Application for New Coal Mine to Open in Wales Refused
The revised plan cut output to 85,000 tonnes, but councillors said it still threatened protected habitats and breached Welsh policy.
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Ancient woodland saved in council’s rejection of UK's last opencast coal application
Carmarthenshire County Council has rejected Bryn Bach Coal Ltd’s second attempt to expand and extend the currently dormant Glan Lash opencast coal mine, about 15 miles north of Swansea. This followed hundreds of hand-written and online objections from residents in the county. The decision reflects a clear, strategic commitment to climate leadership, rare habitat protection, and safeguarding the health of surrounding communities. There are no liv…
COAL MINING: Plans for UK's last outstanding opencast mine rejected near Ammanford
Plans to extend an opencast coal mine in Carmarthenshire have been thrown out — the last outstanding proposal of its kind anywhere in the UK. Carmarthenshire Council refused the application for the Glan Lash site near Ammanford, where Bryn Bach Coal Ltd had wanted to dig for 85,000 tonnes of what it called “premium quality anthracite”. According to planning documents, the company had applied to extend the mine across 10.03 hectares — around 25 a…
Woodland saved as last opencast mine application in the UK is rejected
Inside the Glan Lash opencast mine, near Llandybie. Photo Carmarthenshire Council Martin Shipton An ancient woodland has been saved thanks to a council’s decision to reject the UK’s last opencast coal application. Carmarthenshire county councillors decided to reject Bryn Bach Coal Ltd’s second attempt to expand and extend the currently dormant Glan Lash opencast coal mine at Ammanford, amidst hundreds of hand-written and online objections from l…
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