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Jilly Beattie

Dog lovers celebrate Craigavon Park victory as appeal judges overrule plans for six acre campus

Thousands of campaigners including countless dog owners, are celebrating after the Court of Appeal overturned a council decision to grant planning permission to build for a £45million college inside Craigavon City Park.

Senior judges found the planning permission was "unsustainable in law" and local resident Clare McCann won her case against Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council on four separate grounds.

The council had granted planning for the new Southern Regional College on the edge of the south lake in which six acres would have been swallowed up as a site for a new college campus.

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