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Sutherland spaceport plans pass further legal hurdle as Anders Holch Povlsen fails yet again heraldscotland.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from heraldscotland.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
All systems go! Land Court approve change allowing Scotland's first spaceport to be built in Highlands pressandjournal.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pressandjournal.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Scotland’s biggest private landowner has been attacked as “manipulative” and “undemocratic” after The Ferret revealed that his company lobbied the Scottish Government to stymie plans for a spaceport in Sutherland. A letter released under freedom of information law shows that Wildland Limited which runs three large estates across Scotland for Danish billionaire, Anders Holch Povlsen warned the former rural economy minister, Fergus Ewing, that its planned investments could be endangered by the spaceport. Some campaigners are angered by the lobbying, while others are disappointed. Land reformers criticise the political influence wielded by large landowners. But Wildland says it took an “opportunity to raise long-standing and well-known concerns”. It fears the port, which would be used to launch satellites into space, could damage an “important, environmentally vulnerable landscape”. ....
The UK will start issuing spaceflight licenses this summer, paving the way for first rockets to launch from British soil next year. There are still multiple prospective spaceports and rocket builders in the running. Will all of them make it across the finish line? ....
Landowner Anders Holch Povlsen s legal challenge against Space Hub Sutherland granted By Caroline McMorran | Updated: 10:27, 21 January 2021 Get the Courier and Groat sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day s newspaper A judicial review over the approval of Space Hub Sutherland will take place on April 1. A petition for a judicial review of the decision by Highland Council to grant planning consent for the £17.3 million Space Hub Sutherland has been granted. Wildland Ltd, owned by entrepreneur Anders Holch Povlsen, lodged the petition and the Court of Session has now ruled the review can proceed, with a one-day hearing set for April 1. ....