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Evening Standard
Rebecca Speare-Cole

Developers stop oil drilling in Surrey amid legal row after Supreme Court ruling

Developers have suspended oil extraction at the Horse Hill site in Surrey four months after the Supreme Court quashed its planning permission (Gareth Fuller/PA) - (PA Archive)

Developers have suspended oil extraction at a site in Surrey four months after the Supreme Court quashed its planning permission.

Climate campaign group Friends of the Earth, which supported local activist Sarah Finch during the original case, sent a legal letter to Surrey County Council last Tuesday over the “unlawful” continued extraction at Horse Hill, near Horley.

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