StartFragment The planning application for a fracking exploration on the edge of a Woodsetts has been unanimously rejected by councillors who not only followed the advice of their officials, but added their own reasons for refusing it based on causing traffic problems. Rotherham’s planning officials had recommended against the application on the basis that insufficient ecological surveys had been carried out, to protect birds and bats. This brings the number of planning decis

Click the link below to put your name to the Friends of the Earth objection against fracking in Woodsetts. Do it before this Thursday !!! https://act.friendsoftheearth.uk/act/protect-rotherham-frackers

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council planning board will be meeting on Thursday 8 March 2018, at 10:30am at the Town Hall, Moorgate Street, Rotherham S60 2TH to decide whether to approve INEOS' initial plans towards fracking in Woodsetts, South Yorkshire. These plans consist of an industrial site to be in place for up to 5 years, with a 60m high drilling rig, 24x7 noise and light pollution, and a 600% increase in HGV traffic on rural roads. Woodsetts Against Fracking (WAF)