MW03. COAL MINING & SPOIL DISPOSAL / REGENERATION OF MINING AREAS
(updated: August 4, 2006 )

Arletti, Cristina, 2002, 'Cultivating commerce in the former coalfields', Regeneration & Renewal, 12.4.02, pp14-15.

Arnold, P & Cole, I, 199?, The Development of the Selby Coalfield: a Study in Planning,' University of York, Department of Social Administration and Social Work, York.

Baber, Peter, 1995, 'Passing the 'poisoned chalice' of opencast, Planning Week 3 (34), 24.8.95.

Ball, Richard, 1998, 'RECHAR II in the West Midlands and the Anatomy of a Community Initative', Local Economy 12 (4), February, pp355-361.
Ball, Richard, 1999, 'Delivering new potential for community economic development? European structural funds, RECHAR II and the West Midlands coal communities', Policy and Politics 27 (4), October, pp515-532.

Bar, Fiona, 1997, 'King Coal's new clothes' (Allerton Bywater pit site, Leeds), Planning 1245, 12.12.97, p23..

Barraclough, David, 1999, 'Revised draft of MPG3 'not a revolutionary document', (RTPI comments), Planning 1307, 26.2.99.

Baxter, S, 1992, 'Valleys in the shadow of coal', New Statesman and Society, 11.12.92, pp12-13.

Beatty, C & Fothergill, S, 1996, 'Labour Market Adjustment in Areas of Industrial Decline: The Case of the UK Coalfields', Regional Studies 30 (7).

*Bennett, Katy; Beynon, Huw & Hudson, Ray, 2000, 'Coalfields Regeneration: Dealing with the consequences of industrial decline', The Policy Press, Bristol, Area Regeneration series in association with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York. ISBN 1 86134 224 1.

*Beynon, Huw; Cox, Andrew & Hudson, Ray, 1999, 'Digging Up Trouble: The Environment, Protest and Opencast Mining', from Lucy Shipton, Rivers Oram Press, 144 Hemingford Road, London N1 1DE, tel. (020) 7607 0823, ISBN 1 85489 113 8. (GF50.BEY)

Blake, John, 1993, 'Taking the longer-term view of coal,' Town and Country Planning, January/February.

Böhmer, Hermann, 1995, 'Confusion or Strategy: Coal Production Policies and C02 Reduction in the UK and Germany', (Ambit Publications) Report for the Natural and Built Environment, Issue 6, October.

Bowes, Nick J, 2003, 'The Competitiveness of Former Coalfields: Manufacturing Managers' Perceptions of Competitiveness Strengths and Weaknesses in South Yorkshire', Local Economy 18 (2), May, p135, http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=2DY5KMRP4XW5JEJP

Brewer, David, 1998, 'Old King Coal looks for an equal share', Energy Special, Planning 1271, 31.7.98.

British Coal (former):
'Opencast Mining in Great Britain,' BC, October 1991.
British Coal Opencast Executive, 'A seminar on land restoration, investigation and techniques', Proceedings of a Conference, Newcastle, July 1988.

Coal Authority, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, tel. (01623) 638250:
(Coal Authority & British Geological Survey), 'The Coal Resources Map of Britain', BGS, Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, March 1999.
'Coal Authority: Report and Accounts 2000-2001', July 2001.

Coalfield Communities Campaign (CCC) publications
available from CCC, 9 Regent Street, Barnsley, S70 2EE, tel. (01226) 200768
Coalfield Communities Campaign Opencast Briefing Notes:
1. The current planning framework.
2. The economics of Opencasting.
3. The qualities of opencast coal.
4. The environmental impact.
5. The lasting consequences of opencasting.
6. Areas at risk.
'When the pit closes', ?
'A better direction', 1987.
'Opencast Charter', 1991.
'Redundant Miners Survey: Grimethorpe', 1994.
'Who said Coal was Dead?', (ed. Nigel Guy), 1995.
'A Fair Deal for Coal', 1997.
'A Market for Coal', 1998
'How Much Difference?' (Audit of Coalfield Regeneration initiatives), September 1999.
'How Much More Difference?' (Audit of Coalfield Regeneration initiatives), October 2000, free.
'The Coalfield Initiative: the next steps', March 2002.
'Deprivation in Scottish Coalfield Communities', September 2005.

