The Peak District National Park Authority has welcomed a refusal by the European Court of Human Rights to hear an appeal in connection with Backdale quarry on Longstone Edge.
This brings to an end the legal possibilities of overturning the Authority's enforcement action to halt excessive limestone extraction at the quarry, which was upheld by the Court of Appeal in March 2009.
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