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Forum post from Venutius repeated here as it's important:
I'm getting increasingly excited about this, because I think there is now a chink in the armour.
Tarmac persuaded EH, NYCC and others that no further nationally important archaeology would be found on the revised quarry site. They agreed with Tarmac that during the Neolithic that area would be under water. As a result, permission was granted.
Tarmac have however now proven that assumption to be false. If you check out the site diary for Ladybridge (if you find the right one) you will see that at the end of last year Tarmac started the pre-quarrying archaeology and started discovering Neolithic settlement pits. Tarmac's archaeologists do not appear to be too impressed with our neolithic remains, but none the less, it was the presence of those pits that got the original application refused and caused Tarmac to provide the revised plan. The work has now stopped, hopefully too late for this not to be regarded as a material change to the circumstances of the site.
Now that the last decision has been quashed, clearly pointing out these facts in a loud enough voice, with the support of names, should mean the council should fall back to the original decision since it can now be shown that the spread of Neolithic remains spreads over more of the site than previously thought.
Anyway, I believe that we need to get as many people as possible pointing out to NYCC that the discovery of the Neolithic archaeology (1) constitutes a material change to the application, and (2) that they consider this archaeology of national significance and for that reason the application should be rejected when it comes before the planning committee on April 22nd.
I'm pulling together more specific details, but my advice is to get a letter of objection sent to NYCC as soon as possible - time is running fast right now and the council will want all representations in two weeks before the meeting.
Furthermore, I think it would be very useful for questions to be asked of English Heritage about the Neolithic remains that were recently found. If I know the system, it's likely they do not know about the archaeology because no-one has told them yet. In addition, experience tends to suggest that EH only react when there's danger of public embarrasment, so the more people letting them know that they know is all the better.
The address for objections is:
Mr C.Jarvis,
Environmental Services,
Planning & Countryside Unit,
County Hall,
Northallerton DL7 8AH
The letter must reference the application number, which is the same as last time - C2/29/500/53
Some additional incoming information: I'm informed that there have been chages to planning rules at a European level that mean heritage landscapes get better protection. I'm still trying to pull that lot together.
By the way, if as I suggest, these new pits further extend the Ladybridge Temporary camp, then it's definately a contender for the largest in Britain.
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road