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Bibliography

DETR (2000) Planning Research:
Monitoring and assessment of peat and alternative products for growing media and soil improvers in the UK (1996-1999).

Enviros Consulting Ltd (2003)
Monitoring peat & alternatives as growing media & soil improvers in the UK 2001, www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_planning/documents/page/
odpm_plan_609226.hcsp , viewed 22/10/03.

FOE (1998) Press Release:
Labour turns back on peatland protection, www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/19980410000113.html , viewed 25/10/03.

FOE (2001) Last chance to see...?:
Lowland raised bog SSSIs threatened by commercial peat extraction, www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/last_chance_see.html , viewed 22/10/03.

FOE (2002) Peat deal saves top UK wildlife sites www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/20020227103730.html , viewed 26/10/03.

Hiller et al. (2003) United Kingdom Minerals Yearbook 2002:
Statistical data to 2001, British Geological Society

Holmes et al. (2000) Peat alternatives:
A review of performance, future availability and sustainability for commercial plant production in the UK, ADAS.

Irish Peatland Conservation Council (1998) Press Release:
Government must declare more blanket bog Special Areas of Conservation: For Release 12th April 1999, www.ipcc.ie/prbbsac.html , viewed 4/11/03.

Key Note Ltd (2000) Horticultural Retailing, ch. 3:
Industry Background.

Lindsay, R. & Immirzi, P. (1996)
An inventory of lowland raised bogs in Great Britain, Scottish Natural Heritage Monitoring Report, No 78.

Noble, R. (2003)
Peat substitute makes mushroom production more eco-friendly. Mushroom Journal, No. 638, pp 20-21

RSPB(2003) Habitats:
Blanket Bog, www.rspb.org.uk/countryside/habitats/wetlands/blanketbog.asp , viewed 22/10/03.

SNH (2003)
Commercial Peat Extraction in Scotland database.

Stuart Brooks Peatland Consulting (2003)
Commercial Peat Extraction in Scotland; March, 2003, SNH.

Waller, P. & Temple-Heald, N. (2003) Research Report:
Compost and growing media manufacturing in the UK, opportunities for the use of composted materials, WRAP: www.wrap.org.uk/
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ForTheUseOfCompostedMaterials.pdf , viewed 4/11/03

Appendix 1: UK Mushroom Producers

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James A Gooding Elite Mushrooms Flixton Mushrooms
Monahan Middlebrook Woodlands Mushroom Farm Orchard Mushrooms
Tas Valley Mushrooms J Rothwell & Son Hughes Mushrooms
Pond Chase Nurseries Capel Mushrooms McGeary Mushroom Farms
Winterpick Mushrooms Layer Mills Mill Mushrooms
Chesswood Produces Magee's Nurseries Drinkwater's Mushrooms
Blue Prince Mushrooms H G Bird Harpers Hill Mushrooms
Halfland Mushrooms Greenmyre Mushroom Farm Fiddleford Musrooms
Kentdown Mushrooms Springfield Mushrooms Birnam Mushrooms
Southdown Mushrooms Aylesbury Mushrooms Chislet Mushrooms
Baron Jackson Welsh Mushrooms

Appendix 2: Peat suppliers to the amateur gardening market

Garden Centres

Dobbies Garden Centres plc
Head Office: Melville Nursery, Lasswade, Midlothian, EH18 1AZ, Tel: 0131 663 6778,
Fax: 0131 654 2548, Email: , Website: www.dobbies.com

Klondyke Garden Centres Ltd
Head office: Beancross Road, Polmont, FK2 0XS, Tel: (01324) 711727,
Website: www.klondyke.co.uk

Notcutts Garden Centres
The Nursery, Cumberland Street, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 4AF, 383344,
Website: www.notcutts.co.uk

Wyevale Garden Centres
Head office: King Acre Road, Hereford, HR4 0SE, Tel: 0800 413213,
Website: www.wyevale.co.uk

DIY Chains

B&Q
Head Office: Portswood House, 1 Hampshire Corporate Park, Chandlers Ford, Eastleigh, Hampshire, SO53 3YX, Website: www.diy.com

Homebase
Homebase Ltd, Customer Relations Department, Beddington House, Railway Approach, Wallington, SM6 0HB, Tel: 020 8784 7200, Fax: 020 8784 7755
Email: , Website: www.homebase.co.uk

Focus Wickes
Head office: Gawsworth House, Westmere Drive, Crewe, Cheshire, CW1 6XB,
Tel: 0800 436 436, Email: , Website: www.focusdiy.co.uk

Supermarkets

Tesco40
Head office: Tesco House, Delamare Rd, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, EN8 9SL, Tel: 01992 632222 Website: www.tesco.com

J Sainsbury plc41
Head office: Holborn Place, 33 Holborn, London EC1N 2HT, Tel: 0207 695 6227,
Website: www.j-sainsbury.co.uk

Safeway
Head Office: 6 Millington Rd, Hayes, Middlesex UB3 4AY, Tel: 01622 712987,
Website: www.safeway.co.uk

ASDA
ASDA House, Southbank, Great Wilson Street, Leeds, LS11 5AD, Tel: 0500 100055,
Fax: 0113 241 7732, Website: www.asda.co.uk

Appendix 3: British peat extraction sites

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Appendix 4: Planner contacts

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