RESIDENTS living close to Grane Road have started a new campaign to stop any more lorries using the notorious road.

The move comes after Jamestone Quarry, Heap Clough, in Grane Road, applied to Lancashire County Council to allow it to import crushed glass.

Residents are objecting to the plan for fear it will result in more wagons using the road.

Safety campaigners were told they may have to wait another month, because of delays getting signs, for the start of a previously imposed ban on heavy lorries using Grane Road, although wagons going to and from the quarry would be exempt from that.

Today quarry bosses said the move would not involve any more heavy goods vehicles using the site, as the glass will be used as a replacement for rock used in asphalt.

Residents have sent objections to the council complaining about loaded wagons leaving the site without sheeting, causing spillage on to the road.

Keith Dobbs of Heap Clough, who has lived at the address for more than 30 years, said: "There are already up to 200 vehicles a day using the quarry. The road surface at Heap Clough is in a disgraceful condition. The tarmac outside my house is pushed up level with the kerb causing water to penetrate my cellar. In other places the road has deep potholes."

He added: "Another problem is that the road is only cleaned once a week, causing mud on the road in wet conditions and dust in dry conditions while the noise of wagons causes

Jamestone Quarry spokesman Chris Gibbs, said: "There won't be any extra vehicle movements. Instead of using rock we will be using processed recycled crushed glass when doing work on Lancashire County Council's roads."

The plans will go before the county's development control committee next Tuesday at 2pm.