Banks Group
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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.
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