Plans to deliver up to 300 lorry loads of construction and demolition waste every week to a redundant quarry near Bingley look set to be approved by planning chiefs next week.

Skipton Properties managing director Brian Verity has applied to fill in Midgeham Cliff End Quarry in Harden with non-recyclable material from imported construction and demolition waste, and produce recycled aggregates at the site.

Shipley Area Planning Panel will consider the proposals, which have been recommended for approval by Bradford Council’s planning officers, during a meeting in Shipley Town Hall on Tuesday.

Councillor Simon Cooke, a Bingley Rural ward councillor, said: “This isn’t just an application for restoration of a quarry, it is also for the creation of an industrial operation crushing aggregate which is brought in. I don’t think this is the right place for that kind of recycling operation.”

If the proposals are approved, the quarry would be permitted to operate between 7am and 7pm Monday to Friday and from 7am to 1pm on Saturday. Up to 50 lorries per day would be allowed to visit the site during the week and a further 25 on Saturday, creating up to 600 lorry movements to and from the quarry every week or one every seven minutes.

Bollards would be installed at the quarry gates forcing exiting vehicles to turn right away from Ryecroft and Harden and directing them along Keighley Road and through Cullingworth to the A629 Halifax Road.

Planning conditions would also require the quarry to be fully restored by September 30, 2022.

Residents living near the quarry have expressed fears over the number of HGVs using the narrow village roads and have called for assurances the waste will not pollute the under-ground springs which supply water to Ryecroft hamlet. They are also concerned about noise and dust generated by activities at the quarry.

Cullingworth Parish Council chairman Jacqui Guy said: “We have already got lorries from three stone yards and the HCF chicken factory coming through our village. We are extremely concerned about the lorries from the quarry coming through, particularly when the children are travelling to and from school.”