DEFRA given eight months to devise new air quality plan

The High Court has ordered the government to replace its illegal air quality plan with a more ambitious scheme within eight months.

On 21 November, Mr Justice Garnham ruled that a revised plan must be published in draft by 24 April and finalised by 31 July. DEFRA had sought to have until September 2017 to do so, a timeframe the judge considered “far too leisurely.”