Has the coronavirus pandemic ended hopes of expanding Heathrow airport? – Africana55 Radio

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During a two-day appeal hearing this week, judges in the Supreme Court heard detailed arguments about whether the government was right to greenlight a third runway at Heathrow.

The Court of Appeal had concluded in February that the government had not properly taken account of its own climate change commitments when approving a national policy statement on aviation in 2018. The judgment was branded a “major environmental breakthrough” and the court itself described it as a case of “exceptional public interest”.

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