“I’d like decision makers to come out first of all… to the land… to what they are going to decide on… Listen to us. We’ve lived here all our lives. It does affect us greatly.
Just do not decide from afar without coming and seeing what you are deciding on.”
Billy Collins, Local resident and campaigner
Conisbrough and Denaby Main, Doncaster
Hear more from Billy here:
A research participant described the challenges of privately owned land remaining vacant and becoming a hotspot for flytipping.
A research participant shared that “Miners have viewed the binds as a way to divide and disassociate the community from the pit. They were very much against them.”
With a recent build of a large warehouse next to the colliery headstocks, in between the community of Stainforth and the heastocks, the warehouse could be seen as a bind.
