Fracking: Planning Permission

(asked on 1st June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many individual sites have submitted planning applications for exploratory drilling for shale gas since the lifting of the moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in 2012.


Answered by
Dominic Raab Portrait
Dominic Raab
This question was answered on 11th June 2018

Since 2012, 10 planning applications for individual shale exploration proposals have been submitted. 5 of these applications have been granted planning permission.

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