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Moor End Lane update: 27 September 2024
Information for residents
Ground collapse at Moorend Houses, Silkstone Common
Thank you for your continued patience and understanding.
Progress this week
- There has been no activity on site this week.
- We have continued to liaise with your appointed engineer and have answered their questions about the weekly monitoring results. We have replied to all their questions about the temporary works.
- We completed the weekly survey of the monitoring studs.
- As agreed with residents, there was no onsite meeting this week.
Next week
- We have agreed with your appointed engineer that our contractor can start moving onto site from 30 September. You will start to see more activity on site next week as our contractor moves on to site and carries out preparatory work. This will include the delivery of machinery and materials to our compound and the final positioning of safety fencing.
- The stud monitoring will take place as usual on Wednesday. The surveyor will continue to access the studs via the rear of the properties.
- There will be a residents meeting next week at 6pm on Wednesday 2 October.
Works to the mine shaft
It is planned for these works to begin week commencing 7 October. We will continue to provide weekly updates of our progress and give advance notice of future work.
In the meantime, we are continuing to speak to residents individually about their circumstances and concerns, as well as via the represented contact.
Next update:
We will provide a further update on Friday 4 October.
Key contacts
Please contact us if there is anything you wish to discuss. The reference number for this project is P-046483.
Customer Services Team
If you have any questions about our work please call our customer services team on 0345 762 6848 or 01623 637 000 Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm or email us at customerservice@coal.gov.uk.
To report an emergency, please contact: 0800 288 4242 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) For more information about the Coal Authority, please visit www.gov.uk/coalauthority.