Fracking: Decision on Lancashire shale gas site postponed amid an extraordinary legal row

‘A decision on whether or not to approve the UK’s first fracking site has been postponed amid an extraordinary legal row.

Lancashire councillors complained that their deliberations had been constrained by “secret” legal advice which they had been provided with – in private – only hours before the planned vote.

Councillor Paul Hayhurst felt so strongly that he proposed a motion to make the advice public so people could see how they were being influenced. The motion was passed and the legal advice could be published today. The vote on the site, at Little Plumpton, near Preston, was postponed until Monday.’

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