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A plan to restart blasting at a Leicestershire quarry has been revealed. Extraction at Croft Quarry, in the village’s Coventry Road, ceased in 2022 as it was considered “uneconomical” at the time, documents submitted to Leicestershire County Council state.
However, an application has been submitted to the authority which sets out Aggregate Industries UK Ltd’s intention to start extracting materials from a new area of the site. The rock would be worked via blasting, the documents add.
If planning permission is approved for the scheme, the quarrying would start 10 years later. Aggregate Industries is looking to use the intervening years to fill the area previously excavated, according to the documents. This would be landscaped, with a mix of grassland, woodland and water features
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