Advice to Project Design Engineers Limited

Enquiry

• From: Project Design Engineers Limited
• Date advice given: 12 October 2011
• Enquiry type: Email

Hi

I am wondering if anyone could provide me with details of the Scottish/Northern Irish and Southern Irish equivalents to the IPC (that covers Wales & Eng only).

Is there anywhere on the site that provides links or could you advise where to best look.

Any help at all would be very much appreciated.

Advice given

The regime for infrastructure planning in the Planning Act 2008 was intended to bring together multiple consent regimes into a single application process. The Act had no effect on the devolution of powers, and so where the existing regimes were a devolved matter, the pre-existing regimes remain in place.

There is therefore no equivalent body to the IPC in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Outside England and Wales, the appropriate route to consent for a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project depends upon the nature of the project and the consent regime that applies to it. For example, whilst an application for a generating station over 50 megawatts in England would be made to the IPC under the 2008 Act, a similar application in Scotland would continue to be made to the Scottish Ministers under the Electricity Act 1989.

If you have further, specific questions, you may wish to address them to the Scottish Government Built Environment Directorate at sgplanning@scotland.gsi.gov.uk or the Northern Irish Department of the Environment at enquiries@drdni.gov.uk.

Southern Ireland forms the Republic of Ireland. It is a sovereign state, with its own arrangements. You may wish to address any questions to the Irish Embassy to the United Kingdom, at 17 Grosvenor Place, London SW1X 7HR