Katy Dunn

Member of No Fracking In Balcombe Society

Simon Greenwood

Owner of Balcombe Estate which includes the Cuadrilla site at Lower Stumble and a member of Balcombe Parish Councl

Francis Maude MP

MP for Horsham, which includes Balcombe, and Cabinet Office Minister

He said: “Balcombe is unlikely to be the place where they would choose to it [fracking] from.” “No one is suggesting that those requirements [on water supply and environmental protection] are short-circuited.” “None of the people who have been arrested in some of the unhappy scenes that we have seen at Balcombe are people from the village itself or indeed from the locality”

Kathryn McWhirter

Balcombe anti-fracking campaigner

Charles Metcalfe

Balcombe anti-fracking campaigner

Rodney Saunders

Vice chair of Balcombe Parish Council

Alison Stevenson

Chair of Balcombe Parish Council

She said: “We didn’t feel the need to object to it [Cuadrilla’s planning application] or to take the matter any further. I fully accept now that this was a bad judgement call. We’re as gutted as anybody else.” If the No Dash for Gas group is coming here in the full knowledge that it intends to break the law then it should stay away.”