Defend Dewley Hill
Defend Dewley Hill: Newcastle
A community campaign group lead by residents of Throckley, Newcastle, against Banks Group’s plan to extract 800,000 tonnes of coal and 40,000 tonnes of fireclay from agricultural and wooded land. They have raised concerns about the impact on local wildlife, access to countryside, local watercourses and the climate emergency.
Website: https://defenddewleyhill.org.uk
Email: defenddewleyhill@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/defendewleyhill
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DefendDewley
Dewley Hill: The Latest
In November 2020 this campaign won and residents stopped Banks Group’s last ever application for an opencast coal mine. Since summer 2019, Defend Dewley Hill have amassed thousands of letters of objection to the opencast, lead walks on the land to connect people with nature, and built networks across Newcastle to fight the opencast together.
