Will It Be All Systems Go For The Ordsall Curve?
This article in Rail Technology Magazine is entitled Court of Appeal dismisses Ordsall Chord legal challenge and it talks about Mark Whitby’s fight to stop the Ordsall Chord being built.
This is said.
A legal appeal following the dismissal of a challenge to the process for granting permission for the Ordsall Chord has been dismissed.
The Court of Appeal today upheld a ruling to dismiss a challenge from Mark Whitby, former president of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
The Court dismissed all three appeals made by Whitby against the decision of Lang J in the Mrs Justice Beverley Lang: two statutory challenges of the Transport and Works Act order and of the Listed Building Consent, and a judicial review of the planning permission. The Court of Appeal will hand down its judgement early in the new term, after Easter.
I hope this is the end of it, and work can proceed on the much-needed new infrastructure.
But I suppose there’s always the Supreme and European Courts!
I am a Londoner and one thing puzzles me about this case. If say in London, there was an argument about such a piece of infrastructure, those making the fuss would be local people, as they are in Chelsea and Wimbledon over Crossrail 2. In all the reports on the Ordsall Chord, the councils, politicians and the media seem to be in favour and only one lone person is against.
This article in Building gives an insight into Mark Whitby.
The Anonymous Widower 
Hopefully Whitby has reached the end of the road.
On a bright point ork certainly does seem to have gone ahead – I accidentally click google maps when looking up the story and it already has
“Site Compound 7 Ordsall Chord, Northern Hub Alliance, United Kingdom ”
on the map!
Comment by Mark Clayton | March 24, 2016 |
Let’s hope that’s it. In the next week or so, I’ll be coming up to have a look.
Did you read the article in Building?
Comment by AnonW | March 24, 2016 |
[…] But will the locals put up a fight as Mark Whitby has at the Ordsall Curve? […]
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Yes it’s good to see Ordsall Chord finally started. The link below describes the exact nature of its impact. Personally I think it will improve the look of the Irwell as it will reveal Stephensons’s magnificent viaduct.
One irony is that the plate girder bridge, which obscured view of this viaduct when it was built in 1860 and so by today’s standards caused it substantial harm. However English Heritage and Mark Whitby consider that removing this harm is causing harm!
http://shirresrailarticles.com/ordsall-chord
Comment by dshirres | March 31, 2016 |