Campaigners lose fifth Stansted appeal
20.06.09
A fifth appeal by campaign group Stop Stansted Expansion (SSE) over increasing the cap on passenger numbers at Stansted Airport was dismissed by a High Court judge yesterday.
SSE lodged the oral appeal in relation to the first stage of a planned expansion of the airport, a decision that increased its passenger cap by 10 million passengers a year from 25 million to 35 million, using its current single runway.
Following the judgment SSE said that it will now have to consider whether to apply to the House of Lords to overturn the Government decision to allow the increase in passenger numbers. Earlier this week a spokesman for the airport said that SSE had had 'more appeals than Blue Peter.'
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