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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