A LEGAL challenge against long-awaited plans for the Mottram bypass will reach the High Court next month.
Work on the £228m scheme, designed to tackle congestion between Manchester and Sheffield, was due to start earlier this year.
But it suffered yet another delay after an environmental charity launched a legal challenge. The Countryside Charity CPRE, also known as the Campaign to Protect Rural England, applied for a judicial review saying Transport Secretary Mark Harper failed to take into account the impact of increased carbon emissions and failed to consider alternatives to building a new road on the green belt.
Now the case is due to be heard in the High Court on October 3-4.
CPRE campaigner Anne Robinson said: "This was a disgraceful decision by the Secretary of State. He dismissed the harm the scheme would have on the local community.
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