The 2025 Annual Mineral Planning Survey (AMPS 2025), reports on mineral planning data for 2024 and 2025 collected from producer members of the Mineral Products Association.
This document sets out how Britain’s mineral planning is failing to plan ahead for a sufficient and timely supply of minerals. The analysis shows that the rate at which new reserves of sand, gravel and crushed rock are being permitted or replenished to replace sales continues to fall across Great Britain. This ongoing reduction in the long-term reserve base upon which the minerals industry and downstream sectors depend means that, even at a time of lower sales, the industry will continue to need new permissions to maintain a sufficient and timely supply of minerals which are essential for delivering the housing, infrastructure, manufacturing and industrial developments that society needs.
Published: 2026