Nearly three months have elapsed since Aggregate Industries was granted planning permission to quarry Straitgate Farm.
As previously posted, the company must satisfy a number of pre-commencement conditions and obligations before any mineral extraction can start, which is not expected before 2025.
Last month, we asked Aggregate Industries to provide monthly updates by email "to include what AI has done at or involving Straitgate over the previous month and what AI is planning for the following month and future dates."
The company agreed, but warned "the next few months may be relatively quiet as we decide the way forward."
Aggregate Industries' Planning Manager has this week provided the following update for March:
Further to my email of the 20th February I am just getting in touch with an update on where we are.As you are aware we met with some of the local PWS owners on the 8 March and we undertook to respond to the matters raised at that meeting. I am currently working on this response and I hope to be in a position to contact all PWS owners with our response in early April, most likely after Easter, but when I have a firm date I will let you know.On other matters we have also met with Devon rights of way to discuss the proposed additions to the rights of way network in the application.In the meantime if you have any queries by all means get in touch.
