Summary
SIR - Where is the sense in a council allowing the building of a new community school for 500 pupils aged between three and 11, and then a year later supporting a planning application for one of the UK's biggest opencast mining schemes, just 600 metres from the school and less than one mile from the town centre itself? This is what has happened in Merthyr Tydfil.
Even after a precautionary note was struck by the National Assembly in calling in the proposal, the Labour majority group of councillors at a special council meeting voted en bloc in favour of the scheme, when it was to be considered at a public inquiry.See the full content of this document
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Opencast Opposition
Naturally, parents at the school are worried...
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