Comment
Minerals Local Plan Issues and Options consultation
Representation ID: 30377
Received: 14/01/2018
Respondent: Mrs Jackie Armstrong
Scope on Page 4: 'Long term environmental gains can be achieved, for example, by creating wildlife habitats out of worked out quarries.'
This is not balanced - it needs to continue to say, '... however, in most open cast quarrying activities a high proportion of the former land surface is permanently replaced by open water'.
Even in well restored quarries, gains in non-wetland habitat areas (significant and valuable though they may be) are generally tiny in area compared with the productive land surface area permanently lost.
Scope on Page 4: 'Long term environmental gains can be achieved, for example, by creating wildlife habitats out of worked out quarries.'
This is not balanced - it needs to continue to say, '... however, in most open cast quarrying activities a high proportion of the former land surface is permanently replaced by open water'.
Even in well restored quarries, gains in non-wetland habitat areas (significant and valuable though they may be) are generally tiny in area compared with the productive land surface area permanently lost.