You might have thought Aggregate Industries would have its ducks in a row after all this time.
But no. More than 7 years on from its first application, Aggregate Industries is still supplying information in an effort to prop up its planning application to quarry Straitgate Farm.
The additional information was requested by the Planning Inspectorate in August, as we posted.
Today, just days before the Planning Inquiry starts, a raft of new documents has been accepted by the Planning Inspectorate, and 21 days of public consultation on this information will now begin. As usual, it contains the normal clangers we have come to expect from Aggregate Industries.
The information supplied is CD4.85 to CD4.91 in this document list.
The Planning Inspectorate says:
The Inspector will be mindful of the dates at which the Council and Rule 6 party has received the further information (relative to the Inquiry start date) and in opening the Inquiry will ask for the parties’ views on whether they require additional time for preparation of their evidence. An appropriate allowance will be made for this.Although publicity of further information in accordance with Regulation 22 of the 2011 EIA Regulations is not a statutory requirement for appeals going by hearing or inquiry, the Appellant is going to be running a publicity/consultation exercise on the further information, which we anticipate will close 21 days after publication of a newspaper notice (EIA Reg 22(3) refers). Interested parties could therefore submit any additional comments on the further information as part of that consultation process.
