According to information received by , an appeal was filed with the Hämeenlinna Administrative Court today, Tuesday.
Toyota’s plans to build a rally team in the Majajärvi area on the border of Jyväskylä and Lauka have taken a turn for the worse.
The partial master plan and site plan approved by the Jyväskylä City Council in December were appealed to the Hämeenlinna Administrative Court on Tuesday.
The partial general plan concerns the test track planned for the area by Toyota’s rally team, i.e. the Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team, and the site plan for the technology center. The rally team would develop its racing cars on the test track, and the team’s operations would be run in the technology center.
The premises of the Toyota rally team are currently located in Jyskä, Jyväskylä, but the team plans to move to Majajärvi.
According to the complaint, the formulas must be rejected because the industry spoils the area’s environment. The complaint refers, for example, to the fact that the area is a groundwater area, and there are protected plants and animals, such as flying squirrels.
In addition, the complaint claims that the participants were not given enough opportunities to influence the matter, and the city would have favored the company in the planning process.
has seen the complaint addressed to the Administrative Court, but has not yet been able to confirm information about the receipt of the complaint from the Hämeenlinna Administrative Court.
The project has been complained about before
Complaints have also been made about the project in the past. The test track’s environmental permit is currently stuck in the administrative court of Vaasa.
According to the complaint about the environmental permit, the decision does not comply with the European Union’s environmental protection law, according to which the location of the activity must be taken into account.
The city’s environmental protection manager estimated last summer that the processing of the complaint could delay the project by even more than a year.