Case No: C1/2009/2762/QBACF
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)
ON APPEAL FROM
Mr Justice Cranston
CO/10993/2009
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Date: 30/07/2010
Before :
LORD JUSTICE SEDLEY
LORD JUSTICE LLOYD
and
LORD JUSTICE SULLIVAN
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Campaigners against a controversial wind turbine scheme at a Norfolk sports car manufacturer have won their latest legal bid to get a planning decision overturned.
Objectors welcomed the news after it emerged that a group of local residents had won the right to challenge the construction of three 120metre masts at Lotus Cars.
Appeal judges have quashed a district council's decision to approve a wind farm because of its unusual voting procedures.
South Norfolk District Council backed the wind farm, even though an area planning committee voted against it by 5:3. The application was referred to the main planning committee because the majority required for the area committee to make a decision was two thirds or more.
