They don't have long to decide whether to press ahead with the legal challenge
Campaigners who have spent years fighting plans to build a third prison in a Chorley village have a week to decide whether to launch a last-ditch legal challenge to the development – and to secure the cash that would have to be stumped up if they lost. The government announced last month it was pressing ahead with the 1,715-inmate jail in Ulnes Walton, where it would stand alongside the existing Wymott and Garth lock-ups.
The deadline for deciding whether to try to take the prison plans to the High Court is January 15, the date by which UWAG would have to ask for “leave to appeal” against the decision to give the prison the green light. It would then be several weeks before the group learned whether its application had been successful and the case was going to be heard.
Mr Gilbert-Wooldridge oversaw a two-part public inquiry into the proposed prison, which sat across several weeks, first in the summer of 2022 and then last March. It followed an appeal by the Ministry of Justice against Chorley Council’s refusal of permission for the jail in December 2021.
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