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Brodsworth Quarry Shorts

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Agricultural resoration

Brodsworth Quarry

This is the limestone that was worked

Brodsworth Quarry 360 view

Brodsworth Quarry

Brodsworth Quarry

This page describes our brownfield project for 2024 at Brodsworth Quarry where we farm 52ha.   The creation of 5000 sq ft of South facing  Live Work units or family home and safeguarding and restoration of the historic Tithe Barn.

Ecological Assessment 2012

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Doncaster Birding

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In conversation with Mick Scott at 18.30 -37.20 which summarises things at Brodsworth Quarry quite well.

 

Brodsworth Quarry Shorts

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Agricultural resoration

Brodsworth Quarry

This is the limestone that was worked

Brodsworth Quarry 360 view

Brodsworth Quarry

Brodsworth Quarry

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Location and Roman Ridge issues

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The motto of the World Ploughing Organization is “Pax Arva Colat”, which translates to “Let Peace Cultivate the Fields”  This phrase beautifully encapsulates the organization’s commitment to fostering and preserving the art and skill of ploughing the land.

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Brodsworth Quarry in arable cultivation

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Location of disabled viewing area

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Field No 1 Skylark Meadows Permanent/temporary grassland/arable

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Field No 2 Plover Improved Grassland/arable

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Field No 3 Jack Snipe  Temporary Grassland/arable

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Field No 4,5 Plover  Temporary Grassland/arable

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Introduction.  Welcome to our place and this drone and photo guide.  We are land managers to 52ha of arable land owned by Mineral Investments Limited at Pickburn Leys next to Woodlands and Highfields, Adwick le Street, South Yorkshire DN6 7JF  Farm Office 01455 612000. 

Monthly 2024 Farm Updates on our Youtube channel Facebook

Drone footage  Brodsworth Hall

Brodsworth Community Woodland

Brodsworth Quarry view 

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The proposed barn at the quarry access on B6422 Green Lane is at an elevation of 50m while the Spring Barley pictured is at an elevation of 36m.  The land drains well so is not prone to crop failure due to flooding. Presently winter covered with Canada Grass.  The land is underlain by clay and favoured for Winter Wheat and Spring Barley.  We will plough when we have frost.  "He covers the ground with snow like a blanket of wool, and he scatters frost like ashes on the ground." Psalm 147:16

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Access.  Public access is limited to the public footpath signposted on the B6422. Tresspassers will be prosecuted

Please note anyone driving a mechanically propelled vehicle on the farmland whether van or trail bike faces arrest without a warrant and Police have the power to seize and scrap vehicles.  Police have done so in relation to this site where nuisance warnings are disregarded.

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Quarry Club.  Be prepared to show your yellow Quarry Club season card to Police protecting the open spaces and keeping them safe and enjoyable for all users. 

 

Quarry Club covers a non farmland area of the quarry designated for family camping and educational outdoor activity.  Uninsured and unlicenced visitors are not allowed.

The only seasonal licence visitors to the non farming area permitted to the site are named yellow card carrying Quarry Club members approved considerate and responsible and carrying insurance who have paid for the access and accepted the terms and conditions.

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Due to nuisance and fly tipping No vehicles or mechanical trail bikes.  No dogs beyond the woodland public footpath and Roman Ridge due to ground nesting birds and farming.

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2024 Licence Holders

Andrew Brown and family, Highfields.  Subject to insurance Andrew is permitted to operate a single mechanical trail bike ridden by his children on a "Quarry Club" single designated non farming trail.

For obvious reasons no other mechanical trail bikes are permitted and will be tresspassers.  There are facilities in Bentley, Doncaster for Motorcross.  A season pass can be purchased for £700. 

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1997.  Tithe Barn Farm/Brodsworth Quarry in 1997.  English Partnerships Development areas following closure of Markham Grange Main Colliery in 1985.  The planned adjoining new housing was finally built in 2021 on the Keepmoat Skylarks Grange site

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Mineral Investments Limited

Edwards Centre, The Horsefair, Hinckley, Leicestershire LE10 0AN

T: 01455 612000

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The wider site of 150 acres includes 52 hectaces of Grade 4-5 farmland in Flood Zone One

Naturally has attracted various large scale mixed use development proposals since 2000

and will do so in the future

Persimmon Homes Millennium Village, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

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Find your drone.  For drone pilots and videos.  Waypoints is a bit of a gamechanger for consumer drones.  Find out more.  At 70m elevation the top of the Brodsworth Community Woodlands is an ideal location to launch your drone from to maintain signal and return home.  Much of interest in a 5 mile radius. We like drones for spray and sowing.  Agras T40

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Climate change and growing conditions

 

If we compare the Sunshine hours average 1961-1990 with 1991-2020 we can see the annual number of sunshine hours has ticked up to 1516.  Rainfall and days rainfall a month is similar.

