Pyramid Sand and Gravel Company

The Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (WSHC) has a record of a planning application from 1948 relating to the erection of garages and workshops, etc, for the Pyramid Sand and Gravel Company.

The requirement was for retrospective planning approval for the workshop etc, to support gravel extraction that had been on-going in Ordnance Survey fields 124 and 125, south of the Sutton Benger – Christian Malford road, since ‘before 1943’. It seems that, although the gravel extraction had been given planning approval, the workshops etc had been built without any approval.

The application was given provisional approval to 1953, then subsequently extended (retrospectively again!) from 1955 to January 1959.