Planning Act Blog 161: Infrastructure Planning Commission has 50 Projects on its Books as Highways Slip

This is entry number 161, first published on 7 September 2010, of a blog on the implementation of the Planning Act 2008. Click here for a link to the whole blog. If you would like to be notified when the blog is updated, with links sent by email, click here.

Today's entry reports on the IPC reaching a milestone of 50 projects that have been notified to it. The Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) is the body that is charged with examining, and potentially deciding, applications for nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs), until it is replaced by the Major Infrastructure Projects Unit in April 2012. Applications for energy and transport projects above a certain size have had to be made to the IPC since 1 March, but to date only two such applications have been made, both in early August, only one of which has been accepted for examination. Nevertheless, given the amount of pre-application work that promoters need to do that will involve the IPC, it has been maintaining a databse of...