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A group of complementary, innovative and customer centric companies.

RESPONSIBLY GROWING RESOURCE
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heathcote holdings

A group of businesses owned by the Heathcote family with size and scale to deliver your needs.

The group of companies that make up Heathcote Holdings are the best in their field. They are leaders in organics, recycling, waste management, industry innovation, agriculture and land management.

Environmental sustainability, customer service and relationships sit at the very core of the entire group. Where every element of what we do is adapted and nurtured to suit our customers’ needs and challenges.

The services from the Heathcote Holdings group include:

  • Agricultural contracting & farm management
  • Integrated waste management
  • Renewable energy
  • Organic fertiliser
  • Ecological enhancement & offsetting solutions
  • Land drainage & habitat management
  • Groundworks, civils & construction
  • Plant & powered access platform hire
  • Industrial facilities management & logistics

We are committed to providing you and your business with bespoke integrated solutions.

Providing for the needs of today without compromising the needs of tomorrow...

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a family business with size and scale to deliver your needs

120

Turnover

130

Gross Assets

750

Employees

100

Customer Centric
1

Passion

2

Trust

3

People

4

Team Work

5

Accountability

6

Integrity

7

Innovation

8

Environment

heathcote holdings

Providing for the needs of today without compromising the needs of tomorrow...

Trevor Heathcote’s entrepreneurial spirit showed signs at a very tender age of 5 when he used to collect the eggs from the chickens in the garden in the morning and then take the eggs into school to sell to his teachers! He’d prepare them a little invoice in his ticket book and debts were collected at the end of each week.

School was somewhere where Trevor looked longingly out of the window, waiting for the bell to ring so he could go home and start the real work of the day, with his dad on their small holding.

From humble beginnings, Trevor has always had a passion for the industry, after all farming is in his blood. He is a man of many virtues, first and foremost being family. His sons Martin and Nathan are following in Trevor’s footsteps to drive the future of Heathcote Holdings. They clearly all subscribe to the same principle; One family delivering the best for its customers and the environment.

The diverse and varied group provides a complete ‘From Root to Plate’ solution and totally fulfils the circular economy. The group of companies that make up Heathcote Holdings are the best in their field. They are leaders in organics, recycling, waste management, industry innovation, agriculture and land management.

The History of Heathcote Holdings

1985

Start of Trevor’s Contracting Services

After spending two years at Hadlow College Trevor Heathcote bought his first tractor and round baler, growing the business and developing his contracting services over the next few years.

1996

Countrystyle Composting Ltd formed

Trials for a composting site with ADAS saw the launch of Countrystyle Composting Ltd to develop recycling for commercial and domestic green waste.

1998

Higgs Agricultural Services & HS1 Channel Tunnel rail link

Farm & General Services acquired specialist spraying contracting business Higgs Agricultural Services. Also start of five years of work on the HS1 channel tunnel rail link, working for Balfour Betty, Kaverna Construction and Amac.

1999

Awards, fencing and the first lorry

In 1999 Farm & General Services were announced Winner of Farm Contactor of the Year. It also saw the commencement of Four Seasons Fencing and Trevor bought his first lorry.

2004

Commencement of FGS Plant & Countrystyle Recycling

Following the 2002 acquisition of a freehold site in Ridham, nr Sittingbourne, Kent Trevor formed FGS Plant, a plant hire business and Countrystyle Recycling, for the development of an in vessel composting plant and missed recycling facility (MRF). Farm & General Services name changed to FGS Agri.

2005

Countrystyle acquires site in Strood

Countrystyle acquires a waste transfer station in Strood, Kent and associated skip hire operations.

2008

Investment in new in-vessel composting facility

£6m is invested by Countrystyle to build Kent’s first fully permitted PAS100 QP approved in-vessel composing facility.

2009

Countrystyle Composting acquisitions

Countrystyle Composting acquires the in-vessel composting facility at Parham, Suffolk alongside the treatment contract for Suffolk County Council. Countrystyle acquires Folkestone Waste Transfer Station and associated skip hire business.

2010

Further Countrystyle acquisitions

Countrystyle acquires TJ Composting Group, an organics recycling business with sites in Swanley, Kent, Ongar, Essex and Beddingham, East Sussex. Countrystyle also secures seven year contract for the total waste management at New Spitalfields Market from the City of London.

2011

Countrystyle Composting acquires Halstead Renewable Energy Power Project

Acquisition includes full planning permission for development of a 40,000 tpa AD plant. The Group also acquires a further 3 IVC facilities from County Mulch Ltd in Suffolk and Bedfordshire.

2011

Countrystyle acquires Any Waste Solutions Ltd

Countrystyle acquires this waste collection and recycling business based in Kent. Countrystyle Group also sells the management and development rights of four AD sites to Tamar Energy and the operation of six of Countrystyle Composting’s in-vessel and open windrow composting sites.

2013

Commencement of FGS Organics

Launch of recycling specialist FGS Organics offering recycling solutions from supplying organic fertilisers through to complete waste recycling operations.

2014

Acquisition of Water Direct

The acquisition of Water Direct, the preferred alternative drinking water supplier, formed a natural progression for FGS Agri’s existing water operations.

2016

Acquisition of Envar Composting

The acquisition of the site in Cambridgeshire, the UKs largest in-vessel and windrow composting facility, increased the group’s capacity of compost operations significantly.

2019

New Surrey site for Envar Composting

Acquisition of Collier Environmental Services’ composting facility in Chertsey. The new site forms a natural addition to Envar’s flagship IVC composting facility in Cambridgeshire.

2019

Launch of FGS Pilcher

A joint venture with Civils division of FGS Agri and Harvey Pilcher of IG Pilcher drainage specialist sees the launch of FGS Pilcher

2019

Commencement of VeriGreen

Launch of food waste recycling company VeriGreen, supplying food and produce waste to AD plants where green energy is generated to power local homes. The AD waste is then used as a bio fertiliser and spread back onto the land.

2020

Development of AD plant

Substantial investment in a new Anaerobic Digestation (AD) plant in Kent.

2020

New composting sites for Envar

Acquisition of composting sites in Kilsby and Chesterfield. These two new sites form a natural addition to Envar’s existing sites in Cambridgeshire and Surrey.

2021

Acquisition of West London Composting Ltd

Envar acquires West London Composting and their site in Uxbridge, furthering Envar’s coverage with a total of five sites across the country.

2021

Countrystyle acquires Indigo Waste Services Ltd

The acquisition of bottle bank collection specialist Indigo Waste Services Ltd in Thetford expands Countrystyle Recycling’s operating area into East Anglia.

2021

Commencement of Habitat Regeneration

Launch of habitat creation and management specialist Habitat Regeneration providing services for ecological enhancement and offsetting solutions.

2021

Acquisition of Hire Access Platforms

FGS Plant acquired Dorset based Hire Access Platforms increasing FGS Plants fleet and expanding their reach.

2023

Launch of FGS Industrial Facilities Management

FGS Industrial Facilities Management was launched as a multi-skilled business capable of responding to the needs of industrial clients and their sites.

2023

Acquisition of Clements Plant & Access Hire

FGS Plant acquired Coventry based Clements Plant & Access Hire increasing FGS Plants equipment fleet and expanding their geographical reach.