Coalfields Regeneration Trust
- website: http://www.coalfields-regen.org.uk

'Survey of young people's attitudes to prospects in the coalfield areas' (?exact title), November 2002.

Coalfields Task Force, 1998, 'Making the Difference: A New Start for England's Coalfield Communities', (former) DETR (Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions), London.

CoalPro, 2004, 'Planning for Coal', CoalPro, tel. (01924) 200802, May.

Coates, Ken, MEP & Brown, M.B, 1997, 'Communities under attack: The struggle for survival in the Coalfield Communities of Britain', Spokesman, Nottingham.

Command Papers (HM Government), available from The Stationery Office (TSO) (was HMSO until 1997):
'Coal and the Environment: The Government's Response to the Commission on Energy and the Environment's Report', Cmnd. 8877, 1983.

Commision of the European Communities, 2000, 'Proceedings of the EU seminar on the status of development and market pentration of clean coal technologies (CCT) for power generation', free, EC Energy and Transport Directorate-General, rue de la Loi 200, B-1049 Brussels, fax. +32 2 29 50577, email: ener-info@cec.eu.int

Cope, D.R; Hills, P & James, P, (eds.), 1984, 'Energy Policy and Land Use Planning: an international perspective', Pergamon, Oxford.

Council ("Campaign" from June 2004) for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE), 128 Southwark St, London SE1 0SW,
tel. (020) 7981 2800, fax. (020) 7981 2899, email: info@cpre.org

- website: http://www.cpre.org.uk
'
Campaigners' Guide to Opencasting', 1991.

Countryside Commission (former; part of The Countryside Agency since April 1999), 1993, 'Opencast Coalmining: Advise on Landscape and Countryside Issues', CCP 434., Countryside Commission/Agency Publications, Chelternham, Glouecestershire. ISBN 086170 404 5

County Planning Officers' Society (former), 'Opencast Coal-mining Statistics', (latest statistics published each November), County Environment Department, Durham.

Critcher, Chas, et al., 1992, 'Coping with Contemporary Change in Britain's Mining Communities,' Centre for Media and Communities Research, Sheffield Hallam University (formerly Sheffield City Polytechnic).

Crowson, Philip, 2002, 'Sustainability and the Economics of Mining - What Future?', Minerals and Energy - Raw Materials Report 17 (2), September, p15, http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=8U21FR572Q3FE3YR

Dennis, N; Henriques F & Slaughter, C, 1969, 'Our Life is Coal: An analysis of a Yorkshire Mining Community', Tavistock Publications Ltd, London.

Department for Transport Local Government and the Regions (DTLR) (June 2002-May 2002)
- website: http://www.dtlr.gov.uk

'The Potential Role for Fiscal Incentives in the Economic Regeneration of Former Coalfield Areas', December 2001,
http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=4685&heading=e-mail+alert

Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), London, tel. (020) 7211 6000:
'The Peoples' Lottery', 1997.
'New Links fr the Lottery: Proposals for the New Opportunities', (consultation paper), Cm 4616, available from TSO, tel. (0345) 023474, December 1998.
'Improvring Lottery Funding Access and Delivery in the British Coalfields Area', June 2000.

Department of the Environment (DOE) (former; from June 1997 to June 2001 part of the
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions; DETR):
Circular 3/84, Transfer of control for Opencast Coal Mining', HMSO, 1984..
Circular 15/87: Assessment of Alternative Colliery Spoil Disposal Options', HMSO, 1987.
Circular 28/87: Opencast Coal Mining', HMSO, 1987.
Mineral Planning Guidance Notes (1988 onwards)
MPG 3: 'Open cast coal mining', HMSO, 1988, revised in 1994 as 'Coal Mining and Colliery Spoil Disposal.'
'Subsidence', HMSO, 1993.

