A COMMUNITY is frustrated over controversial plans to use a nearby quarry for waste materials.

Residents continue to fight in Graianrhyd against a planning application to fill a nearby quarry in and have a new entrance from the main village road.

A revised application has now been submitted by G and K Edwards, owners of the Maes Y Droell, Graianrhyd who are applying “to import inert waste materials, to process and recycle these where possible, and to use the remainder as part of the infilling and restoration of the worked-out areas of the quarry”.

Ceris Jones, who has lived in Graianrhyd for 45 years said: “We are astounded that in this proposal the restoration plan is combined with the siting of a recycling facility within the quarry workings.

“Dust, noise and vibration will continue to be problem areas as this proposal moves all the reclamation and re-cycling activities closer to residential and business properties.”

Graianrhyd residents had a meeting to discuss the revised plans last week and are in support of a restoration project but believe the recycling activity is inappropriate.

The revised plan proposes for a new entrance to the quarry from the main Graianrhyd village road, opposite residential homes.

Ceris said: “The road is already used by HGVs accessing the Maes y Droell sand quarry and the Lefarge limestone quarry many of which exceed the 30mph speed limit through the village.

“The thought of up to another 50 HGVs using the road is frightening. Little if any consideration seems to have been paid to the number of other road users.”

G and K Edwards’ agent Stephen Blunt from technical advisors, Richards, Moorehead & Laing Ltd, said: “Without imported material the quarry cannot be restored. At the proposed rate of working, the restoration of the existing quarry to the designed landform would take approximately 18 years of continuous operation. The average number of loads into the site would be 21 per working day.”

The plans will be discussed in tonight’s (November 7) Community Council Meeting in the Dewi Sant Community Centre in Eryrys at 7pm.