Cuardrilla fracking protesters have taken to the streets ahead of today’s council decision.
Fashion designer and personality Vivienne Westwood is among those expected to attend a rally outside Lancashire County Hall in Preston.
City leaders will decide today on whether to give the green light to fracking for shale gas in Lancashire.
Energy firm Cuadrilla wants to develop two new sites between Preston and Blackpool to explore for shale gas by drilling, fracking and testing the flow of gas.
A report from Lancashire County Council planning officials recommended that one of the sites – at Preston New Road near Little Plumpton – be passed subject to a number of conditions being met such as hours of working, control of noise and highway matters.
Fracking was suspended in the UK in 2011 following earth tremors in Blackpool where Cuadrilla previously drilled.