Last Friday (5th March) West Cumbria Mining lodged formal papers with the High Court to challenge Cumbria CC’s decision to refer the planning application back to the Development Control and Regulation (DC&R) Committee. This looks like a desperate attempt by West Cumbria Mining (WCM) to avoid the Council properly considering new information about the climate […]

SLACC should get a “substantive response” to our “Pre Action Protocol ” letter to Robert Jenrick by the 11th March. Lawyers from the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) refused to give an answer by today (4th March) , saying that they didn’t think it was that urgent. If the MHCLG do not

SLACC has now challenged the Secretary of State’s ongoing refusal to reconsider whether to “call in” the Cumbria Coal Mine application. Early this morning (25th February) a “pre-action” letter has been sent on our behalf by Richard Buxton solicitors, as the first step towards a Judicial Review. Read the letter here We are hoping that

Opponents of the Coal Mine proposed by West Cumbria Mining at Whitehaven now have more time to make their case! The County Council has announced that the Development Control and Regulation (DC&R) Committee will not consider the new evidence on the 6th Carbon Budget until June, and even if there is no official “reconsultation” period,

on 9th February 2021 Cumbria County Council acknowledged that the Council’s Development Control and Regulation (DC&R) Committee needs to reconsider their decision of the 2nd October 2020 before the final “Decision Notice” for the coal mine at Whitehaven is issued. There is little doubt that this reconsideration is a response to SLACCs lawyers sending “new”

Richard Buxton Solicitors have written again, on SLACC’s behalf, to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, enclosing letter from the Climate Change Committee, and asking him to reconsider whether to call in the application in or not, taking the CCC letter into account. We are also asking the SoS to confirm