LOCAL MP Jeremy Hunt has urged constituents to "step up the fight" to prevent looming quarry plans for the Monkton Lane site. Surrey County Council's draft minerals plan has outlined the site as one of 18 "preferred areas" across the county to produce a whopping 2.62 million tonnes of primary aggregate per annum. But the decision has not been a popular one. According to Surrey County Council's preferred option consultation feedback report, dozens of people and a handful of powerful organisations have officially opposed the quarry plans for Monkton Lane and Eashing Farm, near Godalming. However, it has emerged in the report that if the two locations remain in the draft minerals plan as potential quarry sites, there is a "good prospect of planning permission being granted". Mr Hunt said: "This latest report speaks for itself. The majority of people are strongly against the quarry plans for both Eashing and Monkton Lane. "We cannot allow these sites to remain in the draft minerals plan, especially as the council has now revealed that all the sites which remain in the plan have a good chance of being granted planning permission.  We must step up the fight." A total of 88 per cent of all respondents, including Waverley Borough Council and Farnham Town Council, opposed the plans to locate a quarry in Monkton Lane, near Farnham.  Surrey County Council has now revealed a timetable for action regarding the quarries. A stakeholder workshop is taking place in October 2006. The final draft of the minerals plan will then be submitted to the government in June 2006. There will then be a consultation period following the submission where the public can again comment on the inclusion of specific sites. An examination in public will then take place in early 2008 before the plan is finally approved. Mr Hunt added: "This is a long process and will be an ongoing campaign. However, I will not stop until Eashing Farm and Monkton Lane are officially ruled out as quarry sites." Mr Hunt will meet today (Friday) with representatives from English Nature to tour both the Monkton Lane and the Eashing Farm sites.  He hopes that the government-funded body, whose purpose is to promote the conservation of England's wildlife and natural features, will be able to raise valid ecological concerns for the site. "English Nature has informed me that they do have some key concerns over these two sites in the draft minerals plan," said Mr Hunt. "I am delighted that their conservation officer Nick Radford has agreed to visit the site with me as I hope he and I will be able to work closely together to get the council to rule out Monkton Lane and Eashing," he added.