In November 2017, we posted More delays to come, and warned:
Aggregate Industries’ planning application to quarry Straitgate is unlikely to be determined anytime soon.
Lo and behold, more delays is what we got. In February of this year, we posted Delayed again. FIVE YEARS ON, how much time does AI need?
This week we were told, and the answer is apparently 7 months:
I confirm on behalf of Aggregate Industries that we are happy to agree to an extension for the period of determination from 31st March 2020 to 31st October 2020.
What will be achieved in these months – in the face of a global pandemic and the economic depression that will inevitably follow – that wasn’t achieved during the other months since the application first went live in June 2015? No one would be surprised if the answer were somewhere between zero and nothing.
