Conservative agenda

19th February 2010 - 2:50 pm - by Content Manager 2

Question from Institute of Quarrying Question Time on 18 February.

Andrea Bruce: ‘What impact do you think the Conservative agenda for local governance and planning will have on the quarrying industry’

Chris Dobbs: ‘It was generally agreed that the centralized Managed Aggregate Supply System (MASS) had worked well, but if all decisions in future are made locally some small operators might benefit but the system could descend into planning by appeal, which would be very time-consuming and costly’

Miles Watkins: ‘It sounds like a recipe for bribery and corruption, which is unlikely to be helpful to the industry’

Peter Huxtable: ‘We must do our best to engage with politicians as the current system has worked well for the past 30–40 years’

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