The Peak District National Park Authority has been granted
permisison to appeal against the High Court decision to allow
continued quarrying at Longstone Edge in the Peak
District.
It's the latest chapter in the long battle being fought over the
Peak District quarry where a legal loophole has allowed the owners to
remove vast quantities of limestone under the pretext that it's a
by-product of the permitted quarrying of fluorspar and other
minerals.
The Longstone Edge Coalition, which includes outdoor bodies like
the Ramblers' Association and the British Mountaineering Council is
campaigning for the government to step in and put a stop to the
quarrying.
The worry now is that the pending appeal will spark accelerated
extraction of limestone until the appeal can be heard, probably
before the end of this year.
More details in previous OM articles linked below.
