Quarry roads plan would remove hundreds of lorries from Leightons roads
Heath Road will be quarry lorry free
PLANS to build an internal road across New Trees Quarry and Chamberlains Barn Quarry will take an estimated 16,250 lorries a year off Leighton's roads.
The plan submitted to South Bedfordshire District Council incorporates a new junction with traffic lights in Shenley Hill Road and a new access onto Eastern Way from New Trees Quarry. This will enable sand lorries to drive directly up through the Leighton pit behind Cotefield Drive and onwards through New Trees quarry, turning right onto Eastern Way and straight to Double Arches where the minerals are processed. They would no longer need to drive up Heath Road and through Heath and Reach.
The proposal would cut 1.8km off the current route and save over 38 tons in CO2 emissions a year.
The application in full reads: a new internal haul road at New Trees and Chamberlains Barn Quarry, incorporating new signalised junction at Shenley HIll Road and new access onto Eastern Way (BC/CM/2008/30 refers), at New Trees Quarry, Shenley HIll Road, Leighton.
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