2) Apply for revocation of the quarrying permission - this seems to involve (the government/somebody?) compensating the permission holder for loss of the resource.
Quote from: jfw on April 10, 2008, 07:31:52 am2) Apply for revocation of the quarrying permission - this seems to involve (the government/somebody?) compensating the permission holder for loss of the resource.But surely the quarrying company would only have to be compensated for the loss of flourospar, since this is ostensibly their main target? And from what I hear, the flourospar doesn't amount to much, so compensation might not be that difficult. Or is this wishful thinking?
I think efforts to make this a national issue were not so much to encourage government to cough up, but to highlight how powerless current legislation is and how little national park status means, hopefully with a view to creating new legislation to cover all such cases.
...the core of their supporters will always be local residents who are affected day in day out by lorries, dust, etc..
i'm going to pop a letter through Nick Clegg's letterbox next time i'm off down the rising sun.