THE Court of Appeal has rejected a challenge to Government plans to go ahead with the HS2 high-speed rail project.
If built, HS2 would see trains travelling from Toton to London in under an hour.
Fifteen councils and other objectors had asked the appeal judges to order further assessment of the scheme as a whole.
All grounds of challenge were dismissed at the court yesterday.24
High Speed Rail Minister Simon Burns said: "By dismissing all seven grounds of appeal and declining to refer the case to Europe, this is the second time in four months a court has rejected attempts to derail HS2.
"Parliament is the right place to debate the merits of HS2, not the law courts, and we will introduce the hybrid Bill for Phase One before the year is out.
"I urge opponents not to waste any more taxpayers' money on expensive litigation and instead work with us on making HS2 the very best it can be."
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