This page is intended to provide useful information on existing active quarries in Leicestershire.  The page holds plans showing the restoration schemes for each quarry (see below), grouped by mineral type extracted.  Restoration design is a continuously evolving process and some schemes have been subjected to minor amendments.  But, for ease of presentation the latest full scheme is displayed with the application from which it has been sourced.  Where a quarry is listed but no link exists to a scheme then no scheme has been submitted to the Planning Authority at present.  Further information is available on the approximate size of the quarries and, where known, the use of the land to which the current restoration scheme intends to return it to from the link below:

Mined land has made a large contribution to the National Forest - between 1990/1 and 2007/8 mineral land, solely in Leicestershire was used to create 464 hectares of the National Forest (source: National Forest, 2008).

For information on the restoration of former quarries please use the link below but please note that this page is under construction.

Alongside the benefits that can be realised by the restoration of essential mineral sites there are some examples of land outside of the mineral workings which is managed by the operator.  These schemes are at Mountsorrel Quarry and Cloud Hill Quarry.