Huge thanks to Wicklesham's supporters for your donations to the recent CrowdJustice Appeal, which raised £1,485.00 towards outstanding legal fees for the Judicial Review. This was the third Appeal, and local people have once again shown their generosity and support for Wicklesham Quarry SSSI. Our case sought the Court's judgment on Faringdon Council's Neighbourhood Plan policy to allocate Wicklesham Quarry SSSI, "one of Britain's richest palaeontological localities", for use as an industrial estate, in spite of the fact that it has planning conditions for restoration and agricultural aftercare. The site is also a Conservation Target Area, and hosts Priority Habitat and European Protected Species. Although judgment was given against us, the Court ruled that the existing planning conditions must be upheld. The situation now appears somewhat contradictory, in that it allows for the possibility of turning the site into an industrial estate at a future date - provided that it has been fully restored to agricultural land. The environmental policies that should ensure this nationally designated site is protected apparently played little part in the judge's decisions, although it is to be hoped that these policies will carry greater weight if a planning application comes forward in the future. The overwhelming sense of local supporters is that, in spite of the fact that former quarries with restoration and aftercare conditions are not "brown field sites", it is nevertheless acceptable for landowners to treat them as if they were merely industrial wasteland. This was the approach taken by Faringdon Council, which described Wicklesham Quarry as a "development opportunity" and wrongly described it as "brown field site" in the Basic Conditions Statement. Our case has raised important issues concerning the environmental value and vulnerability of the UK's former mineral workings, and the role and effectiveness of planning conditions for sites that have the potential to be our richest resources for bio and geodiversity.