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) (1997-2001)
replaced in June 2001 by the Department for Transport Local Government and the Regions (DTLR)
'The Task Force Report - Making the Difference: A New Start for England's Coalfield Communities', DETR Free Publications, Wetherby, June 1998. (OFL).
'The Government's Response to the Coalfields Taskforce Report', DETR Free Literature, PO Box 236, Wetherby, LS23 7NB, tel. (0870) 1226236, 1998.
Chemical variation and end uses of coal at the present and in the future', (Research to inform Minerals Planning Guidance Note 3 on coal mining and colliery spoil), tel. (01242) 673361, 1999, £20.
'Mineral Planning Guidance Note 3: Opencast Coal Mining', TSO, March 1999 (replacement for former DOE 1994 version).
'Chemical Variations and End Uses of Coal', 1999, CRE Group Ltd., tel. (01242) 673371.
'Research Report 52: Restoration and Revegetation of Colliery Spoil Tips and Lagoons', ?1999.
'Coalfields Task Force Report - A Progress Report by the Government', DETR Free Publications, Wetherby, tel. (0870) 1226 236, October 1999 (OFL on 19.10.99), at:- http://www.regeneration.detr.gov.uk/coalfields/pr99/index.htm

'Regeneration Research Summary: Regeneration of Former Coalfield Areas - Interim Evaluation', DETR Publications, September 2000, (OFL on 29.9.00)
(study for the DETR by Segal Quince Wicksteed Ltd), 'Assessment of regeneration progress in the former coalfield
areas of England'. Main report and six case study reports available from David Walters, tel. (020) 7944 3257 and at http://www.regeneration.detr.gov.uk/coalfields/index.htm, October 2000
'Planning Policy Guidance Note 14: Development on Unstable Land - Annex 2 - Subsidence planning - Consultation paper', November 2000, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=608&heading=Email+Alert

Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), London:
- website: http://www.dti.gov.uk

'The Prospects for Coal - Conclusions of the Government's Coal Review' (White Paper, Cm 2235), 1994.
'Clean Coal Technologies', HMSO, 1995.
'The Energy Report: Competition, Competitiveness and Sustainability', HMSO, 1995.
'The Energy Report: Competition, Oil and Gas Resources of the United Kingdom’, HMSO, 1995.
'Review of the Selby Coal Mine Complex', July 2002, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=7316&heading=e-mail+alert
*'Energy White Paper: Our energy future – creating a low carbon economy' (Chapter 6), February 2003, http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/whitepaper/ourenergyfuture.pdf

Dewar, David, 1999, 'Revised MPG3 minerals planning guidance' (on coal mining and colliery spoil disposal), Planning 1313, 9.4.99.
Dewar, David, 2005, 'Castleford ready to broadcast renewal', Planning 1620, 20.5.05, pp14-15

Dicks, B; Waddington, D & Critcher, C, 1993, 'The Quiet Disintegration of Closure Communities', Town and Country Planning, July, pp174-176.

Dumpleton, Stephen, 1995, 'The dangerous legacy of dead collieries' (water pollution from abandoned mines) , Surveyor 5354, Vol. 182, 24.8.95.

East Midlands Development Agency and the Coalfield Alliance, 2000, 'Positioned for Prosperity', North Derbyshire and North Nottinghamshire Coalfield Alliance, Civic Centre, Chesterfield Road South, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire NG19 7BH, tel. (01623) 463048, April and at: http://www.emda.org.uk/coalfield_alliance

East Midlands Regional Planning Forum, 1995, 'Economy 2020', EMRPF, c/o Notts. County Council Planning and Economic Development Department (Enviroonment Department since April 1998), West Bridgford, Nottingham, November ,

English Heritage (EH) publications, available from English Heritage Customer Services, Kemble Drive,
Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 2GZ, tel. (01793) 414911, fax. (01793) 414926
- website: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk

'Colliery Landscapes', 1994.

