We’ve posted about Aggregate Industries’ Greystone Quarry near Launceston in Cornwall before.
In the company’s planning application for Straitgate Farm, AI claimed that supplying high PSV material from Straitgate would involve less transportation than its alternative high PSV source at Greystone. The claim was wrong, and we showed that each load of high PSV material from Straitgate would entail 417 miles of transportation for production alone – before any onward delivery – leading to overall haulage distances over three times the return-trip distance of material from Greystone.
At the end of 2016, AI lodged an application to extend Greystone. As we posted in December 2017 – and despite objections, including from DCC:
Aggregate Industries couldn’t believe its luck, no doubt, when its planning application for a 10 million tonne quarry extension within the Tamar Valley AONB was approved by Cornwall Council in September. The application PA16/10746 had been validated the previous November. The approval extends the life of Greystone Quarry near Launceston to 2066 and requires the stopping up of a public highway.
In relation to that stopping up of a public highway, BBC Devon & Cornwall reminds us that the public inquiry starts today:
