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The site is that of an oldspoilheapat a colliery, not a green field.
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They have an ambitious scheme to create a new community forest—a forest that will be planted on thespoilheap.
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However, land that is still in active use does not qualify—for example, aspoilheapon which tipping is taking place.
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I understand that in the main the wholespoilheapwas removed for motorway construction, for housing sites and so on.
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This is a wealthy company which could very well site thespoilheapelsewhere.
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It would still look out on to a largespoilheapand be flanked on two sides by overgrown waste land.
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I remember an instance when we could not work underground in a downcast shaft adjacent to aspoilheap.
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I thought that while those words were in it was intended that you could increase the size of yourspoilheap.
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The only thing a mineral owner can do is to increase the height, or something of that sort, of hisspoilheap.
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I fully accept that not all materials in spoil heaps are suitable for this purpose, and that there are certain rating difficulties in usingspoilheapmaterials.
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Exchequer assistance is available where thespoilheapis in a development district or in a national park or area of outstanding natural beauty.
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Any of us familiar with coalfield areas will be familiar with the impact that coal mining can have on rivers and streams—a working mine, aspoilheap, a blackened river.
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I am not quite sure what the position is when he wants anotherspoilheapor wants another area of land upon which to deposit his spoil.
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The shale which came out of the pits, had it not been made—and it was suitable for the purpose—into bricks, would have gone on thespoilheap, disfiguring the countryside.
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Also, the ground is famous for being overlooked by the huge collieryspoilheap.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A rescue dig in 1989-1991 failed to find the chapel, which was surmised to be under an industrialspoilheapto the south.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Each pit has aspoilheapnearby, usually in the shape of a crescent on the downhill side of the pit.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thespoilheapof excavated soil can be 50cm 0 across and 12cm 0 high.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There is a large bing (spent shalespoilheap) in the village.
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