Jobs hope in quarry plan.

An application for a 14,854 metre sq water bottling plant has been submitted for Cowdale Quarry on the outskirts of Buxton.

And if the proposals are successful, that could be followed by a science park and a leisure centre.

However objectors claim the quarry, closed in 1956 and situated in the open countryside, has become a wildlife haven.

John King from the Friends of the Peak District said: "This scheme must not go ahead! It goes completely against the council's own planning policies, and will totally destroy a tranquil spot of local countryside."

His view has been echoed by villagers from the hamlet of Cowdale who at a parish meeting …