Aggregate Industries’ planning application to extend its Chard Junction Quarry at Westford Park Farm in the Dorset AONB, WD/D/19/000451, was refused last year by Dorset Council.
Aggregate Industries decided to appeal the decision, and a 6-day Planning Inquiry was held between 23 August and 1 September, reference APP/D1265/W/22/3295006.
The Planning Inspectorate has today dismissed the appeal: