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Moor End Lane update: 29 November 2024
Information for residents
Ground collapse at Moorend Houses, Silkstone Common
Thank you for your continued patience and understanding.
Progress this week
- This week, we made progress with the reinforcement cage of the steel reinforced concrete cap.
- As part of our standard due diligence procedures ahead of the concrete pour, we carried out an inspection of the steel on Wednesday. This identified an issue within the steel work, which will need to be rectified. It has meant we were unable to complete the planned concrete pour this week. This will now be undertaken next week. We are working with our contractor to minimise the impact on the schedule and will issue an updated schedule to residents next week.
- Following a resident request, we completed soil sampling from the site on Thursday. The results of the sampling are expected to take 2 weeks. We will share these with your appointed engineer once we have received them.
- We completed the weekly survey of the monitoring studs and shared these results with your appointed engineer.
- As agreed with residents, there was no onsite meeting this week.
Next week
- We will continue the works on the steel reinforcement.
- The concrete pour will happen before the end of the week.
- We will issue an updated schedule.
- 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 6 December.
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.