Proposed Open Cast Site at Airfield Farm, Cousland

This page was last updated on: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:38 PM

This page has been added to the Cousland village website to provide information on the proposed open cast site at Airfield Farm near Cousland.

In the news...

Midlothian open cast sites to play role in power deal
(Midlothian Advertiser 15 July 2008)

Public Consultation Event

A public consultation event organised by Scottish Coal was held in the village hall on 19th June 2008. This event detailed the proposed plans for the open cast site (click here to view a map of the area).

A map showing the area of the proposed open cast site near Cousland

The image above shows a map of the proposed area of the open cast site near Cousland. Click on the image to see a larger version.

Community Meeting

Following an unexpected level of interest from parties possibly affected by the development at Airfield, a provisional date for a community meeting has been set for Thursday 28th August, 7.30pm at Cousland Village Hall.

Further details of this meeting will follow but to aid planning it would be useful if you could email or telephone to indicate numbers expected to attend (see contact info provided below).

Site Plans and Details

The following documents are now available to download via the Scottish Resources Group website. These are available in PDF format and require Acrobat Reader software.

Airfield Scoping Report (PDF 642Kb)
Figure 1 - Site Location Plan (PDF 1.1Mb)
Figure 2 - Proposed Boundary (PDF 595Kb)
Figure 3 - Constraints Map (PDF 630Kb)
Figure 4 - Site Services Plan (PDF 534Kb)
Figure 5 - Indicative Site Layout Phasing (PDF 761Kb)
Figure 6 - Key Viewpoints (PDF 1.1Mb)
Comments Form (PDF 29Kb)

Further information and contacts

We have set up an email address within the local community should you have any comments, questions or queries - airfield.couslandcoal@virgin.net or alternatively, telephone 0131 663 2730.

Mailing list

If you would like to be kept informed by email of this development, please subscribe to the village mailing list and choose 'Airfield Farm Open Cast Mine' from the list of options. We will keep you updated with all news, events, discussions and other information relating to this development as soon as we receive it.

Links

Scottish Resources Group (Scottish Coal) - www.scottishcoal.co.uk

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