{"id":668564,"date":"2026-07-01T20:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668564\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:41:15","slug":"hs2-tunnel-extension-did-not-have-planning-permission-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668564\/","title":{"rendered":"HS2 tunnel extension did not have planning permission, court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Giving the ruling, Lord Justice Holgate said the tunnel extension and portal were authorised by the 2017 act, but that the planning permission under the act did not apply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the tunnel&#8217;s construction was authorised, the western portal was to be in Washwood Heath and the eastern portal in Castle Bromwich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both of these were located in the area of Birmingham City Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During 2020, HS2 decided the tunnel should be extended to the east by a further 2.9km (1.8 miles), so the tunnel would have an overall length of 5.8km, double the length of the original tunnel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tunnel&#8217;s eastern portal would be constructed further to the east so as to emerge in Water Orton, which is not under the city council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the North Warwickshire council said this change brought &#8220;[considerably] more construction and destruction to Water Orton&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Despite initially agreeing that the extension needed a separate planning application and environmental assessment HS2 Limited changed their minds and appealed to a Planning Inspector,&#8221; the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giving the ruling, Lord Justice Holgate said the tunnel extension and portal were authorised by the 2017 act,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}