Objections to the Ballystockart Quarry Expansion

28/04/2024

Our neighbour Deborah Robinson spoke at the Belfast City Hall, Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland talk on “Belfast Exposed”. Quarries around Belfast are damaging our environment and air to export the majority of our rock abroad.

Please submit your objection by clicking:

https://planningregister.planningsystemni.gov.uk/application/579801/add-comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ybX4jOqqJs

An exposé of the issues from the burgeoning quarrying industry around the Greater Belfast area.

24/04/2024

A great session. Keep those objections coming at

https://planningregister.planningsystemni.gov.uk/application/579801/add-comment

22/04/2024

This event is an exposé of environmental justice issues in Greater Belfast.

02/11/2023

Are you ok with this???

The quarry dumped their dust on a very windy day sending it all over Comber and Strangford Lough. What a way to treat neighbours.

They again are seeking planning permission to expand. We have bats, owls, hares, badgers, buzzards and numerous pollinators that will suffer. Not to mention the waterways and local residents.

If anyone wants to OBJECT to the Ballystockart Quarry expansion application, click the link below, you can make your voice heard by filling in a short form. 🤨 Takes 3 minutes.

https://planningregister.planningsystemni.gov.uk/application/579801/add-comment

01/11/2023

IRISH HARES BOXING 100m from where the quarry extension (if approved) will reach. You can see the existing quarry clearly in the background.

This is one of the fabulous things in jeopardy if the quarry keeps expanding!

If you click the link below, you can register your objection to further expansion by filling in a short form. 🤨 Takes 3 minutes.

https://planningregister.planningsystemni.gov.uk/application/579801/add-comment

27/10/2023

The Ballystockart quarry is AGAIN seeking planning permission to expand. It has grown across the road and significantly changed the local landscape. This will remove more hedgerows,🥀 trees 🌳 and grass🌾 and have a direct consequence on the pollinators 🐝, bats🦇, owls🦉 , buzzards🪶and hares 🐇that live locally!

If you click the link below, you can make your voice heard by filling in a short form. 🤨 Takes 3 minutes.

https://planningregister.planningsystemni.gov.uk/application/579801/add-comment

These are a few issues to consider:
- Loss of foraging for local pollinators. Damage to the environment.
- Noise and air pollution to the local community.
- Huge lorries down a small country road.
- Change in the landscape of a beautiful area.
- Countryside litter.
- Hares, bats, owls all living locally are being squeezed.

If you have a minute, the locals would be very appreciative of your OBJECTION!

27/10/2023

Many neighbours in the Ballystockart / Hillhead area want to encourage objections to the proposed quarry expansion. It continues to grow and change our local area for the worse.

If you click the link below, you can object by filling in a short form. Takes 3 minutes.

https://planningregister.planningsystemni.gov.uk/application/579801/add-comment

The more objections we get, the better chance we have of the planners rejecting it.

The grounds for objection can include:
- Loss of foraging for local pollinators. Damage to the environment.
- Noise and air pollution to the local community.
- Huge lorries down a small country road.
- Change in the landscape of a beautiful area.
- Countryside litter.
- Hares, bats, owls all living locally are being squeezed.