At the very start of the Supreme Court’s judgment in R (Friends of the Earth Ltd) v Heathrow Airport Ltd,1¹ Lords Hodge and Sales emphasised that the case ‘concerns the framework which will govern an application for the grant of development consent for the construction of a third runway at Heathrow Airport.’2² Central to that perspective on the case was that the Airports National Policy Statement (‘ANPS’) under challenge is only one part of that framework; as the Supreme Court noted:

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地球之友：对规划法的影响

在一开始，最高法院在判决中R（地球有限公司之友）诉希思罗机场有限公司，1 ¹上议院霍奇和销售强调，此案的关注，这将执政发展给予同意的为应用程序的框架在希思罗机场建造第三条跑道。'2 ²该案的观点的核心是受到挑战的机场国家政策声明 ('ANPS') 只是该框架的一部分；正如最高法院指出的那样：