Wind farm expansion permitted despite absence of site-specific conservation objectives

High Court, in planning proceedings in which the Applicants challenged a decision by the First Respondent to grant the Notice party permission to amend its plan to build a windfarm by granting permission for the respondent to increase the height of the wind turbines, elects not to refer any questions of EU law to the Court of Justice of the European Union, despite the Applicants' suggestion that it do so; and the court further refuses the claim for certiorari and makes orders in terms of the declaration to that the State Respondents had failed in their duty, after this point was conceded by the Respondents, and the Applicants elected not to pursue the claim for mandamus in light of this concession.