Advice to Central Bedfordshire Council
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- Central Bedfordshire Council
- Date advice given
- 24 January 2012
- Enquiry type
The Council is preparing package of measures to deliver various road schemes as part of the A5-M1 link. See the attached plans.
The schemes will connect to the Highways Agency Network (the M1) and I have little doubt this will necessitate an application to the Infrastructure Planning Commission. My opinion is that these schemes are likely to be caught by Sections 14 and 22(2)(b) of the Planning Act 2008.
I would like some guidance on the necessary criteria and confirmation that my view is likely to be correct and any advice you can offer to bring this matter forward. I would be grateful for your assistance.
Advice given
Further to my email yesterday, I have some information which you may find helpful. However, I should make it clear that it is for the applicant to decide whether an application is considered to be an NSIP and that applicants should seek their own legal advice on this matter. The IPC will determine at the acceptance stage whether an application is an NSIP under S.55 of the Planning Act 2008.
If the scheme is to be the subject of an application to the IPC, we would include the details of the project on the forthcoming list on the website and would request that you supply the information set out below in order that the scheme can be included on the website. For the purposes of clarification, we publish any advice we give in relation to prospective applications and you should not therefore share with us any information which is confidential. Separate information on scoping will also be required in due course. On a more general note, initial meetings are a valuable opportunity for you to introduce the scheme to us and to outline how the project will meet the requisite obligations under the terms of the 2008 Planning Act. I would be happy to arrange such a meeting. As you will be aware, there are significant steps regarding consultation that need to be met prior to the submission of any application. Preliminary Notification of a forthcoming Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project Requested information for projects to enable display on website and allocation of case team
- Project Name - (please be as clear be at this stage regarding your project name as this will be used on the website and changes later on can affect links which your customers and the general public will use to access information)
- Project Location – (please be clear about the location as a description such as “to the west of” without a distance quoted can be confusing – it is helpful if you could provide a map showing the extent of the site or the extent of a linear project))
- Grid reference of project - (please provide a 12 figure grid reference – if your project is linear please provide grid references for either end together with the midpoint reference) 4..Project description – (if your project includes a generating station please specify the intended output)
- Applicant’s name –
- Promoters contact details (telephone and email contacts and website link (these details will be placed on the IPC website and need therefore to be details you are happy to publish)
- Date of intended EIA scoping – (please specify the month in which your intended scoping request is likely to be submitted – you are asked to forward at least two weeks before a plan delineating a red line around your project area in order that consultee lists can be checked in readiness for your scoping request, if you do not do so then a delay may result)
- Estimated date of submission of scheme to IPC for consideration – (where you specify a single month the 1st of the month will be used – if you are unable to do this then the quarter in a specific year would be of assistance i.e. 1st or 2nd quarter 2012) Information requested prior to scoping: In order to prepare for scoping we ask as much notice as possible is given of intended timescales. In any event, a minimum of two weeks notice is requested in order that IPC staff can undertake the necessary preparation of information. It is important that this is done as accurately as possible and to assist this we ask that you would supply essential mapping information to enable the EIA team to prepare the necessary information, this will enable the scoping process to be attended to as efficiently as possible. This does include the provision of GIS shapefiles, further information can be given on file format and detailed requirements when you are at that stage.
I trust that this is helpful, but please feel free to contact me on the numbers below if I can be of any further assistance.
Kind regards
Kathrine Haddrell
Senior Case Manager
Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC)
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