In April the Peak District National Park considered the findings of the High Court in the Judicial Review of the planning permission for extraction of fluorspar and mineralisation at Winster Moor. Permission was granted to Glebe Mines Ltd for the extraction of fluorspar and associated mineralisation on land at Winster Moor. The proposal involved the extraction of 376,000t of vein minerals (fluorspar, barytes and lead) by opencast methods over four years. The applicant had offered to sell the vein mineral rights on the eastern end of Longstone Edge (an area including Backdate Quarry) to the Authority for a nominal sum of 1 pound, in exchange for developing the Winster site (see Mineral Planning 98 p. 19). The report to the Planning Committee in November 2003 recommended the acceptance of this offer and the grant of planning permission; the rights offered were the vein mineral rights -the surface of the land and the rights to other minerals (limestone) were held by Bleaklow Industries Ltd which was not the applicant.
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