§ Mr. Philip BellMr. Speaker, I crave leave to present to the honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled the humble Petition of the undersigned owners and/or occupiers of hereditaments situated in areas affected by subsidence resulting from the working and getting of coal and other minerals worked with coal.
There are no fewer than 55,000 individual signatures to this Petition, and the signatures include those of the mayors and councillors of 30 boroughs, trade councils, chambers of commerce and Co-operative societies in the mining districts of England and Wales.
1924 Your Petitioners ask that a Bill may be introduced and passed into law to bring into effect all the recommendations made in 1947 by the Committee on Mining Subsidence under the chairmanship of Mr. Theodore Turner, Q.C., and also to provide that all those suffering damage, loss or hardship resulting from coalmining should be fully and fairly compensated, including in particular the cost of alternative accommodation during the execution of repairs to hereditaments affected by subsidence and of all removal and other expenses connected therewith; the loss of capital value suffered by any hereditaments affected by subsidence; the reduction in rating assessments for all hereditaments affected by subsidence; and the loss of profit and/or goodwill suffered by the owners or occupiers carrying on a trade or business in a hereditament affected by subsidence.
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The Petition concludes:
And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
§ Mr. SwinglerMr. Speaker, on behalf of 9,000 of my constituents, I beg leave to be associated with the presentation of this Petition.
§ To lie upon the Table.