Days of airfrost have diminished and temperature has ticked up.  Its also worth comparing the recent averages.  2022 saw exceptional sunshine hours of 1743 whereas 2023 reverted to average.  We farm sunshine!

Prior to Quarrying the land would have been a free draining loamy lime soil type due to the outcrop of limestone under it.  Now it is more characteristic of the clayey soil next to it which also slopes assisting drainage and arable agriculture. 

 

Wheat cropping will benefit from the water retaining quality of the clay and nutrients.  Drainage and Ph will require attention as part of the rotation.  Grassland and herbal leys in the rotation will improve soil structure and quality.

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The land is grade 4/5 compared to the grade 1/2 farmland around it. Pictures of the vegetative ryegrass are from December 2023.

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2023 overwinter bird food and cover with ryegrass leys.

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2024 overwinter bird food seed mix

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The drainage plan is evident on the plan above. Lot 2 is progressively being sold to local people.

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Each soil sample grid is 1.35ha or 3.3 acres in size

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The central former lagoon area of 4.7ha/12 acres has a naturally high water table and is water retentive .  This may be a future 4.7 ha area of wetlands. 

Local Planning allocation background

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52 Ha Arable Land at Tithe Barn Farm/Brodsworth Quarry Farm/ Woodlands Farm

SWOT  ANALYSIS DATA AND FARM/SFI ACTIONS NOTES

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1. Key Objective: Maintain cereal cropping potential and rotation for national food security and target breakeven output of 250 tonnes of cereals.  Tenant to farm primary cereal crops Winter wheat 52 ha and Spring Barley 25ha beans/Oats 27ha.  Maintain engagement and contact with Police, Council officers and Councillors to improve understanding of key objective and urban fringe issues. 

2.  Income and profitability.  Target Rent £15,000 pa and tenant retains cropping gross margin.  Support tenant sharecropper/contractor with capex and professional input.

3. Identify and dispose of redundant assets.  Key opportunity to dispose of 22 acres of woodland and land on quarry rim and redundant farm buildings at Tithe Barn for Live/Work use. Good support from the Local Authority with this objective with planning guidance issued.  Progress - Farmyard and 2 acres now sold in 2023 to improve Roman Ridge security and nuisance issues and provide funding for agricultural capex to improve yield.

4. Economic circumstances favouring agriculture. Key opportunity to benefit from high Wheat and Barley commodity prices following disruption of Russian and Ukraine grain exports and improve soil quality and soil resiliance and maintain cereal rotation.

5.  Output for viability.  Breakeven yield target.  Average harvest prices are £150 per tonne so if the farm was at the efficiency achieved at Woodlands Farm, Shepshed (see model business plan) 8.7tph of Winter wheat and Spring Barley etc would yield £67,860 over 52ha.  Assuming contractor and seed inputs and own labour charges of £40,0000 that implies a breakeven yield of 5tph for the cereal activity to be viable over the 5 year rotation. 

6. Challenges impeding the key agriculture and food security objective identified below.  Farm Pests and weed control.  In particular

6.1 Assess drainage.  Existing drainage running well today site visit 2/1/2024.  Site could be traversed from B6422 access to Roman Ridge despite recent persistent rain and severe flooding elsewhere.  Traverse site with central roadway to Roman Ridge and view fields and plantations to left and right

6.2  Local Authority policy over site allocation impeding capex, flytipping (NFU - charges on DIY tipping now dropped but flytipping remains an issue), access maintenance (obvious that we need access) and security. Barn Application by B6422 Documents for reference 23/02540/AGR: Public Access (doncaster.gov.uk)

6.3  Urban fringe issues damaging farm machinery indirectly as metal on the fields, and directly metal thieves removing gates/barriers and dismantling the plough (direct drilling into stubble now), impeding work, damaging tenant commitment and yields. 

6.4 Consider farm practices and subsidiary environmental objectives in the light of changing Government and local authority policy as times and climate environment changes.  Maintain winter cover. Direct drilling rather than tillage.  Forage and herbal leys in the rotation.    

