Three of the UK’s most senior judges have upheld planning permission for a single wind turbine near Pensilva in Cornwall.

Truro-based REG Windpower’s 1.3MW project at High Down, Redland was originally approved in September 2009.

And now three Supreme Court judges have refused to allow objectors any further opportunity to delay the project.

Lords Hope, Brown and Wilson ruled that the objector had no grounds to further challenge previous decisions in favour of the scheme.

They also ruled that the objector should pay other parties’ legal costs.

Matt Partridge, Development Director at REG Windpower, said: “It is extremely important that the UK generates as much safe, clean, renewable energy as we possibly can. Wind energy has a key role in reducing the UK’s future reliance on expensive fossil fuel imports – imports that have contributed the lion’s share of recent energy bill increases – so we are extremely pleased that we can finally proceed with this project.”

The ruling follows a Court of Appeal judgment in July 2011 which reversed a High Court decision quashing the original planning permission.

The site at High Down will consist of a single turbine measuring no more than 80m to the tip of the blade.