New Hucknall Colliery

Nottinghamshire County Council gained a profitable interest when purchasing disused 1986 lands included the Huthwaite pit tip. A rear access roundabout route was achieved from Huthwaite by extending an old farm lane stretching southward off Sutton Road.

Surfacing that lane beyond a Whitemeadows Upholstery factory appears to since share Maycroft Gardens roadway addressing alongside 2002 construction of five cornering bungalows on former farmlands. Behind stands a substation plus a communications mast serving recent modernisations, which furthermore demanded waste landfills while promoting reduced need through recycling.

Sutton Household Waste & Recycling Centre

Even that well used waste disposal facility didn't eradicate all local fly tipping. What great shame hearing a 2004 Ashfield District worker unfortunately claim need to clear a fuller lorry load of dumped garbage just off the maturing Brierley Forest Park.

Twinned left side compound gates realised where the extended roadway suited busier two way HGV traffic. Curving rear entry onto the former pit tip merited necessary landfill disposal of this counties general household bin waste. Overlooking 2000 developments noted just a colourful difference. A few years later began exposing an untidier expanding scar attracting scavenging flocks of gulls.

Elders disgust sighting the litter strewn landscape hadn't deterred those purchasing nearer new Huthwaite housing along the facing Mill Lane estate. Unsightly progress wasn't a public choice, but only real complaint came from greater frequency of heavier lorries among already busier Sutton Road traffic causing frighteningly hazardous walks across, especially with infant school children.

It transpired this Huthwaite sited landfill later accepted bulk deliveries from way beyond Nottinghamshire bin collections. Additional streams of HGV's worsened an accident prone Blackwell Road crossroad. Despite initial reluctance for such expenditure, Labour County Cllr David Kirkham eventually forwarded proposed action that jointly resulted with their proud opening of 2004 traffic lights.

Year 2000 Market Place car park turned into the Huthwaite recycling centre may introduce that further covered subject. Familiar distant views over All Saints church hall ended up blocked by its 2006 replacement, just before welcoming a greener landscape.

Huthwaite pedestrians felt greater relief after rumours this landfill was destined for closure did confirm end was planned 2006. That extremely surprising news came quicker than imagined possible, while seemingly defying national TV reportage repeating national concerns regarding where to continue burying millions of future tonnes of British household rubbish in bigger landfills. Unexplained reasons for closure raised no local public intrigue when welcoming proposals to plant another Greenwood Community Forest park.

Postponing landfill closure for another year didn't stop some work commencing on a larger Rookery Park transformation. Looking at 2006 works northward from neighbouring Fulwood kept up a pleasanter scene than witnessed from Huthwaite. Addressing The Rookery on past Dirty Hucknall Commons predated sinking the pit. Owners had renamed that Rookery Lane Farm at NG17 1JH.

Presence of a digger overlooking final 2011 expansion of the Huthwaite Mill Lane housing estate along Harvest Lane still kept work apparently layering a suitable protective base covering landfill waste. That central heap formed just small part the parks acreage.