A group of 15 local authorities led by Buckinghamshire CC have taken the Department for Transport (DfT) to the Appeal Court today, in attempts to block the HS2 high speed Rail line.
In March this year the High Court dismissed nine grounds for judicial review challenges against the then transport secretary Justine Greening’s decision to proceed with the £34bn HS2 scheme - a high speed rail line connecting London to the north via Birmingham.
However it upheld a challenge against the consultation process for the Government's compensation scheme for property owners along the route, with Mr Justice Ouseley ruling it had been ‘so unfair as to be unlawful’.
