Quarry planning, development & restoration

The Brice Aggregates team are highly experienced in the full suite of matters relating to minerals development including site identification & acquisition, promotion into the relevant planning frameworks, pursuing planning applications, and ultimately the development of mineral reserves. The Directors have particular experience in the development cycle of new, greenfield quarries, with cross disciplinary expertise across agriculture, land management, planning, finance, and quarrying ensuring the neccessary skills to see projects through from inception right through to production. The business actively reviews all such opportunites with a partiular focus on the Eastern Region.

Brice Aggregates welcome enquiries from landowners and land managers who are interested in exploring the potential for minerals development on their land.   

Brice Aggregates take a flexible approach to their relationship with landowners to help meet their mineral development objectives. This can range from a comprehensive approach with Brice Aggregates promoting and taking sites through planning at zero cost to the landowner, to simply working on a project or contract basis. Established in house expertise provides the ability to successfully steward projects through their development and operational lifespan with positive engagement with key stakeholders such as County, District, and Parish Councils, local residents, planning authorities and the environment agency as well as landowners.

Modern mineral extraction practices provide an abundance of opportunities for thoughtful restoration schemes to enhance the overall setting and appeal of sites in the long term. With an increased focus from planners in recent years on restoration, fully developing the potential in restoration for enhanced amenity, public access and biodiversity gains is taking on an ever increasing importance at the early stages of site design. Brice Aggregates will work with landowners to develop restoration schemes which meet the long term objectives for their land as well as fully incorporating appropriate ecological and amenity enhancements. This can typically include the imporation of inert materials into sites to achieve enhanced restoration landforms.

The Brice Aggregates team have an established track record in successful site restoration, including the receipt of several awards from statutory bodies for certain schemes. As land owners and managers themselves, The Directors understand the importance of achieving successful restorations of quarry workings.