A high court legal battle surrounding Prologis’s proposed 1.2m sq ft mega-shed for Amazon in Widnes has rolled over into a third day.
Both Hale Bank parish council and defendant Halton borough council will be called to make final submissions tomorrow in the judicial review at Manchester Civil Justice Centre.
The case had been scheduled to complete on Monday and Tuesday, but will now conclude tomorrow.
Hale Bank argued on Monday that it did not benefit from fair and effective consultation into the planning application.
A planning application was submitted by Prologis on 20 July 2011, and statutory notices published around the site and in the local press in early August 2011.
The statutory 21-day consultation period was observed, but Hale Bank said it wanted longer to receive professional advice from a planning consultant.
Halton pressed on and approved the scheme on 30 August.
On Tuesday, Vincent Fraser QC, representing Halton Council, said the opponents at Hale Bank Parish Council knew the sites well and had been “agitating” against development for 12 years.
Fraser told the hearing that Prologis and Amazon had set a strict deadline for starting operations, and told Halton the deal would be aborted if timings were not met.
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