[1] This was subsequently extended by two years in 2011 to allow an additional 2 million tonnes of coal to be mined, set to end in 2016.

[2] An additional expansion approved in 2014 saw two new pits being opened on the site, Shotton Triangle (290,000 tonnes of coal) and Shotton South West (250,000 tonnes of coal), with the end date pushed back a year to October 2017;[3][4] the land was expected to be restored by 2019.

[6] These jobs are temporary,[4] although when the mine closes some former employees may be transferred to Banks' new site at Highthorn, near Druridge Bay.

[4] Royalties from the site go to the Government, but the Blagdon Estate receives a way leave payment estimated at between three and four million pounds.

[8] Northumberlandia, which takes the form of a naked reclining female figure, was constructed as planning gain by the Banks Group to allow development of the Shotton site, and was opened as a public park in 2012.