in Bailey's Bay, the Planning Director said yesterday.

But Environment Minister the Hon. Gerald Simons is reviewing the Wilkinson Trust Quarry case, amid calls for approval of its expansion to be revoked, Mr.

Erwin Adderley told The Royal Gazette .

Government Conservation Officer Mr. David Wingate has described the quarry expansion near Admiral's Cave as "environmentally disastrous.'' And a Bermuda Perfumery official has said the quarrying of more than six acres of wooded land across North Shore Road from the visitor attraction would do the Perfumery irreparable harm.

Shadow Environment Minister Mr. Trevor Woolridge has added his voice to pleas that Mr. Simons revoke the approval granted by his predecessor, the Hon. Ann Cartwright DeCouto.

Her approval came after the expansion application was turned down by the Development Applications Board.

Mr. Adderley, the Planning Director, is the acting Permanent Secretary for the Environment while Dr. James Burnett-Herkes is off the Island.

Lawyer Mr. Timothy Marshall, who represents the Perfumery and other neighbours who oppose the quarry expansion, has complained that the planning application was never advertised, despite the fact that Mr. Adderley said it should be.

But yesterday, Mr. Adderley said he changed his mind about the need to advertise the application when he learned the land in question already had the industrial zoning a quarry required.

Mr. Adderley said that when he wrote a letter saying that applicant Bermuda Caribbean Engineering Consultants Ltd. should advertise the expansion plans, "we were not aware that it was zoned industrial,'' he said. "We were making the decision as if the property was zoned residential.'' When Mr. David Summers of Bermuda Caribbean objected to the advertising requirement on the grounds that the land was already zoned industrial, Mr.

Adderley said he changed his position.

Ultimately, it is up to the DAB to say whether an application should be advertised, and the DAB never said that the Bermuda Caribbean application should be, he said.

Land around the quarry was rezoned to industrial when the 1983 Development Plan for Bermuda was produced, he said. Originally, no expansion of the industrial area was proposed in the plan circulated by the Planning Department. But the Wilkinson Trust Quarry objected, and technical officers agreed to "a compromise'' that expanded the industrial zoning, Mr. Adderley said. That change was advertised, and the National Trust was among "watchdog'' groups that were aware of it, he said.

By the time the application expansion was made in 1987, there was no need to advertise, because the proper zoning was in place, he said.

Mr. Adderley rejected the charge that environmental experts in the Department of Agriculture were not consulted about the loss of woodland and the proximity of the quarry to a sensitive cave system.

Although Mr. Wingate said in his letter that he was not aware of the application until after it was approved, "we vetted this application with all and sundry,'' Mr. Adderley said. While he could produce no correspondence that showed it was sent to the Department of Agriculture, "there is nothing in our records to indicate that we did not vet it in that way.'' Mr. Woolridge said Mr. Simons should reject the approval in principle granted by Mrs. Cartwright DeCouto "and begin to hear from the community.

"I personally plan to meet with area residents with a view to finding out what their concerns are,'' said Mr. Woolridge, who represents Hamilton East.

Mr. Colin Curtis, managing director of Bermuda Perfumery owner Smith & Scott Ltd., said he hoped Mr. Simons' review of the matter would not be affected by the involvement of Mr. Summers. As well as being the principal figure in Bermuda Caribbean, Mr. Summers managed Mr. Simons' re-election campaign as United Bermuda Party branch chairman in Warwick East.