Swanworth Quarry Extension Planning Application

Suttles are applying to extend the Swanworth Quarry so that we can continue to quarry and provide our crushed stone to local businesses and residents.

With our Swanworth Quarry reserves coming to an end, we need to extend our quarry to:

  • protect the future of our business,
  • protect the people we employ now and for generations to come,
  • protect the future of local businesses who rely on our service,
  • minimise the carbon footprint by maintaining local deliveries of Dorset crushed limestone from our local quarry. Keeping deliveries local will save thousands of tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.

What’s New?

Over a period of years, we have been working closely with Dorset Council Planning Department and in the past few weeks, we were able to agree the latest additional pieces of information they requested.  These include:

  • A combined package of over 40 hectares of biodiversity habitat provision with an increased 30 years of aftercare management (previously this was around 20 hectares and 5 years for the existing quarry).
  • A landscape/visual environment fund provided by us amounting to approximately £250,000 over the 25 year lifetime of the quarry extension for community use.
  • A project to permanently improve the resilience and quality of Kingston village’s water supply in collaboration with the current provider.

As a result of this additional information, the application is again open to comments from the public via the Dorset County Council portal before 5th September.  The comments will then be reviewed before the planning committee meeting takes place later this year, where a decision will be made.

How You Can Comment

The application will ultimately be decided on in the coming months.

We would be very grateful if you could comment in support of the application by 5th September – the Dorset Council portal link is here: https://planning.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/plandisp.aspx?recno=386707

Thank you – we really appreciate your help and support.

John Suttle,

Director at Suttle Stone Quarries

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