Cornish Lithium's project receives national significance status

The British miner's Trelavour Hard Rock project near St Austell in Cornwall has been deemed as 'nationally significant'.

The Secretary of State for Housing Communities and Local Government, Angela Rayner, awarded the status of Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project after considering the details against the criteria required.

It was deemed to have met the criteria in the following ways:

• The project is deemed to have significant economic impact and important in driving growth.
• It has an impact on a region bigger than one single local authority area.
• It focuses on the extraction of a strategically important industrial mineral.

Angela Rayner also considers the project to benefit from going through a single consenting process provided by the Planning Act, so it need not apply for separate powers and cosents.

Jeremy Wrathall, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Cornish Lithium says, 'This marks another stage in the UK’s journey from relying on imported lithium to maximising the potential of the industrial scale of lithium that already lies beneath our feet at existing brownfield sites in Cornwall.'