7.  Knowledge.  Testing.  Soil testing baseline on arable land will direct additional lime/chalk if necessary and guide nitrogen fertiliser.  Input - Keith Mount Liming Ltd.

8.  Crops.  Winter wheat and spring barley.  Clay soil type is suitable for wheat/barley with improved drainage, organic matter and yields.  Good access to nutrients in the clay but waterlogging will impede root access.  Use experience of cropping Northamptonshire/Leicestershire clay soils.  Establish baseline and target yields.

9.  Yields.  Dependent on arable yields and capital improvements. 

10.  Capex.  Capital expenditure on 40m drainage mole drain system to existing drains to improve yields.  Input - Sweeting Bros.

11.  Pests and weed control.  Rotation for Control of pests and black grass.  Hand weeding and spraying.

12.  Wetlands. Forage on central 4.7ha (former lagoons) with high water table. Potential for wetlands.  Grazing of herbal leys. Sheep/Llamas preferred.

13. Winter cover.  Assess winter cover and Canada Grass cover.  May need replacing with frost susceptible winter cover to break cereal pest life cycles.

14.  Assess cereal cropping.  Wheat, barley, oats. Steel barn may be retained for future potato storage

15. RPA payments and capex.  Align to SFI actions and policies to maintain rotation. Winter wheat/Herbal leys.

16.  Biosolid management with Yorkshire Water to improve yield.  Input - Robinson Contract Services 

17.  RPA.  Herbal Leys 3 years SFI agreement,

18.  RPA.  Consider 3 years Winter Bird Feed SFI Agreement with winter wheat/spring barley/oats to retain arable cropping and weed control as a fine seed bed needs preparation for herbal leys anyway and the site is suited to winter wheat/spring barley.

19.  Urban fringe problems.  Improve liaison with Doncaster Council to tackle urban fringe problems and access funds for access security improvements 

20.  Improve Doncaster Council appreciation impeding capex on modern farm buildings that the land is 1. Land is arable land (condition of the mineral consent and present cropping and Farm Business Tenancy in the last 5 years). 2.  Not contaminated (British Coal/RPS warranty that the land is not contaminated.   I was a bit concerned when Officers mentioned colleagues view that the site was contaminated.  I certainly wouldnt put

that past British Coal.  However the 1996 aerial picture shows the quarrying extent by the B6422 access and it looks like a pristine layer of limestone so the visual evidence is of no contamination besides the warranty and the Groundsure and Wardell Armstrong environmental reports.

21.  Appeal any Farm Notification refusal to improve Doncaster Council appreciation and allow capital expenditure in modern farm buildings to protect plant and access for daily tasks. Diverts funds and energy but use NFU Legal Services and Jones & Co to recover costs.

22.  Labour and manning.  Cannot rely on drilling/harvesting contractors to do all daily tasks which need tenant own labour or local labour.  Avoid DIY work in favour of professionals where possible.

23. NFU.  Rural security, flytipping and access control.

24.  ADAS reports and farming plan.

25.  Soil Association Organic licencee potential input into herbal leys.

26.  Herbicides.  Choice of Cover crops to maintain winter cover but minimise glyphosphate application to control rank weeds

27.  Model business plan.  P B Tolley & Son Woodlands Farm Hallamford Road Shepshed Loughborough, Leicestershire LE12 9GY by T Batchelor and others including James Drysdale

https://www.thefarmersclub.com/media/979/979.pdf

28.  Hedgerows are few saving labour in trimming.  Existing hedgerows require curation.

KEY CHALLENGES TO ADDRESS

Key 2024 Challenges impeding agriculture

29.  Local Authority policy impeding capex.  Cross contamination of alternative land allocation and agricultural activity requires attention.  Local Authority justification for not allocating land in favour of competing sites is OBVIOUS Green Belt (which is true) NOT OBVIOUS Uncertain ground conditions and contamination (which is not true) NOT OBVIOUS Lack of agricultural activity (which is not true).  Appeal to resolve Local Authority policy towards land impeding capex.

30.  Non Human pests.  Cereal pest management with rotation.  Hand weeding and spraying.

31.  Urban fringe.  Restrain locals from fly tipping, taunting Police into chases and driving stolen vehicles onto the land and burning them out.  Metal on land damages farm machinery impeding cropping. 

32.  Legal.  Restrain gypsy activity to encroach onto the land. 2008 Gypsy invasion and possession order.  2017 illegal meat pony grazing.  Tresspass with vehicles.

