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Bristol Post
Bristol Post
National
Tristan Cork & Estel Farell Roig

Bristol Airport: Date set for appeal against expansion as opponents win first little victory

Campaigners trying to stop Bristol Airport's multi-million pound expansion plans have secured a small victory in their ongoing legal battle.

The campaigners have launched a High Court challenge to the Government's decision to allow the airport to expand with new terminal buildings, which would see the number of passengers increase from around nine million a year to 12 million.

At a court hearing to set the date for the two-day appeal case, there was a dispute about where that hearing should take place.

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