English Partnerships
- website: http://www.englishpartnerships.co.uk

(EP & Langtree Group PLC), 'Networkspace', Langtree Group plc, St. Helens, 1999.
'Five Years of the National Coalfields Programme - Relaising the Potental', 2002, and on the EP website.
'Creativity in the Coalfields', September 2005, http://www.englishpartnerships.co.uk/page.aspx?pointerid=64241OphaK9K2AAJhl5l...

Fagg, Barry, 2001, 'Securing the power supplies to drive brownfield development', Urban Environment Today 134, 8.11.01, p14.

Feature, 1997, 'Searching for a New Seam of Prosperity', (regeneration of old mining areas), Urban Environment Today, 7.8.97.

Flowers Report, 1981, 'Coal and the Environment', HMSO, London.

Fothergill, Stephen, & Guy, Nigel, 1992, 'The End of Coal? The Impact of the Dash for Gas on UK Electricity Generation', Coalfields Communities Campaig

Fothergill, Stephen, 2005, 'Twenty Years On: Has the Economy of the Coalfields Recovered?', Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, http://www.shu.ac.uk/cresr/pub/index.html

Friends of the Earth publications available from FOE Publications, 56-58 Alma Street,
Luton, Beds. LU1 2PH, tel. (01582) 482297:
'Getting out of the Greenhouse: An Agenda for UK action in energy policy', 1989.
'Energy without end', June 1991.
'Efficiency without tears,: 'No Regrets' Energy Policy to meet climate change', August 1992.

Fyson, Anthony, 2000, 'Opencast coal mining needs tought control to minimise damage', Planning 1361, 24.3.00.

Granville, David, 1994, 'The battle of the greenfield site' (opencasting in Yorkshire), Planning Week 2 (49) 12.12.94.

Griffiths, Charlotte, 2002, 'Restructuring of the Coal Industries in the Economies in Transition - An Overview of the Last Decade', Minerals and Energy - Raw Materials Report 17 (2), September, p3, http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=YVKP5VX7HC9QNLPT

Griffiths, John, 1998, 'Gas attack from disused mines', Surveyor, 26.3.98.

Guy, Nigel, 1995, 'Who said Coal was Dead?', Coalfield Communities Campaign, Barnsley, Yorkshore.

Hammond, Tim, 1995, 'Undermining the "Dirty Man" image of opencast in Scotland, (Ambit Publications) Report for the Natural and Built Environment Professionals, no. 6, October.

Hare, Graham, 1998, 'English Partnership's Coalfield Regeneration Programmes', Local Economy, 12 (4), February.

Henderson, Roger; Shutt, John, 2004, 'Responding to a coalfield closure: old Issues for a new regional development agency', Local Economy 19 (1), February, p25, http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com.

Hicks, MichaeL J & Burton, Mark L, 2005, 'Economic Analysis of Coal Waste Disposal: Research Considerations for Environmental Regulation', Minerals and Energy - Raw Materials Report 20 (1), June, p3, URL of article: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=N847T57824G6574X

Hills, P, 1984, 'Planning for coal: issues and responses', in Cope, D; Hills, P & James, P (eds.), 'Energy Policy and Land Use Planning', Pergamon, Oxford.

Hinnells, Mark, 1993, 'Unfinished business: (The Social, environmental and strategic issues left unresolved by the Coal Review White Paper,) Town and Country Planning, Vol. 62 (5), May.

House of Commons ODPM Select Committee
'Coafield Communities', March 2004, and at http://www.planningresource.co.uk

House of Commons Select Committee on Trade and Industry:
'Coal Industry and Energy Policy,' 1993.
'Energy Review', June 1998.

House of Lords Select Committee on Energy, 1991, 'Clean Coal Technology and the Coal Market after 1993', ?

