“Enough is Enough”: Local MP Vows to Fight Rainham Quarry Plans

Friday, November 28, 2025 | The English Chronicle Desk | LONDON Borough of Havering

Margaret Mullane MP is opposing the planning application to quarry gravel at The Rainham Lodge Farm. She is supporting the campaign of residents calling on Havering Council to refuse planning permission.

Margaret said, “Rainham and the south of Havering have historically been used as a dumping ground for all of London’s unpalatable environmental projects, and enough is enough. I’m currently fighting to end the ongoing misery caused by Launders Lane, and in the past, I fought against gravel extraction in Wennington. If Havering Council approves this application, it will be yet another blight on the people of Rainham.”

Although the site is outside Margaret’s Dagenham and Rainham constituency, if the quarry goes ahead, there will be significant impacts for Rainham:
 Over 20 years, there will be many thousands of HGV movements along lanes unfit for such traffic, transporting aggregate to the Brett site off Launders Lane.
 This additional HGV traffic will worsen air quality in the area, already strained by the ongoing fires at Arnolds Field.

Margaret added, “The people of Rainham deserve some respite, not more of the same. As the Member of Parliament, I say categorically that Havering Council’s Strategic Planning Committee should refuse this planning application, and I will make a representation stating as such.”

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