Well Hill Surface Mine Planning Decision

RNS Number : 5470J

Hargreaves Services PLC

08 August 2012

 



For immediate release

8 August 2012

HARGREAVES SERVICES PLC

(the "Group" or "Hargreaves")

Well Hill Surface Mine Planning Decision

Hargreaves Services plc (AIM: HSP), the UK's leading supplier of solid fuels and bulk material logistics, is pleased to announce that Northumberland County Council has resolved to grant planning permission for the Well Hill Surface Mine, near Morpeth, subject to certain conditions and agreements.

The Well Hill site contains 130,000 tonnes of high quality coal which is planned to be extracted over a 2 year period.

Commenting on the planning decision, Chief Executive Gordon Banham said: "Although Well Hill is a small project, we are delighted to gain consent for our first site in Northumberland and to start to build on our success with the Tower project in South Wales."

For further details:

Hargreaves Services	0191 373 4485
Gordon Banham, CEO
Iain Cockburn, Finance Director
Buchanan	020 7466 5000
Tim Anderson/Fiona Henson
N+1 Brewin	020 7248 4400
Sandy Fraser/Nick Owen
Jefferies Hoare Govett	020 7029 8000
Sara Hale/Harry Nicholas

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