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Doubts cast over Heathrow third runway
Tuesday, 26 Mar, 2010
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Plans for a third runway at Heathrow have been thrown into serious doubt.
Lord Justice Carnwath ruled at the High Court that the government’s decision to give the third runway the green light was "untenable", the BBC reported.
Campaigners against expansion of the airport won the judgment for further consultation into the plans.
The group which sought the judicial review into the decision to give the go-ahead for the third runway includes six local councils, Greenpeace and the Campaign to Protect Rural England.
The coalition said in a joint statement that the government’s Heathrow policy "is in tatters” following the ruling.
“If the government wants to pursue its plans for Heathrow expansion it must now go back to square one and reconsider the entire case for the runway,” the group said.
The group had argued that the expansion decision was at odds with the UK’s overall climate change targets and approval of the runway was flawed by "conspicuously unfair" public consultations.
While the Department for Transport is to "robustly defend" the plan, Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell was quoted as saying: “In essence this judgment means that the game is up for a third runway at Heathrow and I am calling upon the government to accept the inevitable and lift this threat to my community.
“What we need now is a sensible approach to developing a sustainable transport policy based upon high-speed rail.”
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