33.  Consider farm branding to strengthen sense of place and restrain encroachment eg Woodlands Farm for land near new housing, Tithe Barn Farm on Roman Ridge.  Campsite on land to rear of Little Canada.  Quarry Farm for access to Green Lane.

THIRD PARTY

34. Third Party.  Consider nursery cropping with Markham Grange Garden Centre on land near Keepmoat housing.  Consider "Woodlands farm" branding.  Land is southfacing with good sunlight.  

Third party. Livery enterprise possible on quarry rim given adjoining community woodlands however grazing of land will harm arable land given soil conditions.  

35. Third party Campsite possible/forest school and woodland enterprise on quarry rim.  "Tithe Barn Farm"

36.  Tithe Barn may be sold or refurbished to provide wedding venue/family home.

37.  Wetlands.  Consider Wetlands "Quarry Farm" branding from B6422 access.  Will require "eyes" and physical presence to sustain access.

ADDITIONAL NOTES

38.  Use contractors to avoid overnight urban fringe problems.  Maintain and expand contacts with local NAAC contractors.  Build team with lead contractor.

39.  Secure B6422 access and Tithe Barn Farmyard with aluminium gates for storage.  New 10m barn for tools, tractor/plough security and maintenance if permitted by B6422. Existing services from B6422 to old quarry weighbridge yard and office area.

40.  5 year history.  2018 Farm Business Tenancy.  Land ploughed and Canadian Wild Ryegrass sown as a ley. Seed Cost £20,000 Cropped for powerstation use. 2019 same cropped for forage.  2020 Same. Farm Business tenancy ends. Farmer then contracts as necessary. 2023 overwinter bird food and cover with ryegrass leys.

41.  2024 5 year Farm plan. Continue farmland birds encouragement.  3 year SFI agreement then review.

41.1.  Year one.  2024 Mow, Spray, Plough existing Leys and prepare Winter Wheat/Spring Barley seedbed.  Reestablish seed bed arable cropping initially with winter wheat/spring barley for overwinter bird feeding with 3 year SFI agreement. In 2024 with a following wind and a good sunshine year we should get 2 crops of arable barley before sowing the SFI action winter bird food in the autumn. Choose wheat variety for cover bearing in mind local high winds vs competition from grasses.  Consider best practice for yields "Grafton". Maintain fringe of 5ft high wild ryegrass cover for mice/vole/small creatures to support predator species fox and owls in Leys Hill Plantation woodland.

41.2 Year two. 2025 Measure yield.  Sow Winter Wheat/Spring Barley. Soil testing. Lime/Gypsum application as required. New Drainage at 40m intervals

41.3.  Year three. 2026 3 year SFI agreement ends Once seedbed commercially established and weedfree sow herbal leys.  Consider new SFI or equivalent agreement.  Consider local cooperative marketing agreement for output. 

Increase area of herbal leys as part of the rotation and Skylark/farm birds nesting area.

41.4  Year four.  2027 Secure forage bales/cereals with new barn if permitted.  Services/access from new housing area.  Consider Wetlands in former 4.7 ha lagoon area for Migratory Wetland Birds. 

41.5 Year five. 2028 Consider Nursery for neighbouring nursery business on field near new housing if required

42.  Online references ADHB

Herbal leys Winter Wheat Winter wheat Spring Barley

43.  3 year Winter bird food SFI actions. If you're doing this action on the same area of land for the 3-year duration of your SFI agreement, you must:

44.  Assess Forestry/woodland creatures in Tithe Barn Plantation and Leys Hill Plantation.  Forestry Commission consulted and consider soil too thin to establish trees.  Area set aside for self seeding but self seeding limited and vs drainage ditches.

45.  â€‹Spring Barley tasks and economics.  Theres a lot of local knowledge from the local farmers to tap into as to how to get the crop into the ground economically.  Drilling the Spring Barley generally starts as early as February in some places once the seedbed is established.

45.  Archeology.  

Archaeology find

In 1984, the South Yorkshire Archaeology Field and Research Unit were called in to investigate, when limestone quarrying began at Brodsworth quarry.

The archaeologists found evidence for a small farmstead. This comprised of two timber round houses and a droveway leading to fields. The earliest pottery found here was made just a few years before the Romans arrived. Other finds from the farmstead date to the 3rd century AD. This tells us that people were living here for at least 200 years. Find out more 

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ABOUT US

I got my start in the Farming business from my Father Peter H Brealey who was also an executive with Massey Ferguson tractors who had their UK base in Coventry Warwickshire.  From here tractors went all over the world.  My first job at 18 was sorting parts in an Iranian tractor factory.

