Property development update

UK Coal PLC
13 December 2006



                                  UK COAL PLC


• Planning permission granted for 60 acre Waverley business park

• Planning application being made for Prince of Wales, Pontefract development

London, December 13, 2006:  UK COAL PLC ('UK COAL') today announces that
planning permission has been granted for its proposed 60 acre business park at
Waverley, South Yorkshire, by Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council. The
business park will comprise some 650,000 sq feet (60,000 sq metres) of mixed
Business, General Industrial, Storage and Distribution, Hotel and Ancillary
Leisure and Retail space.

UK COAL today also announces that it has held substantial pre-application
negotiations with Wakefield Metropolitan Borough Council and that, next week, it
will be submitting to the Authority the Planning Application for the
redevelopment of its Prince of Wales site at Pontefract in West Yorkshire.  The
Application will contain proposals for developing over 900 homes and some
250,000 sq ft of employment space and community facilities.  Planning approval
is anticipated in the second quarter of 2007.

Jon Lloyd, UK COAL Director of Property, commented:

'These are two of the core developments we highlighted in our November Property
Strategy presentation, and we are delighted at the support we are receiving from
Rotherham and the constructive discussions we have had with Wakefield Planning
Authorities.'


Enquiries:

UK COAL                                   Tel:  [phone]
Stuart Oliver                             Mob:  [phone]

Citigate Dewe Rogerson                    Tel:  [phone]
Anthony Carlisle                          Mob:  [phone]
Laure Lagrange                            Mob:  [phone]



Notes to Editors:

1. Highfield Commercial Business Park

This consent forms the first phase of the intended regeneration of the Waverley/ 
Orgreave area of Rotherham which in due course targets to provide
approximately 4,000 new homes and up to a million square feet of employment
space with ancillary leisure, retail and community facility development.


2. Prince of Wales, Pontefract

The Application will be made on 21 December and follows several months of
consultation with Stakeholders and detailed negotiations with senior officers of
Wakefield Metropolitan Borough Council with whom UK COAL entered into a
Regeneration Partnership Agreement in the middle of 2006.  The scheme is
intended by UK COAL to represent an exemplar for the principles of sustainable
development with major economic benefits to the Wakefield Five Towns renaissance
area.





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