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Great News our sister company is Award winning! The Old Coach House – Yorkshire Post’s Best B&B of 2023! Neil and the team at The Old Coach House were delighted to have been shortlisted amongst such good company for the Yorkshire Post Tourism Awards’ best B&B for 2023. Hosted at the Royal Armouries in Leeds,

Our sister company Lightwater Quarries Ltd is delighted to announce our membership of The Mineral Products Association (MPA). Ensuring we offer high quality products sourced in an environmentally conscious and sustainable way is a core philosophy for our businesses and by operating responsibly in a challenging and diverse marketplace, we have been able to offer

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we live and work with many companies having to put stringent measures in place for the protection of their customers and workforce. One of these measures included asking all employees, where it was reasonably practical, to work from home. In April 2020, 46.6% of people in employment did

In September 2016, the Lightwater Group reacquired control of the farm after the retirement of a long serving share farmer. Due to the uncertain future of Brexit and world markets, a fresh way of thinking was required. Sustainable agriculture is now the driving force behind the farm’s future policies and plans. We now follow the

Here at Concrete4U we have been delivering out of hours concrete to the A1 Leeming to Barton motorway improvement scheme (A1L2B) several nights a week for more than a year now. We are doing more and more night shifts as she scheme reaches its end and are delighted to be seeing such a large scheme

The first recently introduced Volvo L260H loading shovel to be sold in Great Britain has been delivered to Lightwater Quarries Ltd, North Stainley, near Ripon. As the Ripon-based aggregates business increases its production to around 600,000 tonnes per annum, Lightwater Quarries Ltd identified the need to go larger with its prime mover. Replacing an L180G

Is seems green energy and sustainability are the construction buzz words, people look for green credentials more and more. Councils ask in tenders for the best environmentally friendly package, carbon emissions are constantly challenged to be reduced and BRE are showing off the sustainable housing solutions of the future at Innovation Park in Watford. At

Concrete4U has invested in an additional wagon to support its fleet of existing volumetric wagons. As the only quality accredited mix-on-site concrete producer in Yorkshire we are very excited to add to the fleet the additional vehicle to help supply our customer base and continue to offer the exceptional level of service they expect. The

The evolution of Potgate and Gebdykes quarries has transformed intensive farmland into a rich bio-diverse environment, providing a perfect home for a range of birds, animals, amphibians and plants which would have otherwise not been here. We regularly see sand martins, great crested newts, badgers and birds of prey in the quarries and we do