Nine Ladies

The media seems to be saying that the area around the Nine Ladies stone circle on Stanton Moor in the Peak District (background) has been saved by a High Court verdict that the quarries there are now (or still) officially dormant. But the recent verdict actually means that the quarries cannot re-open until the Peak District National Park Authority have agreed a set of working conditions for them. Stancliffe Stone still have the permission to quarry from 1952 and the Peak park still have the power to revoke the permission or to impose such restrictions that the re-opening of the quarries would be financially unviable. The protest site must and will continue to exist in order to protect our beautiful hillside (in the second most visited national park on the planet), as it is still quite possible that this awesome natural heritage of ours could be destroyed. Please don't let the media convince you that this is a victory on our behalf. Please do send your comments on the proposals to re-open Lees Cross and Endcliffe quarries to The Peak District National Park Planning Authority, Aldern House, Baslow Road, Bakewell DE45 1AE and Lord Edward Manners of Haddon Hall, Bakewell, Derbyshire DE45 1LA (who owns the land) or come and visit the protest community.

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