House building consents continue to decline
The latest edition of the Housebuilders Quarterly Report (Q2 2025), published by BDS Marketing Research, illustrates a stagnated housing market in Great Britain as housing consents per quarter fall to…
Potential new RMX batching plant for Yorkshire & The Humber
In June 2025, Biker Group, a family-owned business operating in North Yorkshire and Teesside, has submitted a planning application for the installation of a concrete batching plant in Killbery Quarry.…
Major extension approved for limestone quarry in Oxfordshire
Smiths & Sons (Bletchington) Ltd, an independent family-owned aggregates producer based in Oxfordshire, received planning consent in June 2025 for a major extension to its Dewars Farm Quarry, located near…
GB aggregate reserves continue to decline
The latest edition of the ‘Estimated Reserves of Pits & Quarries in Great Britain’ report, published by BDS Marketing Research, suggests estimated reserves of sand and gravel and crushed rock…
Longcliffe Quarries have secured planning permission at Aldwick Quarry
Longcliffe Quarries, a family-owned business established in 1927, known for producing high-grade limestone powders, granules and by-products, has secured planning approval for a significant extension to its operations near Brassington,…
New RMX batching plants at Hunterston PARC site in North Ayrshire?
A planning application was submitted in May 2025 by Holcim UK, formerly known as Aggregate Industries, for two new concrete batching plants at the southern end of the Hunterston PARC…
2025 GB construction industry directories now available
BDS publish annual suite of directories on aggregate sites, asphalt plants, ready-mix sites, and concrete product sites The annual suite of construction industry directories produced by BDS Marketing Research Ltd…
Mansfield District Council grant approval for Mansfield Sand RMX plant
Mansfield Sand Co Ltd has received planning approval from Mansfield District Council for a new sustainable RMX batching plant at its Crown Garm Way site in Forest Town, Nottinghamshire. The…
Tytherington Quarry to extract additional 3 million tonnes of limestone
Heidelberg Materials has secured planning consent for an extension at Tytherington Quarry, South Gloucestershire. Approved in April 2025, this application allows for the extraction of an additional 3 million tonnes…
2025 Highways Term Maintenance contracts register published
Newly published BDS report identifies in excess of 320 contracts on regional and county level BDS have just published the 18th annual edition of the Highways Term Maintenance contracts register…