Marlee Quarry – Extension

Laird Brothers has been a family run company since quarry operations commenced at Lochhead quarry in Forfar in 1958.

Laird’s ready-mix concrete company J & A Laird Ltd serves the Tayside, South Aberdeenshire and Perthshire markets with plants at Forfar and Blairgowrie. As an independent family company servicing the market for many years Laird’s has earned a superior reputation locally, for performance and consistency, enabling them to become the largest producer in the Tayside market.

A Pre-Application Consultation (PAC) is being undertaken, in advance of the submission of a planning application to Perth and Kinross Council.

Laird Aggregates Ltd, the Applicant, is inviting comment from all interested parties. Please contact the applicant via Dalgleish Associates by 30th April 2021 to ensure that your comment is considered in the finalisation of the planning application.

Draft documents for consultation are available here:

Proposal Overview

Plans

Ecological Extended Phase 1 Report

Noise Impact Assessment

Historic Environment – Desk Based Assessment

Historic Environment – Archaeological Mitigation, Data Structure Report

Quarry Access – Technical Note

In lieu of a public event, a live and interactive web-based consultation, was held on Tuesday 30th March 2021 between 6pm and 8pm.

For this consultation exercise we used Zoom.

Click here to view a recording of the meeting.

A note of the Q&A is available here.

Thank you to those of you who joined us.  This consultation is now closed.