ABSTRACT
The legal steps taken by the Twyford Down Association to challenge the legality of the Government’s decision could be summarized very briefly. First, the Association sought a judicial review of the decision in the English High Court. When that application failed the Association lodged a complaint with the Commission of the European Communities on the basis that the UK had broken European Community law. The Commission investigated the complaint and decided to initiate an ‘enforcement procedure’ against the UK alleging that the Government had indeed broken Community law. Later, however, the Commission terminated that same procedure and so brought to an end the ‘European’ challenge to the project on Twyford Down.
