Protesters today failed to block the £700m Birmingham Northern Relief Road in the Court of Appeal.
The court upheld a High Court decision in 1998 that gave the go-ahead for Midland Expressway’s 27-mile toll road.
A spokesman for Midland Expressway said that work would now be resumed on the road.
R v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and others, ex parte Alliance Against the Birmingham Relief Road and others, Court of Appeal (Bingham MR, Aldous and Buxton LJJ), 23 March 1999
John Howell QC and Nathalie Lieven (instructed by Leigh Day & Co) appeared for the appellants; Philip Sales (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor) appeared for the first respondent; Nigel Plemming QC and Sean Wilken (instructed by Ashurst Morris Crisp) appeared for the second respondent.
See also:
Birmingham Relief Road protesters return to court PLS News 23/2/99
R v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, ex parte Alliance Against the Birmingham Relief Road (QB) [8] PLSCS 235
PLS News 23/3/99
