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Campaigners condemn County Council's Policy to allow quarrying in Charnwood Forest

Posted on 24/07/2009
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Leicestershire County Council have published their final proposals for the County's Mineral Strategy, which will be debated at the Cabinet meeting on the 28th July. Despite strong opposition they have retained a policy guidance that will allow quarrying to take place within Charnwood Forest.

Previous policies did not provide any guidance for quarrying within the Forest and in the absence of such guidance all such quarrying activity was effectively banned. The policy for the National Forest forbids any activity other than leisure, tourism and the planting of trees. However the County Council have explicitly excluded Charnwood Forest from the National Forest policy with the phrase