Irate waste contractor Mr. Nelson Hunt says he will appeal to the Environment Minister or the courts after the Development Applications Board again turned down his plan to process scrapped cars at a Warwick quarry.

"It's one thing after another,'' Mr. Hunt told The Royal Gazette . "They change policies as they go along.'' Mr. Hunt said that when the DAB turned down an earlier application to use the Toddings Quarry off Khyber Pass to process cars bound for the Airport dump, he was led to believe the board would look favourably on the application if he found a new access to the 3.5-acre site, from Middle Road.

He then struck a deal with the Pembroke Hamilton Club Inc. which he said would grant him an easement across PHC property while helping the club with its expansion plans.

Mr. Hunt and the Ministry of Works & Engineering have been under fire because cars are being dumped into Castle Harbour at the Airport without being crushed or properly drained.

Mr. Hunt, who operates Hunt's Sanitation and Excavating Services and the Airport dump, was granted the contract on the understanding he would use his Warwick quarry, where he already has a waste operation, to process the cars.

But the DAB has never granted approval for cars to be taken to the quarry.

When an earlier application was turned down in March of 1994, the DAB added an advice note which said: "The Board wishes to advise the applicant that it considers that the only suitable access to this site, with such an intensification of use as proposed...should be via a new industrial road from Middle Road.'' Mr. Erwin Adderley, a planning consultant who acts for Mr. Hunt, said it was his understanding that the DAB would look favourably on the application if a new access was found. He had yet to receive notice of the decision, and said without examining the board's reasons for the refusal, "I can't say whether or not they have reneged on that advice note or not.'' However, in a May 2, 1995 letter, the Planning Department said it had other concerns besides the access to the quarry site.

In turning down the latest application, the DAB cited insufficient information and concerns about the scale of the operation and its effect on neighbours.

And it added a new "advice note.'' "The Board wishes to advise the applicant that in view of the emerging policy regarding the former Base lands it is of the opinion that alternate sites, better suited to the use proposed, may exist and should be fully investigated.'' While turning down the application for the quarry site itself, the DAB approved Mr. Hunt's application for an easement across PHC property and for construction of a new road.

Mr. Hunt, who said the application has cost him $310,000 to date, said he has been using the quarry for industrial work since 1970 and the DAB is treating him unfairly.