Heathrow Airport win Supreme Court challenge to give green light to third runway

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HEATHROW Airport have today won a Supreme Court challenge to give the green light to a third runway.

Environmental campaigners were defeated in their final bid to block the new runway at Britain’s busiest airport.

Heathrow Airport has won a Supreme Court case for a third runway

Giving a summary of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Wednesday, Lord Sales said the Government’s decision was lawful and there was “no obligation” to discuss the Paris Agreement separately in the ANPS.

It overrules a decision by three leading judges in February which ruled former transport secretary Chris Grayling had failed to take account of the Government’s commitment to tackle climate change.

Heathrow Airport Ltd, which owns and operates the airport, challenged that decision in a two day hearing before five judges in October.

The challenge was opposed by two environmental charities, Friends of the Earth and Plan B earth.

The Government did not ask for the appeal before the Supreme Court, years after Boris Johnson vowed to “lie down in front of those bulldozers and stop the construction of that third runway.”

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