Infrastructure: Planning

(asked on 11th February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list the proposed Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects relating to his Department that the Planning Inspectorate's Examining Authority recommended consent should be withheld from in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017, (d) 2018, (e) 2019, (f) 2020 and (g) 2021.


Answered by
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Chris Heaton-Harris
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
This question was answered on 26th February 2021

Applications for Development Consent Orders since 2015, for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects in the transport sector, where the Examining Authority has recommended withholding consent, are:

Year the Examining Authority’s Recommendation was received

Name of scheme

2015

East Midlands Gateway Rail Freight Interchange

2019

A63 Castle Street Improvement-Hull

2019

Manston Airport

2019

A303 Sparkford to Ilchester Dualling

2020

A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down

Although decisions on these applications are always made in the name of the Secretary of State, some decisions are taken by other ministers within the Department for propriety reasons and without the involvement of the Secretary of State.

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