CAMPAIGNERS are celebrating after plans to create new quarries in several north Essex villages have been shelved.
Essex County Council’s final draft policy for quarrying in the county - due to be signed by a government minister in the summer of 2013 - has been published, detailing which sites are preferred.
Extensions to quarries in Stanway, Ardleigh, Alresford, Birch and Rivenhall are preferred as well as a new site in Witham.
But early proposals for new quarries in Ardleigh, Alresford, Fingringhoe and Frating which were preferred by council officers have now been scrapped.
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