Three year extension agreed over Happendon Wood development
The extension was rubber stamped at a South Lanarkshire Council planning committee meeting last Tuesday.
The plans, which were submitted back in 2010 by SRG Estates, were given planning permission the following March.
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Hide AdHowever, since then SRG, part of the Scottish Coal Group, has gone into liquidation.
New owners Hargreaves Surface Mining Ltd re-submitted the plans to South Lanarkshire Council in March.
According to the original planning document, more than 1700 jobs would be created if the huge development gets off the ground.