{"id":72569,"date":"2020-02-28T08:40:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T08:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=72569"},"modified":"2020-02-28T08:40:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T08:40:44","slug":"heathrow-expansion-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/heathrow-expansion-reaction\/72569\/","title":{"rendered":"Future infrastructure decisions could &#8216;face same scrutiny as Heathrow&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Yesterday (27 February), the Court of Appeal ruled that the expansion of Heathrow Airport had failed to take climate obligations into account and was, therefore \u2018unlawful\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The decision to veto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/climate-from-heathrow\/72552\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heathrow expansion plans<\/a> came after <a href=\"https:\/\/friendsoftheearth.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Friends of the Earth<\/a> pursued legal action. Campaigners have been contesting Heathrow\u2019s third runway plans for years.<\/p>\n<p>Judges ruled that if the third runway is to go ahead in the future, it must fit with the UK\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/legal-action-against-heathrow\/44210\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climate policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Every infrastructure decision could face legal challenges<\/h3>\n<p>Commenting on the judges\u2019 decision, Julian Francis, director of external affairs at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acenet.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Association for Consultancy and Engineering<\/a> (ACE), said: \u201cFrom now on, every infrastructure spending decision in the UK could face a legal challenge if it doesn&#8217;t comply with the Climate Change Act, which mandates zero emissions by 2050. It&#8217;s not clear at present that this was an outcome that MPs intended when they signed up to the 2050 target, but in today&#8217;s court ruling, it&#8217;s what they&#8217;ve got.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe judgement\u2019s implications are clearly wider than just Heathrow as the Judges have stated that climate change must be kept at the heart of all planning decisions and that developers and public authorities can be held to account if their proposed schemes negatively impact UK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/tag\/climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climate change commitments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I predict that the government will now be looking at ways to mitigate the implications of the judgement. However, in the short term, Heathrow is in limbo and as the Prime Minister has announced that he does not plan to appeal against the ruling, this will undoubtedly also call into question aviation expansion in the UK more generally \u2013 there is currently no viable technical fix to make planes zero-carbon.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Temperature goal is binding<\/h3>\n<p>Heidi Copland is a partner and head of planning at city law firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmhstallard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DMH Stallard<\/a>, said: &#8220;The new runway, which would bring roughly 700 extra planes to the airport every day, would see a large increase in carbon emissions. Initial cost indications for the project of \u00a314bn are now claimed at more than double that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In its judgement the Court was careful to state that it was not making a decision that a third runway would always be incompatible with the UK\u2019s commitment to reducing carbon emissions and mitigating climate change under the Paris Agreement, but as things currently stood, the ANPS was of no legal effect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the first decision of its kind to hold that the temperature goal set out in the Paris Agreement has binding effect on those who signed up to it. In 2015 then secretary of state for transport Chris Grayling stated that 2015 Paris agreement, which amongst other goals set a target of keeping global temperature rise below 2C, was \u201cnot relevant\u201d to climate policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe effect of this ruling is to hold otherwise, and may open the door to further challenges of national planning policies which have failed to take the Paris Agreement into consideration, not just in the UK but in all member countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Heathrow said it will challenge the decision, the government said it would not appeal.<\/p>\n<h3>Government\u2019s decision not to appeal is disappointing<\/h3>\n<p>Mark Reynolds, group chief executive of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macegroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mace<\/a>, said: \u201cThe government\u2019s decision not to appeal the ruling against Heathrow\u2019s expansion is disappointing. Without expansion at Heathrow, we are limiting our ambition and putting the sustainable future growth of the UK construction and infrastructure sector at risk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe third runway is a vital project that would create hundreds of thousands of much-needed jobs and 10,000 apprenticeships across the UK; as well as expanding the country\u2019s passenger and exports capacity. 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