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The Peak District National Park is one of England's most loved beauty spots. But a new judgement allows potentially uncontrolled limestone extraction, which threatens to remove the eastern end of the Park.
A High Court judgement has recently overturned a planning decision, which means that excessive limestone quarrying at Backdale Quarry in the Park is no longer illegal.
This judgment could act as a precedent, allowing increased damage at other quarries in the Derbyshire Peak District and beyond.
Backdale Quarry
Friends of the Earth is urging Government ministers to save the Peak District National Park from uncontrolled quarrying.
A major new coalition of national and local groups are working together to save the Parks, including:
Please write to both Hazel Blears, Secretary of State, Department for Communities and Local Government, and Hilary Benn, Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary (responsible for National Parks).
Ask them to challenge the High Court decision and explain why this is important for the National Park.
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