House of Commons Select Committee on Trade and Industry:
'Coal Industry and Energy Policy,' 1993.
'Energy Policy', 5th Report, TSO, tel. (0345) 02374, June 1998.
'Energy Policy' (?exact title), February 2002.

Howe, G, 1998, 'English Partnerships' Coalfield Regeneration Programme', Local Economy, 12 (4), pp363-364.

Hudson, Ray; Bennett, Katy & Beynon, Huw, 2000, 'Dealing with the Consequences of Industrial Decline' (Regeneration in the former UK coalfields), Geography Department, Durham University, tel. (01235) 465500, April.

ICCEPT (Imperial College Centre for Energy Policy and Technology), 2002, 'the potential of low carbon technologies for delivering deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in the next 50 years' (?exact title), December, available at the Cabinet Office's Strategy website: http://www.strategy.gov.uk/

IMI Consultancy, 2003, 'Survey of reserve at deep mines' (?exact title), IMI Consultancy for the Department of Trade and Industry, London, April.

Jacard, Mark, 2006, ‘Sustainable Fossil Fuels’, Cambridge University Press,

Johnston, Bryan, 1997, ‘Labour’s plans for Old King Coal’, Planning 1238, 3.10.97.

Jones, Tim, 1992, 'Environmental Impact Assessment for Coal', ?, Oversize TD887.C6.JON

Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2000, 'Coalfields Regeneration: Dealing with Consequences of Industrial Decline', JRF, York, May.

Kernot, Charles, 2000, 'The coal industry', Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, ISBN 1 85573 105 3

Kingsnorth, Paul, 1999, 'Pit Stop: Clean Start' (Sherwood Energy Village, Nottinghamshire), Green Futures (Forum for the Future) 14, January/February.

Kochan, Ben, 1998, 'Finding a Future for Lost Coal Communities', Urban Environment Today, 9.7.98.

Laurence, David C, 2002, 'Optimising Mine Closure Outcomes for the Community - Lessons Learnt', Minerals and Energy - Raw
Materials Report 17 (1), March, p27, http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com

Leeds Metropolitan University, 2002, 'The Selby Coalfield Impact Study', Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, tel. (0113) 283 7452.

Lyster, Samantha, 2003, 'A light at the end of the tunnel' (the closing of Selby coalmine), Regeneration & Renewal 28.3.03, pp20-21

Mann, John, 2002, 'Heroin in Bassetlaw: a Report of the Inquiry convened by John Mann MP', October, http://www.johnmannmp.co.uk

Marston Books Services, 2000, 'Coalfields Regeneration: Dealing with the Consequences of Industrial Decline', £12.95, Marston Book Services, tel. (01235) 465500, April.

Mellis, Heather, 1997, 'A pit stop on the heritage trail', Planning 1241, 24.10.97.

Morgan, K, 1993, 'Revival in the Valleys', Town and Country Planning, July, pp177-179.

Morris, Jonathan & Wilkinson, Barry, 1994, 'Poverty and Prosperity in Wales,' Cardiff Business School, University of Wales, Cardiff CF1 1X2.

Murray, Nick, 1995, 'The shadow of Aberfan' (sale of reclaimed coal tips), Surveyor 5354, Vol. 182, 24.8.95.

National Rivers Authority (former; replaced in April 1996 by the Environment Agency)
- publications from HMSO/TSO, unless otherwise stated.

'Abandoned mines and the Water Environment,' HMSO, 1994.

'Colliery Closures in the Midlands; a review of the potential impact of colliery closures on the water environment in the Midlands', NRA, Solihull, 1996.

National Rivers Authority (former; part of the Environment Agency since April 1996), 1996, 'Colliery Closures in the Midlands: A Review of the potential impact of colliery closures on the water environment in the Midlands', NRA, Solihull.

