We just received the following message from the NSW Department of Planning & Environment:

“Just to let you know, the Department has issued a ‘Request for Response to Submissions’ for the Brandy Hill Quarry Expansion Project.

This request is now live on our website as well as the agency submissions that were received during the exhibition period. http://majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au/index.pl?action=view_job&job_id=5899

All community submissions will be live on the website as of tomorrow (the website will refresh overnight and the status of the project will change from ‘Collating Submissions’ to ‘Prop. Response to Submissions’).

At this stage, we have received 182 public submissions (169 Object, 8 Support and 5 Comment).

We now will await Hanson to prepare a Response to Submissions Report.”

169 Objecting submissions! Wow! Well done community.