Minerals extraction can have serious consequences for the countryside. It destroys areas of beautiful landscapes and creates noise, dust and lorry traffic for a number of years.
We believe there are limits to the amount of quarrying the countryside can sustain and that by using resources more wisely, including using recycled aggregates, more landscape can be saved from destruction.
After years of campaigning by the Ramblers and likeminded groups, government published its revised Minerals Policy Statement 1 in late 2006.
