheme will be carried out for about five years afterwards.
The spokesman said the interim A610 Langley Mill by-pass, which will link up with the Eastwood and Kimberley by-pass so that coal lorries travelling to and from the site are steered away from hazardous junctions at Langley Mill, was well on the way to completion and could be finished in September
The NCB has made a cash contribution towards making an early start on the construction of the road, which will form part of the main by-pass scheme.

there must have been a few buildings lost while this was being done?
Jenny

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