A Suffolk protest group has lost its judicial review into planning permission for two ScottishPower Renewables wind farms off the east coast of England.
In a judgement handed down by the High Court today, Justice Holgate dismissed the case by the Suffolk Energy Action Solutions (SEAS) group.
At a two-day hearing at the Administrative Court in London in May SEAS had told the court agreements between the developer and landowners covering onshore elements for the 600MW East Anglia 1 North and 900MW EA2 projects restricted the amount of information supplied to environmental impact assessments.
It claimed heads of terms agreements had prevented or discouraged stakeholders from airing concerns or raising objections.
It said then BEIS Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng should have interrogated the situation before allowing Development Consent Orders for the farms in March 2022.
However, in the judgement Justice Holgate said there was no merit in the allegation that the then Secretary of State “had failed to take into account the relevance of the allegations by SEAS to the planning merits of the scheme (i.e., whether development consent should be granted)”.