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The development will comprise of continuance use of the existing quarry development within an overall application area of c.24.7 hectares; extraction to the permitted level of 40m below Ordnance Datum, within the extraction area permitted under Plan. Reg. 03/4570; final restoration of the quarry void area and an area of 3.8 hectares to the North adjacent to the public road. Permission is sought for twenty years plus two years for final restoration (total duration 22 years). Permission is also being sought for an extension to the existing operating hours for the ready mixed concrete plant for out of hours operation of the plant up to a maximum of 40 occasions per year, to supply critical and strategic building/infrastructure/maintenance projects whose construction requires supply of concrete outside normal plant operating hours. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report has been prepared for the planning application.