A court ruling has overturned the Government’s refusal of a controversial county incinerator project near St Albans.
A ruling by the High Court of Justice today backed an appeal by energy firm Veolia, which wants to build a 380,000-tonne-a-year waste burner at New Barnfield, around one mile from Colney Heath.
The application to quash the Secretary of State’s decision was brought by Veolia Limited under section 288 of the Town and Country Planning Act.
The energy firm argued Mr Pickles had not taken into account as part of very special circumstances for building an incinerator that New Barnfield had been endorsed as an allocated waste site by a planning inspector.
Veolia’s planning application will now be referred back to Mr Pickles to reconsider.
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