There’ll be cheers from residents in Cowes and East Cowes today as Eurovia announce they’ve withdrawn their planning application for an asphalt plant at Medina Wharf.
Scott Wardrop, Chief Executive of the company, says they were waiting for formal approval of the planning application at the Blackwater asphalt plant before withdrawing, which they now have.
Planned for sometime
OnTheWight were ‘given the nod’ last summer that the application would be withdrawn and it also seems to have been fixed in the minds of Island Roads for sometime that it would.
A couple of weeks ago, OnTheWight asked the Isle of Wight council (IWC) the position, but they said it had not yet been withdrawn.
Planning permission for the Blackwater plant was given on 29th January 2014.
Tuesday 11th February 2014
06/14/TE
Wight Building Materials secures green light to construct a new asphalt plant at St Georges
Aggregate Industries and Eurovia, the two shareholders of Wight Building Materials, are pleased to announce that the Isle of Wight Council have approved the Planning Application for a new asphalt plant to be built at Blackwater Quarry at St Georges, to replace the existing asphalt plant with a new modern high performance asphalt production facility for asphalt aggregate recycling on the island.
This new modern production facility represents a capital investment of over £3.5M on the island. This is a long term commitment to support a sustainable building material business on the Isle of Wight, which also supports the Isle of Wight Council’s Highways PFI and the future general infrastructure investment and reconstruction on the Isle of Wight. This investment was vital in securing the jobs at St. Georges and the various secondary businesses and trades that support aggregate, asphalt and ready mix concrete production on the Isle of Wight.
Scott Wardrop, Chief Executive of Eurovia UK said:
“Aggregate Industries and Eurovia were very pleased to now get formal approval from Isle of Wight Council that Planning Permission had been granted for both a new asphalt production facility and asphalt aggregate recycling.
“This allows Wight Building Materials to move forward and build a modern, low emission asphalt plant, needed by the Isle of Wight to produce high quality materials for the Island for many years to come and secures the jobs on the island. Now that Planning has been secured, we hope we can still get the new production facility commissioned in the second quarter of this year to enable full support of the Isle of Wight Council’s Highways PFI and gain more reliability of asphalt supplies at St. Georges.
“As a direct result of the Planning approval by Isle of Wight Council, Eurovia will honour our commitment made at the time of the announcement of the new Wight Building Materials joint venture company, in August 2013, to withdraw the Eurovia Planning Application for an asphalt plant at Medina Wharf (submitted in April 2012) when Wight Building Materials obtains Planning approval for St. Georges.”
Readers will remember there was huge opposition to the plant from residents in Cowes and East Cowes who say their health would’ve been affected by the operation.
Planning Permission notice
Below is the Planning Permission notice, issued on 29 January 2014, complete with 16 conditions.
