Sibelco want to carve up 1000+ acres of Norfolk countryside to create UK’s largest Silica Sand Quarry. So huge Wembley Stadium could fit in the area 97 times.
This is one of several sites they want to extract silica sand from in the UK.
Needless to say the residents in two villages’ adjacent are up in arms about this proposal.
Regarding the recently approved quarry made by Cheshire West along with Cheshire East.
It’s now emerging that due process may not have been followed by Cheshire West in that the councillors were asked to make a decision based on incomplete details, and were advised that responses to environmental reports were still awaited.
This may well form the basis of a judicial review or legal action, in that the meeting should have been deferred till such time the council had all the information to include it in the report made to councillors prior to them making a decision.
If that is true, then a further meeting should be arranged to discuss the situation in more depth and if it is found that the application to quarry is not in our interest the previous decision be overturned.
it is absolutely true she can see it for herself by looking on the Cheshire west web page video of the meeting where its stated by the planning officers that when they have the responses from environment agency if they are contra to the planners recommendations it may be put to the meeting again, the likely hood of this happening are zero, but it should have meant that the decision was postponed yet again till such time all the information was made available.
when you have one councillor asking how long has the production plant been there, this after a site visit that shows no such equipment exists, and another asking how much material is going to be brought in to fill the quarry and having to be told twice it’s a lake, it doesn’t fill you with confidence that those charged with making this huge decision have actually read any reports or looked at the plans, nor was any explanation given by the planners at the meeting to the general public present despite having a projection of the plans on a screen, perhaps if it had been used the councillors may have understood it more.