Guardian: Planning decisions on the UKs full scale fracking have been deferred for eight weeks by Lancashire county council (LCC), which was due to decide this week on two proposals from shale gas explorer Cuadrilla.
But after council planning officers recommended last week that permission should be refused on the grounds of unnacceptable noise and heavy truck traffic, Cuadrilla submitted revised proposals.
LCCs chief legal adviser said on Wednesday that these proposals were substantive and therefore...