§ Mr. BettsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will make available to the National Audit Office, all agreements relating to the building of an airport at Tinsley, Sheffield. [25868]
(2) if he will make available to the National Audit Office all agreements relating to opencasting at Tinsley, Sheffield. [25869]
§ Sir Paul BeresfordNo request has been received from the NAO for information relating to the building of an airport or the opencasting at Tinsley, Sheffield.
§ Mr. Clive BettsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will place in the Library all agreements relating to the operating at Tinsley, Sheffield; [25870]
(2) if he will place in the Library all the agreements relating to the building of an airport at Tinsley, Sheffield; [25871]
(3) if he will place in the Library such information held by Sheffield development corporation in respect of opencasting at Tinsley, Sheffield as would have been publicly available if the opencasting had been the responsibility of a local authority; [25872]
(4) if he will place in the Library information in respect of Tinsley airport such as would have been publicly available had the development been the responsibility of a local authority. [25873]
§ Sir Paul BeresfordDocumentation relating to the planning decisions for the open casting and the building of an airport at Tinsley is available for inspection at the offices of Sheffield city council and Sheffield development corporation.
Documentation relating to the development, rather than the planning decisions, at Tinsley is commercially confidential and is not publically available.
§ Mr. Clive BettsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will undertake an investigation to determine if the land at Tinsley, Sheffield being prepared for building an airport runway has been properly compacted following opencasting. [25874]
§ Sir Paul BeresfordIt is for Sheffield development corporation as landowner and local planning authority to be satisfied that the land at Tinsley has been properly compacted in accordance with the planning conditions.
§ Mr. BettsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment which body currently has responsibility for defects resulting from compaction work on the opencast site at Tinsley, Sheffield. [25875]
§ Sir Paul BeresfordBritish Coal retains responsibility to deal with defects resulting from the compaction of the site.