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Legal appeal over Stanton Moor quarries to go ahead

Submitted by PaulM on Wednesday, 02 March 2005  Page Views: 3270

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A legal appeal to decide the status of Lees Cross and Endcliffe quarries will go ahead next week, after a request by the quarry company Stancliffe Stone to adjourn the case was refused by the Court of Appeal.

The decision by the Court of Appeal to dismiss the adjournment application means that it will hear Stancliffe Stone's appeal during early March. The court fully considered the company's grounds put forward in its application, but declined the request.

Peak District National Park Authority Chair Tony Hams said: "Although we agreed not to oppose Stancliffe Stone's request for an adjournment there was always a possibility that it would be refused, and so we continued with our preparations to defend the case.

"This means that we are fully prepared for next week's appeal and will vigorously defend the previous court decision that was in our favour. Whatever the court now decides, our efforts will be to try and end the threat of quarrying."

Last year the High Court confirmed the National Park Authority's view that the status of the quarries was dormant. Stancliffe Stone originally appealed against the court's decision, but last month it applied for an adjournment of the hearing.

The National Park Authority decided not to oppose the adjournment request because it would have allowed more time to explore possible solutions to the long-running controversy over the quarries.

The appeal will not consider whether the quarries should be reopened (they already have planning permission dating back to the 1950s), but will decide their legal status - dormant or active.

The status is important because, if dormant, modern conditions to control their working have to be agreed before stone extraction can start. In addition, the National Park Authority would have more freedom to impose conditions without the risk of having to pay compensation.

The quarries were declared dormant by the National Park Authority in the 1990s because they had not been worked for decades.

Until the status is resolved the quarries will remain dormant and no work can take place.
Source: Peak District National Park Authority
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Nine Ladies Graffiti by Anonymous on Monday, 14 March 2005
Do you know of anyone called KYLE that has been to the Nine Ladies between 1st and 12th March 2005 (probably 5th or 6th)? They have carved their name into the top of the nearest stone to the King stone. This is a criminal offence and also a total disrespect of the stones. If you know them, send them to me for some "re-education". Don't expect them to come back. Find him and educate him (or carve NINE LADIES into his forehead).
Stone vandals - your time will come . . .
Also there is definite climbing damage to three stones usually caused by people letting their kids jump up and down on this magical cathedral. STOP IT NOW.
To see the lichen free areas of fresh stone just feels like someone has slashed the stones and is just waiting for a frost to eat it's way in. Do I damage your church? Of course not, I respect it's sacred nature to you, so why do you damage mine?
We cheered the stones up with some love and drumming. They feel full of energy just recently. I think they are getting excited about the possible removal of the immediate quarrying threat.

A Guardian of the Nine Ladies
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Re: by TimPrevett on Friday, 04 March 2005
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For the reasons of crediting, it's the Matlock Mercury, cheers,

Tim
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    Re: by Anonymous on Friday, 04 March 2005
    Matlock Mockery......S'fine.
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Re: by PaulM on Friday, 04 March 2005
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From the Matlock Chronicle courtesy of stu:

THE COURT of Appeal has turned down a joint bid between the Peak District National Park Authority (PDNPA) and a Matlock stone company to delay quarrying at two controversial sites on Stanton Moor.
Lord Justice Chadwick and Lord Justice Gage were critical of the application and said the courts should not be used as a pawn between the company and the PDNPA.

They said that asking for an adjournment in the public interest is "a subjective test because there may be other sides to what is in the public interest".

The application, which was refused on February 24, means that Stancliffe Stone will this week continue with a legal bid to overturn a 2004 ruling on the legal status of the quarries.

Peak Park chairman Tony Hams said: "We are fully prepared for this week's appeal and will vigorously defend the previous court decision that was in our favour.

"Whatever the court now decides, our efforts will be to try and end the threat of quarrying."

Stancliffe Stone manager Mike Jones said: "We have made a clear commitment to securing supply of Stanton Moor building stone and we are currently looking into all commercially viable options to Endcliffe and Lees Cross."

The appeal will consider the legal status of the quarries, if they are ruled dormant modern conditions to control their working can be imposed - including the amount of stone that can be extracted.

Villagers in Stanton in Peak are jubilant as they believe the adjournment would have opened the door to an extension at nearby Dale View quarry which is currently operative.

Parish council chairman Alan Martin said: "Why didn't the Peak Park determine whether or not Endcliffe and Lees Cross were dormant or active before considering the other option of Dale View?

"How can you negotiate a land swap when you don't know what you are swapping?"

Jim Dixon, chief executive of the Peak Park, dismissed villagers' claims that secret deals had been brokered between the authority and Stancliffe Stone as "fictitious nonsense" and described the parish council's intervention in the hearing as a "sideshow".

Mr Dixon said: "We have made it very clear to the parish councils that the views of the local people will be taken into account."

Lees Cross and Endlcliffe quarries have been the subject of a bitter dispute over quarrying rights for the last five years because of environmental reasons and their proximity to the historic Nine Ladies Stone Circle.
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