Last month, Devon County Council approved Tungsten West’s secondary aggregates plans for Hemerdon Mine, plans that were last posted about here.
Tungsten West’s planning application was:
Variation of Condition 19 of planning permission 9/42/49/0542/85/3 (DCC/3823/2015) (dated 16 February 2017) to remove weekly and annual tonnage caps on the export of secondary aggregates and to amend the condition to introduce restrictions on hours of export and prohibit exports at the weekend and on bank holidays, Hemerdon Mine, Plympton
The Officer's Report can be found here.
Under Need and Market Considerations, the Council made the case that:
7.10 The Devon Minerals Planning Monitoring Report 2021 (February 2023) reports that the MPA are underdelivering on their objective to have a 20% proportion of total sales of land won and secondary aggregates within wider Devon accounted for by secondary aggregates, with the latest figure stated as 17.7%.
Later in December, Tungsten West announced a £1.8m lifeline, and then a £9.1m loss.
Plymouth's tungsten mine in danger of going bust https://t.co/BXLNSYrS0d https://t.co/BXLNSYrS0d
— Plymouth Live (@Plymouth_Live) December 22, 2023
