Restoration of Pitstone Quarry (comments on the planning application can be submitted until 9/1/25)

Please find below a copy of the presentation given by AA Environmental Ltd on behalf of Clark Contracting Ltd, at the Parish Council planning committee meeting on 2/1/25, regarding their planning application detailed below. This information was also available via their display stands to members of public at the drop in consultation session they hosted from 5-7pm on the same evening.

Pitstone Quarry Restoration Jan 2025 presentationDownload

Our thanks to all the members of the public that attended, from both our parish and our neighbouring parishes.

The planning proposal is entitled: The importation of inert material and the revised working of permitted chalk reserves for use in the restoration of Pitstone Quarry with enhanced landscaping and biodiversity measures, and to create a new outdoor recreation resource, with a network of footpaths, open water swimming lake, welfare units and car parking facilities, for use in part as a Suitable Alternative Natural Green Space (SANG).

The principal documents (in a more accessible format than those on the planning portals) are available on the project website: https://pitstone-quarry.co.uk/supporting-documents/ If anyone in the Parish has any specific request for documents this can be made to the project email pitstonerestoration@aae-ltd.co.uk and one of the Project Team will respond.

The full planning application submission is on both of the planning authority portals. This includes the design principles, master plans, the visualisations showing how the restoration will develop over time, the Environmental Statement Non-Technical Summary and a link to the Environmental Statement.

The formal planning application details are as follows:

Buckinghamshire County Council –https://publicaccess.buckscc.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=SLE6VLDS06500&activeTab=summary

Hertfordshire County Council planning application reference is PL/0426/24 and can be accessed here

Comments can be submitted to either/both planning authorities until 9 January 2025.

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