Residents in the North Yorkshire village of Burniston have a chance to give their views later this month on plans to explore for gas on the edge of the national park and heritage coast.
Burniston Parish Council has called an extraordinary meeting to discuss the proposals by Europa Oil and Gas for a temporary well site and small-scale hydraulic fracture on farmland off the coastal road.
The meeting, on Tuesday 15 April 2025, will give each member of the public the chance to speak for up to three minutes.
The council will use the views of residents to shape its response to Europa’s planning application, to be decided by North Yorkshire Council.
The meeting is at 7pm at Burniston and Cloughton Village Hall, Burniston YO13 0HJ. Link to meeting agenda
Europa said its application seeks permission for three years to drill a 1.7km long borehole on land 800m south of the North York Moors National Park and 700m from the North Yorkshire and Cleveland Heritage Coast.
The company also plans to carry out a proppant squeeze, a form of low-volume hydraulic fracturing, where water and proppant is pumped at high pressure to fracture rocks and release gas.
At the time of writing, nearly a thousand individual online comments have been published on the North Yorkshire Council planning portal.
DrillOrDrop will publish an analysis of the responses after the consultation closes on Thursday 17 April 2025.
Comments can be made online, by email to planning.control@northyorks.gov.uk or by post to Planning, County Hall, Northallerton, DL7 8AH.
- Application number: NY/2025/0030/ENV
- Link to application details
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