Opencast coal working and the search for a national land‐use strategy in post‐war Britain

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Abstract
The post‐war years have been characterized as the time when conviction gave way to pragmatism in land‐use planning. Of the many types of planning practiced in Britain at that time, this paper focuses on the new industry of opencast coal working, and the way in which it impinged on the water industry, amenity interests and farming. It highlights the manner in which precedents were established by Ministers and their officials in the search for a basis of compromise, upon which national strategies for the wise use of land and energy resources could be reconciled.