{"id":6040,"date":"2020-05-07T12:05:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T12:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=6040"},"modified":"2020-05-07T12:05:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T12:05:40","slug":"court-grants-heathrow-leave-to-appeal-on-third-runway%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=6040","title":{"rendered":"Court grants Heathrow leave to appeal on third runway\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Campaign group HACAN, which gives a voice to residents under the Heathrow flight paths, has said that today\u2019s judgement (1), <\/strong>to grant Heathrow leave to appeal does not mean a third runway is back on track. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heathrow was granted leave to appeal to the Supreme Court in its bid to\noverturn the verdict of the Court of Appeal, delivered in February, that the\nGovernment had failed to take account of the Paris Agreement on climate change\nin making its decision to allow Heathrow to start drawing up detailed plans for\na third runway (1).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HACAN chair John Stewart said, \u201cToday\u2019s ruling was much as\nexpected.  The surprise would have been\nif an appeal on an issue as big as this had not been allowed.  What it does not mean is that the third\nrunway is back on track.  Heathrow\nremains very much on its own as the Government is not backing its appeal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stewart added the post-virus situation adds to the unlikelihood of a third\nrunway ever being built: \u201cThere is real uncertainty about future demand as the\ncountry emerges from lockdown.  Investors\nwill want to make sure they will get a real return on their money before\nagreeing to the \u00a314 billion needed for a third runway which could easily rise\nby the time it goes ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court did not give a date when the appeal would be heard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Government has said it will abide by the decision on the Supreme Court.\u00a0 If Heathrow wins it will be able to resume drawing up its plans for a third runway to be presented to a Public Inquiry, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

probably within the next two years.  The Government, though, would have the final\nsay as it would need to endorse or overrule the recommendation of the planning\ninspectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Notes for editors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(1). <\/strong>https:\/\/www.supremecourt.uk\/news\/permission-to-appeal-decisions-07-may-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2).<\/strong> On 28th<\/sup>\nFebruary the Court of Appeal ruled that the Government\u2019s policy on a third\nrunway at Heathrow was illegal. It found that the Department for Transport\nshould have taken the climate change implications of the Paris Agreement into\naccount when drawing up the National Policy Statement which outlined its plans\nfor a third runway. The court invited the Government to review the climate\nsection of the National Policy Statement (NPS). \nThe NPS, drawn up by the Department for Transport, put forward the case\nfor a third runway at Heathrow.  In June\n2018 the House of Commons overwhelmingly voted in favour of the NPS by 415\nvotes to 119.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That gave Heathrow the green light\nto draw up detailed plans for the new runway.  Those plans would need to\nbe put to be put to a Public Inquiry but the principle of a third runway had\nbeen agreed by Parliament.  What the\nCourt of Appeal found was that the NPS was unlawful because it had not taken\ninto consideration the Paris Agreement and the commitment to achieve net-zero\ncarbon emissions by 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Court did not rule against a\nthird runway and invited the Government to reconsider and amend what the NPS\nabout the third runway in order to take account of the Paris Agreement.  In normal circumstances that it what a\nGovernment would do so that the project would be delayed rather than\nabandoned.  But it is widely assumed that the Prime Minister Boris\nJohnston, a long-standing opponent of Heathrow, will amend the NPS to kill off\na third runway.  The Government decided\nnot to appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Stewart on 0207 737 6641 or 07957385650  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PRESS RELEASE 7\/05\/20 for immediate use Campaign group HACAN, which gives a voice to residents under the Heathrow flight paths, has said that today\u2019s judgement (1), to grant Heathrow leave to appeal does not mean a third runway is back on track. Heathrow was granted leave to appeal to the Supreme Court in its bid … Continue reading “Court grants Heathrow leave to appeal on third runway\ufeff”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6041,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions\/6041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}