Doncaster Airport was scheduled to close due to lack of financial viability. The local authority launched a legal challenge, but to no avail.
In this week’s NLJ, local government and legal issues writer Nicholas Dobson looks at the doomed judicial review in detail, examining why it failed and whether anything could have been done.
Sadly, the local authority’s case foundered on the lack of arguability and was judged to have no reasonable prospect of success. While the case failed to take off, however, there may be better news ahead for Doncaster itself, as the local authority is now in the early stages of a compulsory purchase order.
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