Aggregate Industries was busy at Straitgate Farm again yesterday, this time setting out markers for tree and hedgerow planting.
Is AI assuming that planning permission will be a formality, that the site will be included in Devon’s Minerals Plan, and that the boundaries will stay the same as first assumed on its concept plans?
In February, a 20m wide tree belt will be planted on the south-western side of the farm, and hedgerows will be planted along the proposed eastern extraction boundary, 5 plants per metre. Such planting will of course take many years to mature into anything worthwhile.
