Walley’s Quarry Ltd have made a planning application to allow waste carrying vehicles to park on an internal road at the landfill between 6am and 7am, Monday to Friday, excluding bank holidays and public holidays. The full application is live and can be viewed via Staffordshire County Council's website.
If approved, it would allow 12 vehicles to park on the site of the landfill. Please note that the application only refers to potential changes to the time vehicles can park on the site. No changes are proposed to the number of HGVs entering or leaving Walley's Quarry (880 movements per week) and there are no changes suggested to operating hours i.e. the times at which vehicles tip.
I have submitted my comments to the Council as per the attached screenshot. Because of the inconvenience these HGVs have been causing and my increasing concern about the risk of a serious accident, I have broadly supported the application.
However, I do have concerns that the proposed change could merely push the problem forward by an hour, with HGVs parking and queuing outside the site between 5 and 6am. This would be less of a traffic problem, but potentially more disruptive to people's sleep. I have urged the Planning Officers & Committee to prevent this from happening.
You can submit your own observations on, support of or objections to the application via the link. The deadline is 24th August 2022.