Lush, the handmade cosmetics company, has given £5,000 to Buckfastleigh Community Forum to help its legal challenge to stop an incinerator bottom ash plant being sited in the town. Developers Gilpin Demolition and MVV Umwelt want to site the industrial waste plant at Whitecleaves Quarry in Buckfastleigh despite planning permission being rejected by Devon County Council in 2012. The two companies have appealed the decision and a Planning Inquiry is scheduled for June this year.
In 1965, Straitgate Farm near Ottery St Mary in Devon was bought by ECC Quarries in the hope it would yield 20 million tonnes of sand & gravel. In 2001, Straitgate Action Group was formed to oppose the development and its potential harm to water supplies, ancient wetland habitats, protected species and much more. In 2023, Aggregate Industries – owned by Swiss giant Holcim – was finally granted permission to quarry just 1 million tonnes following a public inquiry. This blog records the story.
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Lush backs Buckfastleigh fight v industrial waste plant at Whitecleaves Quarry
From today's Plymouth Herald: