NORTH LEIGH PARK – CRITICAL DISTANCES

A

C

B

GADBURY

FOLD

DISTANCES

(A-B-C measured on line

of proposed new internal

road system)

A-B 1200m

A-C 1427m

B-C 1153m

B- Gadbury 1780m

NORTH LEIGH PARK – CRITICAL DISTANCES

A

C

B

GADBURY

FOLD

DISTANCES

(A-B-C measured on

surrounding road system)

A-B 1710m

A-C 1380m

B-C 1450m

B- Gadbury 1780m

North Leigh Park Previous Industrial Uses.

The North Leigh Park Site has had a varied industrial past with such uses having been

recorded on Ordnance Survey plans as early as 1848, over 160 6ears ago. Previous uses have

left the whole area scarred and unsafe with contamination and ground collapse being a

major concern to the health and safety of the users of the site.

The previous industrial uses of the site include the following:

1. Coal mining – both deep, shallow and impromptu bell pits. Some 37 shafts are

recorded on site, none of which can be confirmed to have been infilled and capped

to the appropriate standard.

2. Colliery waste storage from other sites - the material being imported via a mineral

railway that ran north-south on the site. the main source of the imported material

being Parsonage Colliery some 1500m to the south

3. Sand extraction - quarries located to both the north and to south of centre of the

site.

4. Clay extraction for brick making activities.

5. Brick manufacturing at the Hindley Green Plastic Brick Company works located to the

south of centre of the site

6. Industrial waste management and landfill operations utilising former quarry

workings for the deposition of industrial wastes and possibly household waste.

7. Scrap yard uses processing scrap metal for onward sale. This activity was carried out

in two locations.

8. Vehicle breaking producing tyre waste, oil wastes, plastics and metals for processing.

9. Skip hire and waste transfer activities involving the sorting and storage of various

wastes and soils.

10. Main line and mineral railways running both east-west and north-south across the

site.

11. Sewage treatment works.