Minerals

Our beautiful countryside is consequently blighted by huge scars of rock and bare earth, and by the industrial side effects of quarrying - dust, noisy machinery, dirty buildings and lorries which tear up road verges and destroy the peace - and safety - of country lanes and local villages.

Friends of the Peak District, a CPRE local group, campaign to prevent quarrying. National Park status blatantly fails to protect the landscape. Minerals permissions granted half a century ago cover not only existing quarries but huge tracts of land as yet untouched.  Click here for more on their minerals campaigns.

CPRE 2008