Reporting of the regulation of the shale oil and gas and hydraulic fracturing industry, including planning permissions and permits
Lancashire councillors voted unanimously to refuse Cuadrilla’s planning application to frack up to four wells at Roseacre Wood. But they approved the company’s scheme for 88 seismic monitoring stations and three monitoring boreholes around Roseacre. The results were received in silence in the council chamber at county hall in […]
There are questions tonight about the legal advice given verbally to Lancashire councillors who have been considering Cuadrilla’s application to frack at Preston New Road. One member of the county council committee which will decide the plan said tonight councillors were told they would be breaking the law if […]
Lancashire county council’s development control committee has voted unanimously to refuse Cuadrilla’s application to frack at Roseacre Wood in the Fylde. Councillors agreed that the application was contrary to local planning policy on traffic grounds. More detail coming soon
We’ll be updating this page regularly with the latest from today’s meeting of Lancashire County Council’s development control committee in the council chamber at County Hall in Preston. The meeting is considering Cuadrilla’s application to drill, frack and test up to four wells at Roseacre Wood. But it began […]
After today’s meeting Green Party leader, Natalie Bennett, told Drill or Drop she had tremendous respect for the campaign groups which had been opposing Cuadrilla’s application.
A discussion of Cuadrilla’s plans to frack at Preston New Road at Lancashire County Council ended in chaos in the past few minutes as the meeting was adjourned without a decision
A motion to refuse Cuadrilla’s plans to frack at Preston New Road has failed.
County councillors considering Cuadrilla’s application to frack at Preston New Road in the Fylde have gone into private session. The development control committee has already adjourned once this afternoon to decide on wording on a motion to refuse the application. Council planners had recommended the application be approved. […]
Lancashire county councillors discussing Cuadrilla’s planning application to frack at Preston New Road in the Fylde returned from their lunch break and immediately adjourned the meeting. Members of the development control committee are now discussing the wording of a motion to refuse the application to drill, frack and test […]
Lancashire County Council’s development control committee has adjourned for lunch without taking a vote on Cuadrilla’s application to frack at Preston New Road. The deputy chair of the committee, Kevin Ellard, has proposed a motion that the committee should refuse the application because it was against national and […]
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