BMC Urges Action To Save Peak District

The BMC is calling on people to write to their local MPs after a High Court judge reversed the planning inspector's decision to block further quarrying at Longstone Edge in the Peak District - below.

Effectively this means that the quarry owners can now extract as much limestone from the quarry as they want as long as some fluorspar is also extracted. That's bad news for Longstone Edge, but it may also have wider implications with old mineral pemissions potentially allowing quarrying companies to extract rock elsewhere in Britain's National Parks.

The Peak District National Park Authority has now agreed to appeal against the decision at the Court of Appeal with support from a coalition of environmental and amenity groups including he British Mountaineering Council, the Council for National Parks, the Campaign to Protect Rural England, Friends of the Earth, Friends of the Peak District, Plantlife, the Ramblers' Association and the Save Longstone Edge Group

Write To Your MP

The BMC is asking you to write to your MP expressing your concerns and asking them to write, in turn, to the Secretary of State for DEFRA, Hilary Benn.

There's a downloadable protest letter here on the BMC web site, and you can find more details at www.thebmc.co.uk.