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At home in Long Buckby Wharf Northamptonshire we had a yard and 12 acres of woodland and pasture land on which we kept sheep and made hay.  I lent a hand at harvest.

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Hay making on a sizeable holding takes about 80 hours a year. Though we didnt have much land at home it was productive and yielded about 1000 small bales a year.  As you can see the line we had was not very efficient compared to modern contracting plant. I learned a lot about cooperative agriculture making do with what you had and our neighbours attempts to scour the internet for old parts!

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My mother had a great interest in living things and bred lambs and planted woodland.  A neighbour grazed sheep and made the hay.  I learned about keeping land in good and productive shape.

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I was keen on horses and racing but I didnt keep them at home as my mother thought they damaged the pasture.  My father was keen on golf so one way or another grass and mowing played a part in all our daily lives when I was young.

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Brodsworth Quarry/Tithe Barn Farm, Tithe Barn Plantation, Doncaster DN6 7JF 

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ADAS Visit on November 13 2023, next 31st January 2024 to provide expert input into our agricultral and farmland stewardship plan

Our Place Our Story

In 2003 our quarry at Tuttle Hill Road Nueaton was granted planning Permission for mixed use development as part of the Camp Hill Urban Village project.

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Tithe Barn Farm buildings can form a family home 

or Live Work Units in the farm yard. 

The farmstead is part of the wider 149 acre Brodsworth Quarry regeneration scheme which may encompass solar farm, import of 2m cu m of inert waste (if the A1(M) upgrade proceeds after 2030, and creation of wetland lagoons for migratory birds. 

Mineral Investments Limited purchased the 150 acre Brodsworth Quarry in 1996 the historical aerial and satellite maps on this page show the development of the quarry and farmland..

 

Pictured left is our completed site at Midland Quarry Nuneaton as part of the Camp Hill urban regeneration project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It formed part of the Brodsworth Colliery/Brodsworth Quarry Brownfield site.

Fisher German particulars of the wider site can be found here

Mineral Investments Limited

We were asked to engage with the Local Planning process and this we did via DLP

Brodsworth Quarry site plan

Matter 2 Quantity of Development needed

Matter 3 Strategic Approach

Matter 4 Green Belt

Matter 5 Housing supply

Matter 6 Housing Development requirements

Matter 8 Economic Development

DLP Greenbelt

DLP 2020 Site examination

Drive with DLP 2020 hearing statements

DLP 2012 Representations for Mixed Use Development

WS Atkins study

Ecological Assessment

Wardell Armstrong Brownfield Site status

Wardell Armstrong Land Quality Statement

Wardell Armstrong Land uses

Wardell Armstrong Waste infill feasibility study

RPS Study Letter

RPS Warranty

Mineral Appendix

Groundsure Quarry sute Risk AssessmentGroundsure wider colliery/quarry site report
 

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1.  The Brodsworth Quarry site at Pickburn Leys extends to 52ha of arable land.  The site was acquired by Mineral Investments Ltd on 4th February 1997 from British Coal.  It was quarried by Tilcon for a thin layer of limestone and was progressively restored to arable land by Tilcon. As can be seen the centre of the Brodsworth Quarry site is 5333N0112W .  The site is bounded by housing on three sides and the former Brodsworth colliery spoil heap now the 99ha Brodsworth Community Woodland.  Services are located at the B6422 access. 

 

Services.  A water main is located to the rear of Little Canada. There is presently no services and access from Woodlands by the new housing but this is worth exploring as services underlay the Roman Ridge road.  The alternative location of barn and farmhouse may permit closure of the access on B6422 which is subject to Nuisance and Police issues associated with the urban fringe.

2.  Brownfield Land.  Responding to the planning application for an agricultural barn Doncaster Council claimed on the basis of anecdotal evidence that the land is contaminated but this is not evident.   from the picture and report evidence a problem we face with the site.

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British Coal warranted the site free from contamination in 1997 and that is also rather obvious from the aerial photo.  The assertion that ground conditions are uncertain is therefore obviously mistaken. 

