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National Stone Centre
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If you attended the conference in York you are entitled to a free copy of the proceedings. 
Checks are underway to confirm current addresses to ensure your copy gets to you.

Published in 2004 this report reviewed the state of supply and demand for building stone and the planning environment in which it operated. It recommended:

• revisions to minerals planning policy
• designations of heritage quarries
• creation of a national database of building and roofing stones including their 
• Description
• Suitability
• Existing sources
• Extent of unworked resources
• Constraints on production and
• Importance

Comprehensive guidance on assessing existing stone in historic buildings, the technical criteria for selecting replacement stone for repairs and obtaining supplies.

Obtainable from English Heritage, Customer Services, PO Box 569, Swindon SN2 2YP 0870 429 6658. Ask for product code 51024

Available here as a .pdf download. Can be purchased from The Stationery Office, PO Box 29, Norwich NR3 1GN. Order through the Parliamentary Hotline: 0845 7023 474, fax: 0870 600 5533, textphone 0870 240 3701, email: book.orders@tso.co.uk or visit www.tsoshop.co.uk to buy online.

The geology, sources and use of sandstones and limestones for roofing in England. 

Saving England's stone slate roofs

Stone roofing in England

Sourcing new stone slates and re-roofing the nave of Pitchford church

The Stone Roof Working Group's guide to making a mineral planning application for a small quarry or delph. Before you can open a quarry or delph you must obtain planning permission from the local council. This can appear to be more difficult than it really is, so don't be put off. Help and support are available from many organisations and if the various steps are approached methodically with a clear plan of action in mind you will find that the process is straightforward. 

This guide sets out the stages in preparing an application and where to go for help and advice.
Every council will have a Local Plan that is intended to ensure that the market for stone products can be satisfied without unacceptable consequences. So if there is a demand for the products then the mineral planning process will normally support its supply. It applies equally to small building stone quarry applications.

It can be obtained from the Institute of Historic Building Conservation at technical@ihbc.org.uk price £4.00 including postage. Be sure to include your name, delivery address and phone number in the email. You will be invoiced.

The extraordinary richness of England’s built heritage is a reminder of our ingenuity in response to our surroundings and their particular environmental and geographical characteristics. The roofs and walls of historic buildings are clues to the geology of the surrounding landscape, and demonstrate the skill by which the local population used available resources to provide shelter thereby developing the vernacular or traditional local buildings we now cherish. 

Stone consolidants - Brethane

Lime treatments

Lime method evaluation

Sacrificial graffiti barriers

Soft wall capping experiments

Conserving fractured and detaching stone tracery

Stone repair of a cracked column at the Wellington arch

Available from English Heritage Customer Services 0870 333 1181 or email ask for product code 51396

It is available from the British Geological Survey bookshop.

It is available from the British Geological Survey bookshop.