The Infrastructure Planning (Business or Commercial Projects) Regulations 2013

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Infrastructure Planning (Business or Commercial Projects) Regulations 2013 and come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

(2) In these Regulations—

“industrial process” means a process for or incidental to any of the following purposes, in the course of any trade or business—

(a)

the making of any article or part of any article;

(b)

the altering, repairing, maintaining, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning, washing, packing, canning, adapting for sale, breaking up or demolition of any article; or

(c)

the getting, dressing or treatment of minerals;

“minerals” has the same meaning as in the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(1) (see section 336(1) of that Act).

Prescribed projects

2.—(1) The following description of business or commercial project (or proposed project) is prescribed for the purposes of section 35(2)(a)(ii) of the Planning Act 2008.

(2) The description referred to in paragraph (1) is a project (or proposed project) which—

(a) consists wholly or mainly of either or both of the following—

(i) the construction of buildings or facilities for use for the purposes of one or more of the matters in the Schedule to these Regulations;

(ii) the winning and working of minerals in, on or under land; and

(b) does not include—

(i) the winning or working of peat, coal, oil or gas, or

(ii) the construction of one or more dwellings.

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Communities and Local Government