South Yorkshire Times, November 21.
Limestone Fissures or Mining?
The Council Proposed to Find Out.
Committees Suggestion if claims are rejected.
Conisbrough Council are determined to do something for residents of houses in Conan Road and Warren Road, houses, which for years have been affected by subsidence.
Cracks in the walls, ceilings and floors of the houses have brought worry and had worked for the household will stop doors and windows stick and it is one long round of patching and repairing.
Boards Replied.
Twice the counsel submitted claims for compensation to the National Call Ball, but each time the NCB have rejected them and have said there has been no recent mine working in the vicinity.
Now, however, the Council have decided to re-open the claims with the Board, and will act on a recommendation of the Housing Committee that if the claims are again rejected the Council should Institute, an independent survey.
Apart from Certain Areas.
Cllr George Cheshire, Chairman of the Council, told the “South Yorkshire Times,” “Apart from certain areas, Conisbrough, has been surprisingly free from subsidence problems in the last few years, but we feel that something should be done about the plight of residents in Conan road and Warren Road.
“If the Coal Board refuse our claims this time we are going to employ a geologist to find out just what the trouble is. It had been suggested by the Board that the damage is due to Limestone fissures, but we don’t think this is the answer.”
One resident in Warren Road said, “it’s a nightmare trying to keep up with the damage here. As soon as we have patched up cracks in the kitchen we have to start on gaps in the living room wall. We just can’t keep pace with it.”
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At one house in Conan Road the bedroom ceilings have fallen in and have had to be renewed. The house is “moving” continually.
Said one of the family: “it’s hopeless trying to keep the place properly decorated. As soon as we get it looking nice, another huge cracks which the plaster and the wallpaper.”