Just over a year ago, the municipal council in Växjö adopted a detailed plan for the property in Räppe where a new hospital is planned. Residents in the area and the Nature Conservation Association have had objections to the detailed plan.
The Nature Conservation Society believes that the construction means an increased climate impact and threatens everyday nature and valuable deciduous trees and animals, such as bats and hazel mice.
In addition, the complainants believe that the construction will violate the beach protection.
The beach protection can be cancelled
However, the judgment from the Land and Environmental Court that came on Thursday rejects the appeal. In the justification, it is written that there are indeed some complications regarding the beach protection, but that the beach protection can be canceled with legal support when “a new hospital constitutes an urgent public interest”.
The Land and Environmental Court does not consider that the detailed plan contravenes any legal rule stated by the appellant.
– The area in Räppe, with, among other things, proximity to Bergkvara farm and Helige å, and the special needs of the hospital place a number of different demands on the detailed plan. The Land and Environmental Court has therefore had several public and individual interests to take into account in the examination. The court’s assessment means that the detailed plan is fixed, says councilor Magnus Hansson, who presided over the case, in a press release from the Land and Environmental Court.
Jan-Olof Olofsson is the spokesperson for the complainants.
– I haven’t read the verdict yet, but we will appeal to the Land and Environment Court, we have already decided that, he says to SVT.