I am delighted to announce the launch of a new book – The Battle of Hamble.
It’s an in-depth look at the Hamble Gravel Quarry, an example of everything that is wrong with Broken Britain’s inept planning process, bureaucracy, and how greedy corporates arbitrage the system to their own ends. I’ve written about the quarry many times in the Morning Porridge.
The following letter is being sent to object to CEMEX and Persimmon digging a massive quarry in the centre of the village of Hamble in Hampshire. It will create enormous health, safety, environmental and economic risks. Its also an affront to carbon emissions and unsustainable. Please write to your MP about it! Its corporate greed vs local democracy and the enviroment.
The UK’s failure to balance regulation, oversight, and planning is highlighted by insane plans to dig a non-economic quarry in the centre of a prosperous village with no upside except to prioritise shareholders over residents.





