Peterborough stone supplier’s quarry expansion to create 30 jobs

Stamford Stone Company, based at of Swaddywell Quarry, Stamford Road, Marholm, has secured approval for a 14 hectares expansion of its Clipsham Bidwells quarry site.

Planners at Rutland County Council were told the extension would secure the existing stone supply at the site for the next 30 years.

Laura Green, director of Stamford Stone, said: “We are delighted with the decision to let us extend the quarry.

“The authorities have granted permission for the extraction of 500,000 tonnes of premium masonry block stone and 1.75 million tonnes of building and walling stone over the next 30 years.

“This extension will provide an uplift in the local economy and will create up to 30 new jobs in the area over the next 10 years.

She added: “In order to reduce the impact on the local community, part of the project includes the creation of on-site production facilities which will reduce the movement of the quarried stone, which originally would all have had to have been transported via the A1 to the current production site at Helpston.

Stamford Stone is the exclusive, global supplier of Clipsham limestone and has been operating Clipsham Medwells Quarry since 2001.

It acquired the Clipsham Bidwells Quarry two years ago.

It has supplied stone for some prestigious building projects.

Recently, Stamford Stone has been awarded two high profile contracts with its limestone specified for a new build project at the historical site of St John’s College in Oxford and for use on a new facade at the CUS and Trinity buildings in Cambridge.