Niven, Rosie, 2003, 'South Yorkshire on long recovery road', Planning 1549, 12.12.03, p14-15

North Derbyshire and North Notts. Coalfield Alliance, 2000, 'Positioned for Prosperity', available from the Coalfield Alliance Secretariat, Civic Centre, Mansfield, tel. (01623) 819915 and at http://www.emda.org.uk/coalfield alliance

Nottinghamshire County Council, West Bridgford, Nottingham:
'Notts. Coalfield Strategy,' 1992.
'Wide Area Strategy', Chief Executives' Department, 1995.
(Notts. CC, Derbyshire CC, Leicestershire CC, The Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation, Business in the Community and Rural Development Commission), 'Coalfield Community Landmarks: An Application to the Millennium Commission', 1996.
'A Better Future for the Nottinghamshire Coalfield Communities: Submission to the Coalfields Task Force', 1997.

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) (2002-2006)
- replaced in May 2006 by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG)
- website: http://www.odpm.gov.uk

'Reclamation of Limestone Quarries by Landform Simulation: Full report and appendices on monitoring of trial sites', June 2002, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=7020&heading=e-mail+alert
'Updating Coalfield Areas: Full report', August 2003, http://www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_control/documents/contentservertemplate/odpm_whats_new.hcst
'Coalfields Enterprise Fund', March 2004, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=19285&heading=e-mail+alert
'Government Response to the ODPM Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee Report on Coalfield Communities', June 2004,
http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=20355&heading=e-mail+alert

O'Keefe, Phil, 1989, 'How Green is my Power Station?,' Coalfield Communities Campaign, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

Parker, Mike, 1994, 'The Prospects for Hard Coal in Europe', Earthscan, London.

Parker, Mike, 1994, 'The Politics of Coal Decline: The Industry in Western Europe', ?

Pattison, Gary, 1999, 'Restructuring Culture: Identification of difference and the regulation of change in ex-mining communities', Ashgate, Aldershot. ISBN 1 84014 3304.

Pattison, Gary, 2004, 'Planning for decline: the 'D'-village policy of County Durham, UK', Planning Perspectives, 19 (3), July, p311,
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=J8AWLHUG8UJVGJ51

Pearson, Euan, 1999, 'Operators' view takes back seat' (on the Scottish Office NPPG16), Planning 1323, 18.6.99.

Peters, Rob, 2002, 'Dealing with that sinking feeling' (subsidence), Regeneration & Renewal, 8.3.02, p12

Pratt, Andrew, 1990, 'Opencast mining - a shadow,' Durham Area Miners' Support Group, Opencast Mining Project, c/o 26 Victoria Street, Ryehill, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 7JU.

Roberts, Peter, 1994/95, 'Rebuilding coalfield communities', Housing and Planning Review, 49 (6), December 1994/January 1995.

Roger Tym & Partners, 2001, 'Diversification and the future of Ashington, Northumberland' (?exact title), Roger Tym & Partners, Glasgow, October.

Ross, Matt, 2004, 'The village people' (regeneration in the coalfields), Regeneration & Renewal, 13.2.04, p23

Royal Geographical Society Summary Statements available from the RGS website: http://www.rgs.org/conferencereports
'Regenerating Britain's Coalfields: problems and prospects', March 2000.

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), 1991, 'Coal-mining subsidence', RICS Books, London.

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) Scotland, 2000, 'Biodiversity and Opencast Coal Mining: A Good Practice Guide'. RSPB Scotland, Edinburgh, tel. (0131) 557 3136 /Scottish Natural Heritage, Perth, October.

Rutherford, L.A. & Peart, J.D, 1989, 'Opencast guidance: opportunties for green policies', Journal of Planning and Environment Law, pp402-410.

Segal Quince Wicksteed Ltd.:
(Segal Quince Wicksteed Ltd for the DETR), 'Assessment of regeneration progress in the former coalfield areas of England'., October 2000, Main report and six case study reports available from David Walters, tel. (020) 7944 3257 and at http://www.regeneration.detr.gov.uk/coalfields/index.htm, October.

