Opencast site near Bridgend

[Mike d550]

While searching google maps, i notoced an opencast coal site North west of Bridgend and adjacent a small town called Newcastle Higher! It looked like there was a fair bit of kit working there!

Does anyone have any information as to the operator of the site and its name?

Regards

Mike d550

[martyn williams]

I hope to arrange a visit there in the new year,I have a contact number so will get more detail.The site is called Parc slip.They have had planning problems there.I think Dai Walters got kit in there.
Martyn

[Mike d550]

Thanks for the information martyn, i'd like to get a visit there myself at somepoint but its a 300 mile drive for me.

Good luck with the site visit and dont forget to post some photos!


Regards

Mike D550

[IBH]

I've just had a Google
It seems Parc Slip was the site of a colliery that closed in the early 1900's with opencast extraction running from 1940 into the 90s with the site being restored to form a nature reserve.
See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/si ... slip.shtml
From what I can glean, the current site is actually Margam OCCS (itself an extension of Parc Slip West), which Celtic Energy want to extend:
http://www.coal.com/?page_id=16

[martyn williams]

Thats right IBH,some sort of planning problem there at the moment.
There is another large site above Onllwyn,there is also a coal washery there.
Martyn

[Renaultman]

The site you see is the mothballed margam opencast. It was the continuation of parc slip. It is awaiting a planning aplication for an extansion, so all the kit has been moved from it. A good site to visit would be either nant helen by onllwyn or east pit east by GCG.