§ Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold)I am grateful to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to present a petition signed by 1,500 of my Cotswold constituents urging the Deputy Prime Minister to use his powers to call for a planning application to be considered by an independent planning inspector. The application is principally concerned with the dumping of a large quantity of construction waste from outside the area into the heart of the Cotswold area of outstanding natural beauty, thus increasing heavy goods traffic on narrow and unsuitable roads. The petitioners believe that the application is environmentally unsustainable.
The petition is signed by my constituent Mrs. Charlotte Heber Percy of Eyford house, Upper Slaughter, Nr. Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
The petition states:
To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament Assembled
The Humble Petition of the Residents of the Cotswolds showeth
That Planning Application ref: CD/0165/1/S by Huntsmans Quarries Ltd. for Aggregates Recycling: Plant Area Rationalisation: Agricultural Restoration: Infilling, was passed on the 11 th November 2003 by the Gloucestershire County Council on the casting vote of the Chairman.
Wherefore your petitioners pray that your Honourable House should urge the Deputy Prime Minister to use his statutory powers to call in this application and appoint an independent inspector to consider this application.
And your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray etc.
To lie upon the Table.