January 28th, 2010
Unfortunately the ordering of the consultee responses, on the Bolton council website, have been corrupted and therefore no longer follow date ordering.
The links to the GMEU and GMGU comments are given below. As you will see it would appear that they have been mislead into believing this is about a ROMP permission, with the safeguards this presents. . . . → Read More: Pilkington Quarry 83299/99
December 6th, 2009
This new application seeks to change the permitted quarrying operation from 2007 to 2042.
We are still questioning why the quarry has been allowed to operate without active planning permission.
We also question why you would need to extend the operational life of a quarry which finished extracting stone over three years ago.
It would be beneficial if you would make . . . → Read More: Pilkington Quarry 83299/09 ………………………. “Comment on the Quarry”
October 28th, 2009
The officers report is now on-line, with a recommendation to approve the application.
We would encourage anyone reading this article to read the reponses from the consultees (not all are available on-line !) and try to reconcile this with the report and the attached conditions.
(The planning application link on the right hand side will take you to . . . → Read More: Pilkington Quarry , Makinson Lane, Horwich 80931/08 (update)
October 9th, 2009
Public planning meeting Bolton Town Hall. Thursday 29 October at 14:00
Site visit Thursday 29 October 10:10
This application has been discussed for sometime.
There are a large number of changes from the original application, which proposes to extract over three million tonnes of aggregate from the quarry and also process aggregate from external sources, in a 1.5 hectare site.
The application . . . → Read More: Pilkington Quarry , Makinson Lane, Horwich 80931/08