Staffordshire Moorlands District Council's planning department has made no comments on a report discussing the potential environmental impacts of plans to reopen a former Biddulph quarry.

A document submitted to the council by the Mineral Planning Group outlined plans to reopen the Hurst Road quarry for the first time since 2014.

The group were commissioned to produce "screening and scoping document" relating to the quarry, discussing which areas of the environment would be affected by extracting minerals from the quarry again, and which of these would need to be included - or "scoped in" - to an Environmental Statement.

The document concludes that the issues of ecology and hydrogeology should be included in the Environmental Statement, whereas the issues of landscape, transport, noise, heritage and flood risk should not.

After considering the document, the district council has made no comments.

Its response reads: "Thank you for consulting us on this Request for a Scoping opinion. Having considered the submitted documents I can advise that we have no comments to make on this occasion."

Biddulph Nub News reported earlier this week how Biddulph Town Councillors reacted to the quarry's potential reopening at a recent meeting.

They voted unanimously to ask that all of the aforementioned environmental issues that were currently not included in the document should in fact be included.

Plans are underway to reopen the quarry after two applications to turn the site into residential developments fell through in 2016 and 2019.

To view the document and the council's response in full, click here.