Production finally ceased at Hatfield Main in 2004. Current proposals (2006) to introduce a 'coal gasification plant' would (if successful) reintroduce mining to the pit by 2009, although the proposals would involve the demolition of the current above ground buildings and washing of the colliery spoil tips and their replacement with a 'power park' industrial estate resulting in "dramatic changes to the setting of the surviving pithead elements" (Lakin 2002, 19). Analysis of Haywood's plan (1825) of the area, does not suggest Parliamentary enclosure of this area. The irregularly bounded enclosures shown are not associated with 't-marks', suggesting pre-existing boundaries, nor are there details as to the ownership of these units. Nearby placenames such as 'Nettleholmes' and 'Carr' suggest previous land uses as wetland common - land uses that would have suited the alluvial soils of this area (see drift geological plan in Lakin 2002, Fig 2). No legibility of earlier land uses.