Vanoord
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14 years ago
The Coal Authority & Welbeck Estates Co Ltd wish to demolish this:

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http://www.nsdc.info/eplanning/default.aspx?sid=1&sindex=1&id=2&refno=03/02873/LBC 

These buildings were listed in 2000, so the present application seeks to overturn that and see the headstocks and buildings completely flattened.

It may be a little late to object on the application, but generally councils will take into account any correspondence received up to the planning meeting.


Thank you to Simon Chapman for bringing this to AditNow's attention.

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ian S
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14 years ago
well thats my letter away to them, if we don't try we won't achieve anything.
I am a mole and i live in a hole !
parkus
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14 years ago
Is thought there was a succesful petition a year or so ago which prevented the same from happening?
Tezarchaeon
14 years ago
I fail to understand why the local residents would want to let the best landmark feature in their town to be eradicated! Those headframes are absolutely iconic!
oildrum
14 years ago
"Tezarchaeon" wrote:

I fail to understand why the local residents would want to let the best landmark feature in their town to be eradicated! Those headframes are absolutely iconic!



I think its just a sad reflection of the current attitude to our heritage. Clipstone isn't alone in not being "wanted" by the locals, Chatterley Whitfield is another example where the local residents & council can't see the potential & importance of such structures/ buildings, and unfortunately English Heritage are happy to grant listed status, but seem to be impotent when the need arises 😠 Imagine the unroar if it was a stately home or similar!
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mikehiggins
14 years ago
I followed the link provided by Vanoord to Newark and Sherwood Council's eplanning website and ploughed through the supporting statement drawn up by Framptons (111 pages - not light reading). The most appalling thing in it, as highlighted by Tezarchaeon and oildrum, is that over 1200 local residents signed a petition in support of demolition. When you consider that there are only 3400 residents in Clipstone that's a pretty big percentage and I suspect that it will be the clincher when the application comes before the planning committee. How local people can be opposed to the retention of such an iconic structure that commemorates their own heritage is beyond me!
oildrum
14 years ago
As mikehiggins says the fact that so many locals are against saving these iconic structures makes depressing reading. Trouble is they see no importance in keeping this link with the past, the local authority & councillors don't wish to upset the voting public and another nondescript housing estate will spring up in its place :curse:

If its wasn't bad enough that the coal mining industry was totally obliterated, there are those that are intent on now removing the few remnants that remain 😠
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Morlock
14 years ago
The stupidity of people and councils in action. 😞

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/968343 

The stone was ripped from a site on a mountainside, broken in the process and then mounted where the local miners descenants could spray graffiti on it. :curse: :curse:

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moocher
14 years ago
i think a visit is on the cards before anything happens and its to late!! 😞
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oildrum
14 years ago
"moocher" wrote:

i think a visit is on the cards before anything happens and its to late!! 😞



😉 have to agree.

Perhaps we ought to do as the "environmentalists" do & form a human chain around the place to stop demolition.
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Branners
11 years ago
Hi, I'm new here, I know the last post on this topic was a while ago and I've never been in the mining industry but Clipstone is dear to my heart because my long departed granddad worked there for many years.

You probably already know this but there's an online petition aimed at the government to prevent the de-listing and demolition of the Clipstone Frameheads. I've put the link here in case anyone's interested. The petition's open until March 2015.

Regards to all.

Branners

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/61497 
ragl
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11 years ago
Petition signed.
simonrail
11 years ago
All sounds a bit familiar. I wrote to the D of E as it was then in the early 1990s to get the 1922 Keope winding tower at Murton Colliery, Co. Durham, Listed. It was, and remained for just a few years as the rest of the pit was demolished.

Then it was Easington District Council who declared that such an old mining structure would be detrimental to the re-generation of the area and successfully got it de-Listed and demolished. Its site is now a flat overgrown area and Murton is now swamped by more housing and dominated by a huge shopping complex.

It could have been retained and imaginatively displayed as symbolic of a proud heritage and hard working populace. But no! Get shot of it and replace it with somewhere for people to buy things they can't afford with money they haven't got.

Clipstone be warned.
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Branners
11 years ago
That's great, thank you. Now we need a few more to really get going on it.....
lipsi
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11 years ago
Signed petition.
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Ty Gwyn
11 years ago
Maybe a good percentage of the local`s want it gone,as it remind`s them of the dark past,84/85.
Dosco
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11 years ago
Signed petition - reminds me of the vandalism which took place at Hem Heath Colliery (or Trentham Super Pit) Longton S-O-T when the big 'A' was demolished such a waste all because it did not fit into the regeneration project and they blew the installation up in the early hours of a Sunday morning because the police feared a protest would take place causing major H&S risks....>:(
PeteJ
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11 years ago
Worth looking at the Facebook page and the links from there.
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Mr.C
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11 years ago
"Dosco" wrote:

Signed petition - reminds me of the vandalism which took place at Hem Heath Colliery (or Trentham Super Pit) Longton S-O-T when the big 'A' was demolished such a waste all because it did not fit into the regeneration project and they blew the installation up in the early hours of a Sunday morning because the police feared a protest would take place causing major H&S risks....>:(


Sorry to be off topic but it was a Tuesday morning, 19/8/97 and (IIRC) about 11am.
I remember it well, as it was my sons 13th birthday & we were both in the back yard when we heard the explosion.
You are quite right though, it was totally unpublicised before the event because of the reasons you mentioned.
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agricola
11 years ago
Signed..
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