Residents around Straitgate Farm have been subjected to years of blight from Aggregate Industries’ quarry plans for the site, first lodged in 2015 and still not implemented as we approach the end of 2024.
Now it transpires that the company has subjected another community to extraordinary delays, this time near Banknock in North Lanarkshire, where plans were first lodged with the local authorities 12 years ago to extract 350,000 tonnes of hard rock per year from Tomfyne Farm, Banton over a 21-year period.
It’s almost as if Aggregate Industries just couldn’t care.
Last month, the headline in the Falkirk Herald read "Falkirk area villagers rocked by quarry concerns as 2012 plans resurface":
According to online planning documents from September this year, there has been a “protracted period of discussions with a number of parties” connected to Tomfyne and Cowdenhill which have only recently been concluded and which led to the long delay in bringing matters to a close on the proposed application all those years before.
Aggregate Industries’ planning application 12/00729/FUL Tomfyne Farm, Banton, North Lanarkshire G65 0RJ can be found here.
