Crowdjustice Appeal is LIVE! Click on the link: https://www.crowdjustice.co.uk/case/sssi-and-conservationtarget-area/ Please give this important case your support by making a donation, and forward this update and link to Facebook, family, and friends. Without your help I cannot continue the fight to save this exceptional site! I need to raise £10,000 by 25th October in order to lodge an Application for Judicial Review, and then a stretch target of £16,500 for the full hearing. This includes court fees, submission of documents, an application hearing and full hearing. It allows for restricted costs under the Aarhus Agreement. If I cannot meet these targets, Wicklesham Quarry, because it is part of Faringdon Neighbourhood Plan, will be lost under concrete and warehouses. For eight years, Wicklesham Quarry's owners have fought off the planning conditions they originally agreed to, and sought unsuccessfully to get the quarry included in the Local Plan. It has been clear for eight years that aims to industrialize Wicklesham Quarry were NOT COMPATIBLE with: - * Local Plan strategic policies for the protection of the Corallian Ridge National Character Area; * Oxfordshire's Biodiversity Action Plan- in which Wicklesham is a Conservation Target Area; * Wicklesham's SSSI designation , and "one of Britain's richest Palaeontological sites"; * the independent Land Reviews carried out by URS Ltd. for the Vale District Council- which show that Wicklesham Quarry would MORE THAN DOUBLE the amount of employment land Faringdon needs until 2031: * Oxfordshire's Minerals and Waste Policy, which in line with National Planning Policy Framework, emphasizes the need to “provide for restoration and aftercare at the earliest opportunity to be carried out to high environmental standards, through the application of appropriate conditions, where necessary.” Oxfordshire's Deputy Director, Bev Hindle, recently said that Wicklesham Quarry's restoration was: "of primary importance for the environment and constitutes an imperative reason of overriding public interest." Faringdon Council's use of the Neighbourhood Plan to support the long-standing ambition of an individual landowner means the Council is ploughing a furrow in the opposite direction to both the Local Plan and National Planning Policy Framework. We do not believe this was the intention of the Localism Act! Please support the CrowdJustice Appeal and help me Protect Wicklesham Quarry! https://www.crowdjustice.co.uk/case/sssi-and-conservationtarget-area/