Quarrying at Backdale on Longstone Edge has been suspended, but an appeal is possible

The long battle to save one of the Peak District’s most contentious stretches of countryside is not over, campaigners have warned.

The Save Longstone Edge Group says the area around Longstone is still at risk, even though Law Lords upheld a ruling that stopped large amounts of limestone being quarried by operators Bleaklow Industries.

The campaign group understands the company is seeking leave to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against the Lords’ decision, which backed an earlier Court of Appeal judgement upholding enforcement action by the Peak District National Park Authority to stop large-scale limestone quarrying under a permission granted in 1952.

Both the British Mountaineering Council and the Ramblers backed the campaign against quarrying at Backdale. The two organisations are members of the Longstone Edge Coalition, which also includes the Council for National Parks and the Campaign to Protect Rural England.

Further worries over quarrying concern Peak Pasture near the village of Calver, which is also subject to further workings by Glebe Mines.

The area is less than 3km (2 miles) from the renowned climbing routes on Curbar Edge and Baslow Edge.

A public meeting will be held by the Save Longstone Edge Group on Tuesday, 13 April at Calver Village Hall at 7.30pm.

• Climbers are also being encouraged to attend a public meeting to discuss the future of a climbing crag in West Yorkshire. The crag, at Holmfirth – better known as the setting for the geriatric antics of the cast of Last of the Summer Wine – is the subject of a discussion by the Holme Valley Parish Council Land Charity.

There are fears that the disused Cliff Quarry could be viewed as prime development land and lost as a climbing venue.

The BMC’s Martin Kocsis and local access representative Rick Gibbon will be at the meeting on 20 April at Wooldale Community Centre. The meeting starts at 7.30pm.