In November the Peak District National Park Authority was authorised to make a Revocation Order to prevent the resumption of mineral working at Wattscliffe Quarry, on Harthill Moor between the villages of Elton and Alport.In 1998 it was resolved that a planning application for an exchange to the planning area at Wattscliffe Quarry be approved, to vary the permitted area of the existing quarry in order to safeguard certain sensitive areas of the site from being worked. Quarrying at the site had taken place under the terms of a Ministerial consent granted in 1952. A S106 agreement secured relinquishment of the original 1952 consent without the claim for any compensation and restrictions on the use of the gritstone to building uses only (ie not to be used as aggregate). The S106 agreement was completed in May 2000 and the new planning permission issued accordingly. The quarry is now being worked under a set of full modern conditions and the new planning permission supersedes the 1952 consent.
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