Plans for gas drilling in Surrey Hills to face judicial review

Local campaigners succeed in bringing legal challenge after government overruled council’s rejection of project

Plans to drill for gas in the Surrey Hills will be put under judicial review and could be stopped, after local campaigners took the government to the high court.

Ministers previously gave the green light to three years of exploratory drilling at a site near Dunsfold on the edge of the Surrey Hills area of outstanding natural beauty.