Banks Group
The Banks Group is a family owned energy and property development business headquartered in Durham, but working across Scotland and the North of England, established in 1976.[1]
The Banks Mining division is active in open-cast or surface coal mining. In 2012, Banks completed construction of Northumberlandia, a huge, award winning, land sculpture in the shape of a reclining female figure near Cramlington, Northumberland. Banks Group and the Blagdon Estate jointly financed the £2.5m cost of the work, as planning gain for Banks' adjacent open-cast coal mine at Shotton, which was approved in 2007.[2] The mine was approved in 2007 despite 2,500 objections and previous refusal by Blyth Valley Council.[3]
Banks Group won a Marketplace Innovation Award from Business in the Community for its technologies to reduce noise from mining operations.[4]
Another division, Banks Renewables, instals wind turbines,[5] such as those at West Durham Wind Farm which was planned as the largest wind farm in North East England.
The other division is Banks Property.
References
- ↑ Companies House
- ↑ "Northumberlandia: The naked lady of Cramlington". BBC News. 1 September 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
- ↑ John Hill (12 August 2010). "Banks Group pushes to expand extraction contract". The Journal. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
- ↑ "Bosses learn about life at coalface". Morpeth Herald. 25 October 2007. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
- ↑ "New wind turbine plans speeding up". South Yorkshire Times. 24 September 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
