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• Traffic - What will the additional traffic mean? The new visitor attraction is expected to attract 80,000 (250,000 according to our expert) visitors per year. Traffic will be directed onto the A1 although there will be no physical barrier to stop drivers taking a short cut through Barton or Middleton Tyas. Satellite navigation systems use the shortest route and not necessarily signposted routes. HGVs from the quarry will not have Sherburn Stone's authority to travel through Barton or Middleton Tyas although this will require managing. It is difficult to imagine an owner driver delivering a load to Teesside choosing the A1 route north, turning off at the Darlington junction in favour of the more direct route through Barton, Newton Morrell and Stapleton (the shorter route). 2,000,000 tonnes of Limestone is planned to be extracted which will leave the quarry by road in one form or another. If this goes out in 20 tonnes loads then this will be 100,000 lorry movements. This could average 56 lorry movements a day for 15 years if work is restricted to winter months only. When the A1 undergoes widening or is blocked then travel for these vehicles will be difficult. There cannot be a formal HVG restriction through Barton or Middleton Tyas as this is a diversion route for the A1.
• Health - What evidence is there that quarries impact health? Dust created from mineral extraction or that carried along the road will affect health conditions such as asthma. Also, recently published research has shown that children, who grow up in close proximity of increased traffic fumes, are at serious risk of their lungs not developing to full capacity.