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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...

The Supreme Court has found in favour of Heathrow Airport, overturning a decision by the Court of Appeal to rule the airport’s expansion plans illegal. The decision was announced virtually at 9:45 this morning, with the court deciding that the airport’s plans for a third runway were lawful. The court listened to cases made in October, with Heathrow Airport itself appealing the original ruling to block the plans, and environmental pressure groups Friends of the Earth and Plan B Earth defending the ruling. A Heathrow spokesperson said: “This is the right result for the country, wh...

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...

A third runway at Heathrow may still never happen Simon Calder © Provided by The Independent Environmentalists are despondent at the Supreme Court’s decision to side with Heathrow airport over its expansion plans. The judges ruled that Chris Grayling, when promoting a new third runway as transport secretary, did not fail to take into account the UK’s climate change commitments under the Paris Agreement. One opponent – Tim Crosland, a lawyer representing Plan B Earth – was so upset that he broke the embargo on the ruling “as an act of civil disobedience”. He now ...

In his statement yesterday, Crosland emphasised that when former transport secretary Chris Grayling approved the expansion in June 2018, he assessed its climate impact against the “historic" temperature limit of 2˚C warming, rather than the 1.5˚C temperature goal in the Paris Agreement. “Had he assessed Heathrow expansion against the 1.5˚C temperature goal in the Paris Agreement, he could not have approved it,” Crosland said. “Mr Grayling’s hidden reliance upon the discredited, dangerous 2˚C limit to support his plans was a treasonous betrayal of the young people of this country...