No public interest in allowing ‘proximity principle’ issue to be appealed to Supreme Court

High Court refuses to grant leave to appeal to the Supreme Court arising from the refusal to grant judicial review of the refusal of An Bord Pleanála to grant permission for a waste recovery facility, on the grounds that: (a) leave should only be granted for such an appeal if there were a point of law to be determined of exceptional public importance and if it was desirable in the public interest; (b) leave should be granted sparingly in accordance with principles set out in the judgment; (c) the applicant had failed to establish that there was a question relating to whether the Waste Framework Directive meant that 'proximity principle' did not apply to waste for recovery within national boundaries; and (d) having failed before the planning authority, An Bord Pleanála and the High Court, there was no public interest in allowing the applicant to make the same submissions before the Supreme Court.