- In effect this simply updated the earlier Brine Pumping (Compensation for Subsidence) Act of 1891.
- The exact wording of section 3 has been reformulated by virtue of s.39 of the Housing and Planning Act 1986 and is quoted verbatim below.
- The Commission on Energy and the Environment, Coal and the Environment (Dept. of Environment, 1981; HMSO). (The Flowers Report).
- Department of the Environment et al., Coal and the Environment: the Government's Response to the Commission on Energy and the Environment's Report on Coal and the Environment, Cmnd. 8877, 1983.
- The implications of the change in procedure introduced by this circular are considered in J.D. Peart and L.A. Rutherford, “Authorisation Procedures for Opencast Mining,” [1984] J.P.L. 11.
- J.D. Peart and L.A. Rutherford. “The Future Shape of Opencast Coal Mining—Proposed Legislation.” (1985) 3 J.E.R.L. 36.
- National Coal Board. Memorandum to the Joint Policy Advisory Committee. October 1985.
- Supra, note 3, Chap. 11.
- Quoted in Newcastle Journal, October 13, 1986.
- Public inquiry into NCB proposals for the Rosehills site in County Durham, November 1986. The Secretary of State dismissed this appeal, May 8, 1987.
- Parliamentary Debates Standing Committee H. Housing and Planning Bill 12th sitting March 25, 1986. Morning. Col. 446.
- Supra, 480 note 6.
- H. L. Deb. col. 386 (October 22, 1986).
- Subsequent to submission of this note a draft circular has been issued for consultation closing June 12, 1987.
- K. Boyfield, Put Pits into Profit; Alternative Plan for Coal, (Policy Study No. 73 Centre for Policy Studies, 1985).
- Council Directive June 27, 1985 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment (85/337/EEC), Official Journal of the European Communities, 1985 L175/40.
- Annex II section 2, Extractive industry, subsection (e).
- Technically limited to 25,000 tonnes or thereabouts, but in practice reaching 50,000 tonnes.
- The Coal Industry in Northumberland. Consultation Document. Northumberland County Council 1986, p. 16.
- The draft circular, supra, note 14 carries an inadequate reference to the possibility of environmental assessment.
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