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Climate change ban on Grimshaw's Heathrow airport expansion reversed A new runway for London's Heathrow airport designed by architecture firm Grimshaw could go ahead after a ruling against it was overturned by the UK's top court. The third runway at Heathrow was blocked in a landmark case earlier this year, when the court of appeal agreed that expanding the airport would jeopardise the country's commitment to the Paris Agreement to limit global warming. Supreme court overturns ruling However on 16 December 2020, the supreme court overturned the decision, allowing Grimshaw's £14 billion expan...

Dewley Hill: Newcastle City Council blocks controversial coal mine Climate campaigners have expressed relief after an application to turn more than 250 acres of greenbelt land near Newcastle into an opencast coal mine was blocked. Image: Defend Dewley Hill The application for the Dewley Hill project was submitted earlier this year by Banks Mining, which argued that the project would provide essential fuel to the UK’s steel and cement sector. Its plans were built around extracting up to 800,000 tonnes of coal and 400,000 tonnes of fireclay each year. Banks Mining also pointed to the job crea...

Environmental group Friends of the Earth – which challenged the third runway plan– said that expansion is still “far from certain”, while rival expansion bidder Heathrow Hub maintains that the cost of the third runway remains prohibitive. Although the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the Paris Agreement was in fact adequately considered, Friends of the Earth head of legal Will Rundle emphasised that the judgement is “no ‘green light’ for expansion”. He added: “It makes clear that full climate considerations remain to be addressed and resolved at the planning stage. Heathro...

By Press Association 2021 A plane lands at Heathrow Airport Plans for a third runway at Heathrow have been given a major boost after the airport’s owner won a Supreme Court challenge. Heathrow Airport Ltd successfully overturned an earlier ruling that the Government had failed to take account of its own climate commitments when it approved the scheme. The west London airport said the latest decision will “allow global Britain to become a reality”. Environmental groups and other opponents of the expansion project described the outco...

Heathrow Airport wins appeal in plan for third runway Lawyers for Heathrow Airport Ltd told the court in October that the firm, which owns and operates the London airport, still wishes to go ahead with the expansion project. Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. ...