Advice to Jones Lang LaSalle

Enquiry

• From: Jones Lang LaSalle
• Date advice given: 17 November 2011
• Enquiry type: Phone

The caller sought clarification on the timescales and transitional arrangements involved with the IPC’s integration to the Planning Inspectorate.

Advice given

In April 2012 the IPC will be integrated with the Planning Inspectorate. In the new organisation, there will be a National Infrastructure Directorate. Under the Localism Act 2011, the DCO application process remains mostly unchanged; the main difference being that decision powers will be transferred to the Secretary of State.

The IPC and Planning Inspectorate are working closely to ensure that there will be a seamless transfer to the new arrangements. How schemes already with the IPC are to be handled will be subject to direction by the Secretary of State. We understand that CLG are to issue a statement regarding transitional arrangements imminently.

The caller was directed to sections 128 through 142 of the Localism Act for the provisions relating to Nationally Significant Infrastructure and the abolition of the IPC.