Socio-Economic Benefits
Crown Farm Quarry
Jobs and opportunities
We employ over 20 people at Crown Farm Quarry, and if this application is successful, we will be able to continue this level of local employment until 2042.
Tarmac run highly successful engineering apprenticeship and graduate employment schemes, and we will continue to employ young people entering our business via these schemes.
Community engagement
We run educational visits to the site alongside the Cheshire Wildlife Trust. This year we have had 14 school visits, including over 400 children and 50 adults visiting the site to learn about our quarry operations and the restoration and nature reserve management work that goes on afterwards.
There is a well-attended quarry liaison group that meets twice a year. This Is attended by the local Delamere and Oakmere Parish Council, local residents, and council members and officers.
In 2022, we worked with the Parish Council and the council's highways authority to fund double yellow lining along Stoney ford Lane to discourage parking and littering. As well as this Initiative, over the last few years we have also undertaken the following:
- Repairs and upkeeps of the Oakmere Way footpath;
- Fencing on neighbouring's boundaries;
- Regular goodwill gesture litter picks along Stoneyford Lane; and
- Funding of Kingsley Community Centre extension.
We are part of the industrywide Community Landfill Tax scheme, and seek to promote and support the use of this scheme for community project funding.