Thursday, 1 May 2025

Holcim UK’s Straitgate updates for February and March and now April – still awaited

Yes, you guessed it. Still no news. 

Holcim UK – formerly Aggregate Industries – has, for the third month running, not provided any update in relation to implementing its planning permission to quarry Straitgate Farm – monthly updates the company agreed to provide to us back in 2023

It’s obviously too much to hope that Holcim UK – part of the world’s largest cement conglomerate – would have the decency to keep local people informed of its plans, when something as damaging as a million-tonne sand and gravel quarry is about to land on their doorstep. 

Holcim UK plainly couldn’t care less, whatever its empty words proclaim
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Anyway, there is still no activity on site, and the monthly monitoring of boreholes and private water supplies – a requirement of the UU legal agreement – has not been undertaken since January.  

In fact, there has been no meaningful news from the company since last September, and Holcim UK now has just 8 months before its permission expires. 

As before, any update the company bothers to supply us will be posted below.