Advice to Coventry City Council
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- From
- Coventry City Council
- Date advice given
- 10 August 2010
- Enquiry type
- Post
Coventry City Council explained the background to the Coventry to Nuneaton Rail Improvements Project, with particular reference to the proposed new stations at Coventry Ricoh Arena and Bermuda Park, and and their views on the implications for the project’s consent strategy of the Planning Act 2008. They expressed the preliminary view that the proposals did not amount to a nationally significant infrastructure project (NSIP) for the purposes of Act. They also expressed their views on some provisions of the Act.
Advice given
The IPC explained that we could not advise on whether or not specific proposals represented NSIP, and that developers should take their own legal advice on the consents likely to be required by any given proposal.
The IPC referred Coventry City Council to the 2008 Act, and also to the definition of “railway” in the Transport and Works Act 1992 and the provisions of the General Permitted Development Order 1995.
The IPC acknowledged their remarks on the intent and provisions of the Act but could not comment, and directed them to the Department for Communities and Local Government to whom their views might be better expressed.