Residents of Alderholt will host an emergency community meeting in a bid to stop the planned installation of a large gravel and landfill site. 

RAGE (Residents Against Gravel Extraction) will meet at the village’s pub The Churchill Arms at 7pm on Wednesday, January 25 in a bid to stop the planned installation of a large gravel and landfill site off Hillbury Road.

A number of villagers have banded together to found the RAGE movement, fighting the proposal.

Hampshire Minerals and Waste Plan documents published in August (available here and here) explain that the site proposes the use of 89.7ha of currently agricultural land for the extraction of up to 4.2m tonnes of sharp sand and gravel.

The documents detail plans to create a buffer to surrounding woodland and the village of Alderholt.

But residents insist the placement of a large quarry nearby is untenable.

The notice of the emergency meeting claims the site will attract over 100 HGVs a day, six days a week, destroy footpaths, cover the area in dust, create noise, exacerbate flooding and lower house values.

Venetia Rowland of RAGE, said she understands that gravel can only be extracted from places where deposits exist, but that the people of Alderholt had given their due for generations after enduring seven decades of gravel extraction.

Venetia said: "Frankly, as residents, it’s time for it to move somewhere else, because we’ve had enough of it.”