Minerals Planning – Building Stone
Heaton Planning provide minerals planning guidance and planning and environmental services to a number of building stone producing companies in the UK, successfully obtaining Planning Permission for extensions to existing mineral workings.
The principal sources of building stone in England are the Jurassic Limestones, especially in Portland, Purbeck and to the east of Bath, and Carboniferous Sandstones of the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber, particularly York Stone. Ordovician and Silurian slates are extracted in North West England, and Devonian slates in the SouthWest. However, there is a very wide variety of small more localized sources of materials that have been used in historically significant buildings or which are important to preserve local vernacular character.
Recent projects include:
Clipsham Quarry, Rutland
Client: Clipsham Quarry Company
Heaton Planning – commissioned to prepare and submit a Minerals Planning Application, Supporting Statement and Environmental Statement for the consolidation of operations under the old mineral permission and for a new extension to Clipsham Quarry securing both aggregate and building stone reserves. The Section 106 legal agreement for the site has recently been signed and Planning Permission granted. Follow up work has included the preparation and submission of detailed restoration proposals.
Stainton Quarry, County Durham
Client: Ennstone Building Products Ltd
Heaton Planning – commissioned to prepare and submit a Planning Application, Supporting Statement and Environmental Statement for the consolidation of operations and extension to allow for the tipping of waste stone to secure the overall restoration of the site. Unfortunately Planning Permission for the site was refused against Officer recommendation.
Merrivale Quarry, Dartmoor National Park
Client: Ennstone Building Products Ltd
Heaton Planning – commissioned to submit schemes of detail to satisfy various planning condition requirements. This included a submission seeking approval for crushing and processing of waste stone to produce aggregate and the project management of contractors and technical specialists regarding the maintenance of three buildings of archaeological and historical importance which are located on the site.
High Nick Quarry, Northumberland
Client: Ennstone Building Products Ltd
Heaton Planning – commissioned to prepare and submit a Planning Application and Supporting Statement for an extension to High Nick Quarry securing additional building stone reserves. Planning Permission was successfully obtained for the extension.
Alton Quarry, Derbyshire
Client: Chesterfield NSF
Heaton Planning – commissioned to prepare and submit a Planning Application and Supporting Statement to regularise and extend building stone operations at a small quarry in Derbyshire.
Castle Quarry
Client: Lincolnshire County Council
Heaton Planning – commissioned to progress to determination a Planning Application with Environmental Statement for an extension to an existing building stone operation. This included drafting a Planning Committee Report and a recommendation with a full schedule of planning conditions. Permission was granted.