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Residents angered by potential plans for gravel extraction in Dorset might have won a small battle to prevent the Roeshot site being utilised by DCC. At a meeting of the joint advisory committee for the minerals and waste policy in March, members were told about the results of the consultation process that had taken place last year. According to the report from that meeting, the roeshot site, which borders Burton, the Grange and West Highcliffe, was the second most cotroversial site in the review.

Tomorrow evening (20th January) I shall be presenting a petition to Christchurch Borough Council (CBC) on behalf of the residents of Burton regarding the poor level of publicity afforded to the residents of Burton prior to the briefing by Dorset County Council on the 20th November last about the proposal to extract gravel and sand from land adjacent to the village.

The purpose of the petition is:

to notify CBC the strength of feeling being expressed by the residents of the village with a request that we should be fully consulted in all future discussions concerning the proposal

There is a petition to sign at the Post Office in Burton for anyone who wants to object.
Please sign it.
It all helps to let the council know that we do not want a huge quarry on our doorstep.

Please note though, that an individual letter is a stronger statement than a signature and the more of those the council receives the better!

Although the initial 12th December deadline is passed you can still act against the gravel site if you wish.

Please write, email or call DCC with your questions, comments and objections.

The more they hear from us, the less likely we are to have the site on our doorsteps.

Thanks to Andrew Johnson (info@wrage.co.uk) for supplying the details of the meeting seen below;

The meeting was called by the Grange councillor Denise Jones, who spoke about the impact the site would have in Somerford and Grange, mostly problems with dust, pollution and traffic. The number of lorries was estimated to be at least 80 in and 80 out each day!

There was a meeting about the proposals at 7pm in Somerford on Monday, in the Community Hall. Unfortunately I didn't find out until it was over and so missed it.

If anyone has any info about it please do let me know, or post it to this website.

We have until 12th December to make our concerns heard.

Write to Dorset County Council at.
Minerals and Waste Policy,
Team Planning Division
Environmental Services
County Hall,
Colliton Park
Dorchester
DT1 1XJ

or email;
mwdf@dorsetcc.gov.uk

Reference ; Site MSAD AS13 Roeshot

Ask them to;

Ensure your comments/objections are considered.
Re-examine all previous comments/objections.
Remove Roeshot from the list of potential sites.