Aggregate Industries has been operating its asphalt plant at Rockbeare without planning permission since 2014, and arguably for some considerable time before that too; we’ve posted on the issue before.
AI submitted a planning application in 2016 to continue operations, despite the fact that production of aggregate feedstock is no longer carried out at Rockbeare or anywhere nearby.
Last year DCC had hoped to "be in a position to determine the application before Christmas, but if not then early in the new year."
As of this week the application has still not been determined.
DCC is waiting for AI to agree a S106 agreement for biodiversity offsetting, since, if approved, this part of Rockbeare would obviously not be "restored... in the interests of visual amenity" as originally intended.
As we said last year, any biodiversity gain for an unspecified location elsewhere in Devon will be Rockbeare’s loss.
