Management of Disused Tips

The Authority owns 44 disused tips and associated structures (2009).

All tips and associated lands are subject to a rigorous programme of inspection and regular monitoring in the interests of public safety and environmental protection. Modern technology has been embraced and use is made of telemetry for remote monitoring of key indicators on Blaencwm Landslide and seven other tip locations in South Wales. Following the successful use of laser scanning to supplement knowledge gained from conventional survey monitoring at Blaencwm, its use has now been extended to monitor a coastal landslip affecting part of Frances Tip in Fife.

Restoration of Littleton Tip & Quarry was commended in the large landscape project category at the Constructing Staffordshire Awards Ceremony 2008 organised by the West Midlands Centre for Construction Excellence.

• Code of practice for the management of disused tips

Spoil Tip Locations:

The Coal Authority’s Public Safety and Subsidence Team manage a number of spoil tips throughout Britain, they operate under the following Code of Practice. The following show locations of each of these spoil tips:

• Aber 351
• Abercynon 159
• Avon 369
• Blaenant 1001
• Blaenmelyn 522
• Caerau 393
• Calverton 7/8/9
• Cannock Wood 21-010-141
• Castle 129
• Cnwc 753
• Cwmtillery 576
• Cwm-y- Fuwch 352
• Deerplay
• Douglas Rigside 105
• Frances 044/045
• Littleton 21-160-171
• Llanover 596
• Marine 567
• Marine 568, 569 & 570
• Markham Main L1/2/3
• Mynydd Corrwg Fechan 380
• North Rhondda
• Rhondda Main 348
• Snowdown 101
• Tydraw
• Tymawr 430
• Western 360
• Whitwell 11/091
• Wilsontown 2
• Windsor Mountain Ropeway 421

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