(Segal Quince Wicksteed Ltd for the DTLR), 'The Potential Role for Fiscal Incentives in the Economic Regeneration of Former Coalfield Areas', January 20002, DTLR Free Publications, tel. (0870) 122 6236.

Selby Coalfield Task Force, 2002, 'Selby Coalfield Task Force Report', December, http://www.selbycoalfieldtaskforce.com

Strangleman, Tim, 2001, 'Networks, Place and Identities in Post-industrial Mining Communities', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 25 (2).

The Bevan Foundation, 2002, 'Ambitions for the Future' (South Wales valleys), The bevan Foundation, tel. (01495) 725214

The Scottish Executive, Edinburgh, tel. (0131) 244 2953
- website: http://www.scotland.gov.uk:
'Impact of opencast coal mining on public health' (?exact title) (consultation paper), July 2000.
'The Operation and Effectiveness of NPPG16', March 2004, and via http://www.planningresource.co.uk
'SPP16: Opencast Coal', July 2005.

The Scottish Office National Planning Policy Guidelines, available from TSO, Edinburgh:
NPPG 4, 'Land for Mineral Working'.
NPPG 16, 'Opencast Coal and Related Minerals'.

The Welsh Office, Cardiff CF1 3NO
(former; replaced by the National Assembly for Wales):
'Programme for the Valleys: A Statistical Profile, 1993', Statistics Directorate, 1994.
*Coal Mining and Colliery Spoil Disposal', Welsh Office Consultation Paper, January 1999

Town and Country Planning, Special Issue on Coalfield Communities, July 1993. (includes articles on 'The Coal Industry after the White Paper, European approach to energy policy and pit closures, The effects of pit closures on individuals and communities, Lessons from the South Wales Valleys Initiative, and Issues raised by Opencast Mining).

Turner, Royce, 1993, 'Regenerating the Coalfields: Policy and Politics in the 1980s and early 1990s, Avebury, Aldershot, Hampshire.

UK Government:
'The prospect for coal: conclusions of the Government's coal review', HMSO, London, 1993.
'White Paper on the Conclusions of the Review of Energy Sources from Power Generation' (Cm 4071), TSO, October 1998.

University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2001, 'The impact ofr opencast mining on children's respiratory health', Report for the Scottish Executive, May 2001 and c.f. http://www.scotland.gov.uk

Waddilove Committee Report, 1988, 'The Repair and Compensation system for Coal Mining Subsidence Damage', HMSO, London.

Waddington, D; Dicks, B & Critcher, C, 1992, 'Coal and Community Research', http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/commstud.coalcomm/closepap.htm

Waddington, David; Critcher, Charles; Dicks, Bella & Parry, David, 2001, 'Out of the Ashes: The Social Impact of Industrial Contraction and Regeneration on Britain's Mining Communities', Routledge / Spon Press, London. ISBN 0 11 702729 4

Waddington, David, 1998, 'Developing coalfields communities: Breathing new life into Warsop Vale', The Policy Press, Bristol ISBN: 1 86134 553 4

Walker, Ben, 2004, 'The Coalfields - Twenty Years On' (special report), Regeneration & Renewal, 9.4.04, pp20-23

Walsh, Fiona, Lee, Norman, & Wood, Christopher, 1991, 'The Environmental Assessment of Opencast Coal Mines,' University of Manchester EIA Centre Occasional Paper no. 28.

White, Geoff, 2002, 'Combing tax incentives and grants ot attract investment' (in regenerating coalfield areas), Urban Environment Today 139, 24.2.02, p9

Wilson, Mick; Lewis, Brian et al, 2001, 'Seams of Gold' (Barnsley), produced as part of a regeneration initiative by the Open College of the Arts and the Coalfield Regeneration Initiative, December, available from Judith Jones, Open College of the Arts, tel. (01226) 730495.

RELEVANT WEBSITES