DUNGOG councillors will hold an extraordinary meeting tonight to consider a Daracon request to let Martins Creek Quarry keep operating just months after court decisions on the site.
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The quarry operator is seeking a stay of orders over the site from the council, prompting councillors to hold an extraordinary meeting tonight solely to consider the request.
The quarry, sold to Daracon in 2012, has extended beyond a five-hectare footprint approved in 1991.
Daracon's appeal of a Land and Environment Court decision on the case was dismissed in June.
That milestone followed the longest judgement in the Land and Environment Court's history being handed down in January, ordering Daracon to pay the council's legal costs and finding the quarry had operated outside its original consent.
A Daracon spokeswoman said the company hoped an agreement on the stay of orders, which would let the quarry operate until an application for a new consent due to be lodged later this year is considered, could be struck with the council.
"The court anticipated that this would be required and allowed for council and Daracon to jointly extend the current limited operating conditions," she said.
"We hope that council will choose to exercise this right to collaborate and avoid the need for a return to court."
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