North East Pylon Pressure Campaign loses pylon challenge

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North East Pylon Pressure Campaign Limited lost its High Court challenge on 12 May 2016, when Mr Justice Richard Humphreys refused leave for judicial review. The case concerned the proposed North/South electricity interconnector and An Bord Pleanála’s role in its development consent process.

The judgment found the application premature because the Board had not made a substantive decision affecting the applicants. It held that intermediate steps in an ongoing consent process should generally be challenged only in exceptional circumstances, while preserving the applicants’ ability to challenge the final outcome on substantial grounds, if available.