It takes material from the quarry face to the processing plant.
It does not look like Birdcage Lane.
It does not look like Exeter Road.
It does not look like Daisymount Junction
It does not look like the A30.
It does not look like Junction 29.
It does not look like the M5
It does not look like Junction 27.
It does not look like the A38.
It does not look like Clay Lane.
A sand and gravel quarry haul road does not ever look like 46 miles on public roads, for 52,600 round trips over a period of 10-12 years.
Devon’s new Minerals Plan has taken 10 years to prepare, since the first workshop in 2007.
A decade of consultations, delays and public expense - for what?
For Devon County Council to deliver Straitgate Farm as a Preferred Area for sand and gravel quarrying that can only be worked with a 2.5 million mile haulage plan using the above public roads.
If that’s the Council’s idea of Minerals Planning, then Devon would be better off without it.
No-one would want to see a repeat of what happened in Aberdeenshire on Friday: Dad and little girl cheat death after car rammed through wall and mangled beyond recognition by lorry.
