Besselsleigh

Hills Quarry Products has announced plans to extract 1.4 million tonnes of soft sand and intermingled limestone "doggers" from 18.6 hectares at Upwood Park Estate near Besselsleigh just off the A420. This proposed new Upwood Park Quarry is required to replace the nearby Tubney Woods Quarry when that comes to an end in 2010.

The proposed new is Upwood Park Quarry is required to replace Tubney Woods Quarry when that comes to an end in 2010. The extraction programme would be the same as at Tubney Woods and would work the same geological deposit of high quality sand and serve the same markets. Rates of extraction and numbers of traffic movements would be similar. After extraction three of the four fields would be backfilled with inert subsoil type materials to restore the land to agriculture at original ground levels which would consequentially improve the agricultural potential. The largest field would be restored at a low level (i.e. with no infilling) and transferred to BBOWT to manage in perpetuity for nature conservation and habitat bio-diversity. It would complement the ecological interest of the adjoining Sites of Special Scientific Interest and National Nature Reserves.

You can view the following planning documents here on our website:

* Non technical summary of planning application

* Sequence of working plan