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ANTI-ARMS campaigners are taking on a legal challenge against development works at a nuclear weapons facility in West Suffolk.
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) has written to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and West Suffolk Council over their failure to assess the environmental impact of potentially facilitating the weapons for the US Air Force (USAF) at RAF Lakenheath.
It has called on the MoD to halt development works while the necessary screening is carried out.
CND general secretary Kate Hudson said: “The USAF has ploughed ahead with construction at the airbase by purportedly relying on planning rights that assume that the development won’t have significant environmental effects.
“But in doing that they’ve completely ignored the risks that stationing nuclear weapons would entail and therefore might arguably be operating unlawfully in breach of planning control.”
Representing the group, solicitor Ricardo Gama at law firm Leigh Day, said: “CND wants to make sure that the development at RAF Lakenheath, and the wider question of whether nuclear weapons should be stationed on British soil, if that is what the USAF is planning, doesn’t slip under the radar without proper public scrutiny.”
