A proposal from the Tucker's Point Club may see limestone once used to construct the Marriott Castle Harbour hotel returned to the very quarry it came from when the old tourist facility comes down.

The Tucker's Point group - which is building a luxury condominium and hotel complex on the former hotel grounds - has applied for permission to fill an unused quarry with rubble from the demolition.

According to the application submitted to the Planning department on November 14, the group wants to fill in Whitecrest Hill quarry with 5,000 cubic yards of material originally taken from there decades ago.

"Tucker's Point proposes to take clean, crushed limestone walls from the former Castle Harbour Hotel and place the material, as fill in a disused quarry," the application from Tucker's Point development manager Mark Orchard, to Planning states.

In a letter in support of the proposal, Mr. Orchard notes the demolition of the hotel is currently underway.

"This project has created a large volume of `cementitious' material, most of which will be used as compacted fill material to set grading levels for the new hotel.

"However, it is anticipated that there will be a surplus of fill created by this demolition project and we propose to place the excess material in a disused quarry on Whitecrest Hill.

"Current projections anticipate 5,000 cubic yards of such fill, which would result in the crater at the bottom of the quarry being raised to the 25 metre level...

"All of the fill will be clean, crushed rock and will not include any non-cementitious demolition material.

"It is interesting to note that much of this cementitious material was originally quarried from this exact quarry when the hotel was originally constructed."