Bulcote Farm

Above: Tarmac’s planning application site - click for large version

Left: The planning application – the public are given four weeks to make their comments or objections.

In July 2002, Tarmac Central Ltd submitted a planning application to extract sand and gravel and to establish a sewage composting plant on the site shown in orange on the map. Since that time, Burton Joyce Residents' Association has worked in co-operation with Bulcote Residents’ Action Group (now Bulcote Conservation Trust) and Gunthorpe Environmental and Flood Alleviation Group to oppose this application for all the reasons given in the page on the Nottinghamshire Minerals Local Plan on this site. Following hundreds of objections to the application and issues raised by local organisations and residents, Nottinghamshire County Council wrote to the applicant in April 2003 setting out a range of issues that they must resolve before pursuing their application further. The applicant was asked to resubmit the application when all the issues have been resolved. So far the re-submission has not been made.

Throughout this time, the Environment Department has made occasional reports to Nottinghamshire County Council’s Planning and Licensing Committee. Reports always suggested that the applicant was on the verge of completing his explorations and was about the resubmit the application. At no time was this true. The reports never revealed the complexity of the problems relating to the site to Committee Members.

At its meeting in June 2006, the Planning and Licensing Committee unanimously approved a proposal that the applicant be directed to resubmit the application by 31 August 2006 – or the application will be determined on the data submitted in July 2002.

On 7 September 2006, Tarmac withdrew this application stating that they wished to review the proposed development with a view to resubmitting an application in the future.