Government publishes response to Water NSIP Consultation
Earlier today DEFRA published their response to the Consultation on National Policy Statement for Water Resources Infrastructure – types and sizes of projects. This effectively sets the criteria to determine a proposals classifiacation as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project.
The key intended changes to the thresholds in the Planning Act 2008 are stated as:
Reservoirs
- increase in volume held back to 30 million m3 (30,000 megalitres) with a qualifying figure of 80 megalitres per day deployable output.
Transfers
- reduction in the threshold from the current 100 million m3 to developments which are expected to exceed 80 million litres per day deployable output.
Desalination
- introduction of a specific definition for desalination plants which exceed 80 million litres per day deployable output.
Effluent reuse
- no separate definition envisaged, but schemes that are considered to be nationally significant, could be directed into the NSIP regime.
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