WESTON FRONT

PRESS RELEASE…PRESS RELEASE

Mr Justice Walker has announced that he considers the consultation process at the preliminary stage of the eco-town selection process was adequate. The BARD and Weston Front action groups are currently considering their position once the full judgement has been viewed.

In response to the announcement Weston Front Spokesman Tony Henman said "We are disappointed that the court has chosen to accept the government’s process for selecting the Eco-town shortlist despite our belief that the consultation process was fatally flawed.  However this is just another battle in a long war, we now hope that the government will accept the overwhelming evidence that the Weston Otmoor development is a bad idea after the independent report (by Arup) demonstrated that the site is a manifestly bad site."

The consultation process will now move on, with government potentially reducing the shortlist before the remaining plans have to go through the planning approval process.  Mr Henman also added "If the proposal should get past the short listing stage we are confident that the planning process would then reject it."

Weston Front will also be considering its position as far as other legal challenges are concerned.

January 27^th, 2009

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