Residents fight plans for quarry in countryside near A59
A PETITION has been launched against plans for a quarry which residents say would ‘destroy beautiful countryside'. An application has been submitted to Lancashire County Council for a sand and mineral extraction quarry, to make concreting aggregate, on a greenfield site off the horseshoe bend on the River Ribble at Lower Hall Farm on Potters Lane in Samlesbury. Stephanie Tufft, who lives on the lane, has created the petition to try to block the plan from Harleyford Aggregates Ltd, which has a mineral lease from the owners, the Booth Charities. The petition said: “The area is rural...
Source: thisislancashire.co.uk