The Weald Action Group’s Supreme Court victory is starting to have effects across the country.
Today, Angela Rayner, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, has admitted that a controversial new coal mine in Cumbria was permitted unlawfully. Michael Gove, ex Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, granted planning permission for the mine in December 2022. Read a press release from Friends of the Earth
And the the Secretary of State and oil company Egdon Resources Limited have accepted that planning permission for an oil development at Biscathorpe in Lincolnshire was unlawful. Read an update from Cornerstone Barristers
