Plans have been submitted for an asphalt processing plant on a scrap metal yard in North Staffordshire.
Knutsford-based Go Asphalt wants to build the facility on the former Excarless site on Chemical Lane in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
It would process up to 250 tonnes of material per day, using raw crushed stone, gravel, sand and bitumen delivered by articulated lorries, which would be mixed on site and then transported to construction projects across the region.
Operations are planned six days a week, from 5am to 3pm, and the site would employ four staff, with minimal visitor numbers.
A new 22-metre-wide access road would allow two-way lorry movements, while an internal one-way system would manage deliveries and collections. Two overhead silos would store finished asphalt ready for collection.
The site, around 500 metres south-east of the A500/A527 junction, sits in a busy industrial area already accommodating significant HGV traffic.
A transport report submitted with the application forecasts up to 67 vehicle movements per day and concludes that ‘this level of trip generation is not considered to make a material impact on the operation of the road network’.
The proposal follows a previous refusal in September 2025, when planners said ‘insufficient information has been provided with the application to assess the noise and air quality impacts of the development’.
A decision on the application is expected to be made by Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council in the coming weeks.
