Proposals for fracking for shale gas at two sites in Lancashire should be refused, planning officers have recommended.
Lancashire County Council has published reports with recommendations on planning applications from shale company Cuadrilla to develop two new sites to explore for shale gas by drilling, fracking and testing the flow of gas.
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The council's development control committee is due to make decisions next week on the planning applications for the two sites, at Preston New Road, near Little Plumpton, and Roseacre Wood, near Roseacre, both between Blackpool and Preston.
The British Geological Survey has identified the M65 corridor, from Blackburn through to Burnley and Colne, as having areas said to be rich in underground shale gas reserves.
The proposal by Cuadrilla has provoked widespread opposition across Lancashire.
The recommendation to the county development control committee says the proposed development would be contrary the key policies in the Fylde Borough Local Plan as ‘it has not been satisfactorily demonstrated that noise impacts would be reduced to acceptable levels and would therefore unnecessarily and unacceptably result in harm to the amenity of neighbouring properties by way of noise pollution’.
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