{"id":4381,"date":"2012-06-30T12:55:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T12:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=4381"},"modified":"2012-06-30T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T12:55:17","slug":"national-trust-mounts-legal-challenge-to-golf-resort-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=4381","title":{"rendered":"National Trust mounts legal challenge to golf resort plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The National Trust has decided to take legal action over the decision to grant planning permission for a \u00a3100m golf resort on Northern Ireland&#8217;s north coast near the Giant\u2019s Causeway, a World Heritage site. This move has generated criticism from politicians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An application to build an 18-hole golf course and hotel complex at Runkerry was approved by Environment Minister Alex Attwood in February. The trust has now said it is seeking leave for a judicial review of the decision.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Unionist Party MP Ian Paisley Jnr said he was \u2018appalled\u2019 by the charity&#8217;s actions.<\/p>\n<p>The new development, on a 365-acre site, is to be known as Bushmills Dunes Golf Resort and Spa. The scheme proved to be one of Northern Ireland&#8217;s longest running planning disputes.<\/p>\n<p>The National Trust said at the time that it was convinced that \u2018the planning application was contrary to a range of the department&#8217;s planning policies\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The charity confirmed the legal move, saying it had \u2018consistently opposed the planning application\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It pointed out that the entire development was on land zoned in the draft Northern Area Plan as the \u2018distinctive landscape setting of the World Heritage Site in which no development should take place\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>However, North Antrim MP Ian Paisley Jnr said the application had gone through \u2018every twist and turn imaginable over the last 12 years\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018For the trust to now run to the courts in a tactic to delay and stall the process is nothing short of spiteful,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Search Planning Portal<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2012\/june12\/210612\/210612_4\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Trust has decided to take legal action over the decision to grant planning permission for a \u00a3100m golf resort on Northern Ireland&#8217;s north coast near the Giant\u2019s Causeway, a World Heritage site. This move has generated criticism from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=4381\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4382,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions\/4382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}