Power station - Dispute over development plan for Datteln 4 enters another round
The legal dispute over the development plan for the Datteln 4 coal-fired power plant is entering another round. On Thursday, the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig overturned rulings by the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia, which had declared the plan invalid. The 4th Senate of the Federal Administrative Court justified its decision by stating that the Higher Administrative Court had based its decision in 2021 on legally unsound considerations.
The court in Münster had wrongly assumed that errors had been made in regional planning when selecting the site and that these errors had affected the urban land-use planning of the town of Datteln (case reference: BVerwG 4 CN 4.22 - 6.22).
The environmental association BUND, the town of Waltrop and several local residents had filed a lawsuit against the development plan. Following the OVG decision, the town of Datteln and the power plant operator Uniper lodged appeals, which have now been decided by the Federal Administrative Court. The Higher Administrative Court must now deal with the matter again.
Federal Administrative Court of Leipzig Chronology of the approval procedure Notice from the Federal Administrative Court
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Source: www.stern.de
