Campaigners have lost a legal challenge against Cardiff council's decision to approve plans for a sewage development at a popular park. The Llandaff North Residents' Association, which brought the legal challenge against Cardiff council, alleged that the planning process which saw an application for a sewage pumping station for land at Hailey Park, Llandaff North, approved was not carried out properly.
Campaigners claimed that there should have been greater scrutiny over the plans and that the council did not have all of the relevant information before them, like an environmental impact assessment (EIA), before making a decision on the application. During the hearing at the Cardiff Civil Justice Centre on Thursday, July 29, a barrister representing the council told the court that the local authority gave close and careful consideration to the development when undertaking its EIA.
The legal challenge lost on all grounds. Although disappointed with the ruling, campaigners said it does not mark the end of their fight against the pumping station plans.
