Ashton Court: what you can do

Circle the quarry | Write letters | Join the new campaign | Make a donation

 

Ring Around The Quarry

2:30pm, Sunday 6 April. Meet at Clifton Gatehouse for march through Ashton Court Estate to Top Park Field. We will then make a human ring around the field and or the quarry.

Bring everyone you know for this major spectacle.

 

Write letters

1) To the Leader of N.Somerset Council asking her to have the Council reconsider the decision to grant planning permission to Pioneer.

Nan Kirsen JP

Sunnymede, Martincombe Rd, Easton-in-Gordano, Bristol, BS20 0QD

Tel: 01275 374857

2) To the members of N.Somerset's Planning, Highways and Transport Committee asking them to insist that the committee considers all the terms in the S.106 agreement and does not delegate the job to Council Officers.

Michael Bibb (LD)
(Chair of the committee)

*

Whitecross Cottage, Cook's Lane, Banwell, N.Somerset, BS24 6DS

Tel: 01934 820152

Greta Lewis (Ind)
(Vice chair of the committee)

Ridgway, 16 Derham Park, Yatton, BS19 4DZ

Tel: 01934 834756

AP Rees (C)

*

Whiteacre, 75 Elm Tree Road, Locking, Weston-super-Mare, BS24 8EL

Tel: 01934 822524

Peter Burden (C)

Quarry Cottage, Forehills Road, Portishead, BS20 9AQ

Tel: 01275 848087

John Clark (LD)

*

111 The Downs, Portishead, BS20 8BE

Tel: 01275 849156

Glyndwr Duck (L)

Caithness, 28 Newsome Avenue, Pill, BS20 7EW

Tel: 01275 372121

John Hayes (LD)

298 Milton Rd, Weston-super-Mare BS22 8JW

Tel: 01934 623705

Sue Haysom JP (LD)

2a Nore Road, Portishead, BS20 9HN

Tel: 01275 843649

Ken Lacey (Ind)

*

West Point, 6 Brecon View, Bleadon Hill, Weston-super-Mare, BS24 9NF

Tel: 01934 812889

Bryan McGrath (LD)

Riverside View, Shiplate Road, Bleadon, Weston-super-Mare

Tel: 01934 813520

Cllr Parker (L)

20 Martock Road, Dunster Cres, Oldmixon, Weston-super-Mare, BS24 9EA

Tel: 01934 814348

William Prosser (C)

*

69 Beach Road, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 4BG

Tel: 01934 415828

Francis Sheridan (LD)

18 Moseley Grove, Uphill, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 4SF

Tel: 01934 415828

David Shopland (Ind)

Capenor, 67 Teignmouth Road, Clevedon, BS21 6DW

Tel: 01275 873107

Bob Steadman (LD)

7 Nightingale Gardens, Nailsea, BS19 2BH

Tel: 01275 855944

Norman Sycamore (LD)

*

15 Richards Close, Worle, Weston-super-Mare, BS22 0QX

Tel: 01934 517865

Charles Willis (LD)

*

18 Brae Road, Winscombe, BS25 1LN

Tel: 01934 842782

John Wiltshire (C)

*

22 Parsons Mead, Flax Bourton, BS18 3QW

Tel: 01275 463108

Janice Young (C)

*

Hicks Hay, Says Lane, Langford, BS18 7DZ

Tel: 01934 852558

C = Conservative, Ind = Independent, L = Labour, LD = Liberal Democrat

* denotes those who voted in favour of the quarry extension in July 1996.

 

3) To John Gummer, Secretary of State for Environment, asking him to call in the planning application on the grounds that it is a regional issue that can not be dealt with by one council alone.

Rt Hon John Gummer MP

House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA

4) To the case officer, Mrs. Kate Durston at the Town Hall, Weston-super-Mare, Tel 01934 888888 x.8766

5) To Paul Smith, Chair of the Land and Property Sub-Committee at Bristol City Council, owners of the land and the people who granted Pioneer the lease to extend the quarry in the first place!

Paul Smith

Bristol City Council, The Council House, College Green, Bristol, BS1

Join the Campaign

Join the new Friends of Ashton Court which has been established to continue the fight against the quarry. Contact the Sheila Thornton at The Friends of Ashton Court, 2 The Polygon, Clifton, Bristol. Tel: 0117 926 2666. Fax: 0117 929 7657.

 

Donate

Make a donation to the campaign to help pay the costs of telephone calls, leaflets and specialist advice.

 

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Updated 26 March 1997