The High Court granted Foxglove and Global Action Plan the go-ahead to challenge the decision at a hearing on Thursday, meaning a full hearing of their case is due later this year. The plans for a 72,000 square metre datacentre complex on a former landfill site on greenbelt land were opposed by local residents and campaigners, with campaign groups Foxglove and Global Action. Foxglove was able to identify twice as many data centres in the planning system which appeared to be 100MW or above, but we did not include these here as we were not able to find carbon emissions estimates for their operational phase from their developers.
After campaigners received permission on Thursday to file a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the project, Britain's approval of a hyperscale data center just?outside London is under scrutiny. The government approved plans for a 90MW Data Centre in Buckinghamshire last year after the local authority refused permission. Foxglove, a British non-profit and Global Action Plan, an environmental.
Campaigners are taking legal action over the government's decision that a large data centre should be built. In June 2024, Buckinghamshire Council rejected plans for the facility at the Woodlands. Two non-profit organisations, tech justice group Foxglove and environmental charity Global Action Plan, have launched a landmark legal challenge against the UK Government's controversial approval of a hyperscale data centre on greenbelt land near London.
This case could set a precedent that would impact future data centre projects. Our legal challenge We've launched the UK's first legal challenge against the government forcing through construction of a new hyperscale data centre in Britain. Foxglove and Global Action Plan have filed a Planning Statutory Review Appeal under Section 288 of the 1990 Town and Country Planning Act.
The Labour government now accepts that planning permission for the 90 megawatt Woodlands Park data center in Buckinghamshire should be quashed, court documents provided by the group Foxglove show. A London judge on Thursday approved Foxglove's permission to appeal the planning decision, which the developer of the site will defend. The High Court granted Foxglove and Global Action Plan the go-ahead to challenge the decision at a hearing on Thursday, meaning a full hearing of their case is due later this year.
Foxglove and Global Action Plan say theirs is the first legal challenge to a hyperscale data centre in Britain. ($1 = 0.7449 pounds).