UK reserves falling behind demand

Despite a 25% fall in demand, approval of new aggregate reserves in the UK is still not keeping pace with consumption, according to a new report from BDS marketing. The report suggests that consents for new reserves in 2009 fell by 40% following on from just 115million tonnes of new reserves granted in 2008, compared to production of 135million tonnes. BDS estimates that in the past 10 years only once have new reserve consents matched production.
April 3, 2012 Read time: 1 min

Despite a 25% fall in demand, approval of new aggregate reserves in the UK is still not keeping pace with consumption, according to a new report from 671 BDS Marketing Research.

The report suggests that consents for new reserves in 2009 fell by 40% following on from just 115million tonnes of new reserves granted in 2008, compared to production of 135million tonnes. BDS estimates that in the past 10 years only once have new reserve consents matched production.

The company has said that the situation in 2009 would have been considerably worse if it had not been for two major consents granted to 1707 Aggregate Industries and 868 Tarmac. These amounted to over 35 million tonnes and represented 30% of all the reserves granted last year.

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