A supporting statement with the planning application – number 25/00922/191, which can be viewed on the council’s website – says the application seeks approval for the land being used in connection with stone importation, stone sawing and working, stone exportation and storage of imported stone, worked stone, stone for selling and waste stone. The statement says the stone working operation at Thumpas Quarry has been in place for many years. However, in 2015 a Lawful Development Certificate for the use of the land was issued. Part of the site which is now being used did not benefit from the ten years’ use of the land under the 2015 certificate, says the supporting statement. The supporting statement argues a Lawful Existing Use certificate for operational use as part of the stone yard for the portion permitted under the 2015 time-limited certificate can therefore be issued.