Ashton Court Quarry

On 31st July North Somerset planning committee voted to let Pioneer Aggregates expand their Drunkard Quarry by a further twenty acres into Ashton Court, a public park for the people of Bristol, not something for exploitation by transnational companies.

Work could start this winter with turf and soil being removed and then being used as screening banks, and the wild flower meadow being relaid on the opposite side of Longwood Lane. Even the council don’t believe that the translocation of the habitat will work. Pioneer have already backed down from thirty four acres but, as the saying goes - no compromise!

The campaign that aims to resist this destruction meets every Wednesday at 6.30pm at 10 Picton Street, Montpelier, Bristol. For more details contact Avon Gorge Earth First! on: 01225 448556/314040.