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Moor End Lane update: 8 November 2024
Information for residents
Ground collapse at Moorend Houses, Silkstone Common
Thank you for your continued patience and understanding.
Progress this week
- Work is progressing in line with the attached schedule. We’ve continued the temporary works, as per the agreed plan. Most of the piling sheets are now in place around the perimeter of the site, alongside the pressurised support beams. We are now using a 13 tonne, 360 excavator which will allow us to access the whole of the excavation area.
- We completed the weekly survey of the monitoring studs and shared these results with your appointed engineer.
Next week
- We will continue excavating the site. As per the schedule, towards the end of the week, we plan to create the concrete blinding layer. This will provide a safe working platform for the shaft cap steel work to be constructed. As advised previously, we will try to limit disruption as much as possible, but some will be inevitable. We would recommend that residents avoid the area at the back of the properties whilst these works are undertaken.
- The stud monitoring will take place as usual on Wednesday. The surveyor will continue to access the studs via the rear of the properties.
- We will continue 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 15 November.
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.