3.  Agricultural land.  Responding to the planning application Doncaster Council claimed on the basis of a site visit that the land where the proposed barn is located is not agricultural but this is not evident from the aerial picture and 2018-2020 farm business tenancy evidence a problem we face with the site.  There are particular reasons to site the proposed barn at the access, for services from the B6422, improve access security and the viability of agricultural activity.  Its location on an area of existing hardstone standing will avoid affecting ecology by making new foundations.

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However the agricultural land adjoining Roman Ridge is a viable alternative location if services can be brought to it.

4.  Yields. Agriculture is challenging due to low yields on the reclaimed land following quarrying.  The land will be ploughed and harrowed in February 2024 to create a fine seedbed for resowing. 

 

The land has evidently been planted with Canada Grass and cropped in the last 5 years in accordance with a 2018-20 Farm Business Tenancy.

 

Historically the reclaimed land has been farmed for cereals.

 

In 2024 we plant winter wheat and spring barley.  We then assess yields and make capital improvements. 

Existing drainage is going well

Drainage at 40m intervals.

7.  The site faces serious tresspass issues with Gypsy invasion which required a possession order in 2008.  Lower level gypsy related tresspass has continued.  The Council assisted in the removal of horses grazed for suspected illegal meat production from the quarry in 2017

10.  The potential of the site to be allocated for employment or housing use in the future may be a factor in the periodic attempts to encroach on the site.  The site is washed over by Green Belt and the removal of this designation would require Doncaster Council to reserve the land from Green Belt. 

5.  Improvements. ADAS are reporting on the site and SFI actions and next visit the site on 31st January 2024.  Soil testing will identify the need for lime/gypsum additions.  There exists a small layer of the original limestone bedrock underlain by clay. 

 

There is nothing to impede cereal production at the site if need be and economic circumstances and urban fringe problems permit. 

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Yield can be improved by land drainage and application of biosolids to improve the organic content of the soil.

8.  The site may find alternative use. Doncaster Council identified the site as a potential waste site. The site has a capacity of 2m cu m and may be required should the A1(M) ever be upgraded to receive inert waste and restore the land levels. 

11. Historically the land was grade 4 farmland on one side of Common Hill and known as Pickburn Leys.  The land is well watered due to limestone springs besides the soil type which is now underlain by clay rather than the limestone bedrock.  This favours wheat production in terms of nutrients from the clay and water retention and water availability in the spring/summer.  The thin layer of limestone left from quarrying is likely to assist maintain Ph levels.

 

6.  Deprivation and urban fringe issues.

 

The Highfield village is Doncaster's most deprived ward.  Urban fringe problems are severe with flytipping over several decades.  The farmyard of Tithe Barn and Potato storage is not secure.

 

Metal thieves have removed farm barriers to the Green Lane B6422 access and damaged contractors farm equipment left overnight such as the plough. 

 

Cars are regularly driven onto the land to evade Police chases and left burnt out causing metal damage to farm machinery.

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9.  The site may find alternative use. 

National Housebuilders have identified the site as suitable for large scale mixed use development.  Persimmon plc promoted the site through Parliament as a Millennium Village in 2002.  National housebuilders like Barratt are in regular contact with Doncaster Council to see if the sites suitability as a Green Village Development or extension of the new housing established on the Woodlands boundary would be appropriate.

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12.  Soil testing.  Each soil sample grid is 7x1.35ha or some 10 ha in size.  The central lagoon area of 4.7ha/12 acres has a naturally high water table and water retentive. 

13.  Arable Business plan.  SWOT analysis data and points below. Key opportunity to improve arable yields with Capex.  Key opportunity to benefit from high Wheat and Barley commodity prices following disruption of Russian and Ukraine grain exports and improve soil quality and resiliance. 

 

Model business plan. 

P.B Tolley & Son Ltd by T Batchelor

Woodlands Farm, Hallamford Road, Shepshed, Loughborough LE12 9GY. 

15.  Planning Policy.  Our architects are liasing with Doncaster Council over Council policy towards the site. The site is not contaminated and it is agricultural land.  It is surrounded on three sides by housing and bordered by the former colliery spoil heaps and A1(M) which are strong Green belt boundaries. Our working assumption is the the land will be in agricultural use for at least the next 20 years unless allocated for another purpose.

Meet The Project Plan

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Plans

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Land Registry Plan      Blockplan layout              Aerial barns site plan     Area Planning Map     Site Aerial 1996

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Skylarks Grange Long Lands Lane Woodlands Doncaster DN5 7XB  Keepmoat New Housing

 

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