Legal Challenge to M6 Link Road
A High Court challenge has been made to the planning permission for the Heysham/M6 Link Road proposal by Linda Davies, of Russell Drive, Torrisholme. Mrs Davies, a retired social worker and a former teacher at Lancaster and Morecambe College, has secured legal aid enabling her lawyers, Essex-based EarthRights, to contest points of appeal in the planning application, which was approved by the secretary of state last month.
EarthRights have written to Lancashire County Council outlining their three-pronged appeal after campaigners from Transport Solutions for Lancaster and Morecambe (TSLM) declined to mount a legal bid. EarthRights argue that the road’s environmental assessment was “inadequate” They also claim the county council failed to assess properly alternative measures, such as public transport, and did not look into the risk of flooding.