Bristol Civil Justice Centre, 2 Redcliffe Street, Bristol, UK. 8th November 2022. Protesters against Bristol Airport Expansion
Bristol Civil Justice Centre, 2 Redcliffe Street, Bristol, UK. 8th November 2022. A court room at Bristol’s Civil and Family Justice Centre in Redcliffe is a High Court this week, as environmental campaigners from the Bristol Airport Action Network (BAAN) mount a legal challenge to try to overturn the decision which gave planning permission to Bristol Airport to expand. Bristol Airport’s initial proposal for an extended airport terminal, and an increase in capacity from around nine million passengers a year to 12 million, was refused planning permission by North Somerset Council’s planners back in January 2020. The airport’s owners - the Ontario Teachers' Pension Fund - appealed to the government, and a planning inspector overturned that decision and granted permission in February this year. But work has not yet started, because the campaigners who have fought a long battle against the airport expansion plans mounted a legal challenge - paid for by donations through a crowdfunder - claiming that the Government’s planning inspector did not take the Government’s own climate change Net Zero policies and laws into consideration enough. That case will be heard this week, starting on Tuesday, and the climate change activists and campaigners say they intend to be there outside the court. One group is called the ‘Aged Agitators’, a group of over-70s who wear silver capes and masks and stage stunts to highlight environmental issues. There will also be a mass choir of more than 70 singers, and Extinction Rebellion Bristol will also be holding a vigil outside the court on both days of the hearing, Tuesday and Wednesday this week, between 8am and 4pm. When the Bristol Airport Action Network group of campaigners were given permission to appeal the planning inspector’s decision, the airport’s lawyers tried and failed to argue that the High Court case should be heard at the actual High Court in London, and not at a temporarily convened High Court in Bristol.
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