Nationally significant infrastructure projects: advice for local authorities

Publication Year

2024

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Comprises advice on the role of the local authorities in the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) process. Covers: role of local authorities in the NSIP process; local authority's role in the Environmental Impact Assessment process; NSIPs in Wales; stages of the NSIP process and how local authorities can take part; summary of how local authorities can take part at each stage; pre-application stage; acceptance stage; pre-examination stage; examination stage; recommendation and decision stages; and post decision.

Document History

Supersedes: Advice note 1: Local impact reports. Version 2, April 2012 (PINS, 2012) and Advice note 2: Role of local authorities in the development consent process. Version 1, February 2015 (PINS, 2015). Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/nationally-significant-infrastructure-projects-advice-for-local-authorities and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 8 August 2024.

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