Residents who had planned a quiet and peaceful retirement on the Fylde Coast now say they are living in fear for their future after a ban on fracking was controversially lifted.
Prime Minister Liz Truss announced today stressed the controversial practice will only return to communities that accept it. But residents of Little Plumpton say if support for fracking is what new leader of the Conservative Party wants, then she will not find it in their community.
She said: "You move to an area like this to retire. I mean, I've lived in St. Annes for years, I had a business there, and you move here to retire, and have it comfortable. But now, nobody's gonna want to buy your property. I'm getting to an age where I'd really like to downsize now and nobody's going to want to move here.
"It's not just going to affect us here in the immediate area, it's going to affect the rest of Blackpool and everywhere, and those fumes, that's what you're going to be inhaling, it's not right, I'm not happy about it. "If they tried to apply for anything else, we'll definitely be fighting that as best we can. Absolutely. My wife was his chair of the Preston new road Action Group, so she fought Cuadrilla's planning applications all the way through the planning application process.
Tina Rothery, of Frack Free Nanas said that this was like dangling a carrot in front of an already starving community.
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