The Offshore Electricity Development (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

SCHEDULE 2 Descriptions of Development

1.  The carrying out of development to provide any of the following—

(a) a generating station, the construction of which (or the operation of which) will require an Article 39 consent but which is not a development falling within Schedule 1;

(b) the extension of any generating station, where such extension will require an Article 39 consent;

(c) an electric line installed above ground with a voltage of 33 kilovolts or more, the installation of which (or the keeping installed of which) will require an Article 40 consent but which is not a development falling within Schedule 1; or

(d) an electric line installed above ground in a sensitive area, the installation of which (or the keeping installed of which) will require an Article 40 consent but which is not a development falling within either Schedule 1 or sub-paragraph (c).

2.  For the purposes of this Schedule “sensitive areas” mean any of the following—

(a) a National Park, that is to say, an area so designated under Article 12(1) of the Nature Conservation and Amenity Lands (Northern Ireland) Order 1985(1);

(b) an area of outstanding natural beauty, that is to say, an area so designated under Article 14(1) of the Nature Conservation and Amenity Lands (Northern Ireland) Order 1985;

(c) an area of land declared to be a national nature reserve under Article 18 of the Nature Conservation and Amenity Lands (Northern Ireland) Order 1985;

(d) an area designated by order as a marine nature reserve under Article 20 of the Nature Conservation and Amenity Lands (Northern Ireland) Order 1985;

(e) an area of specific scientific interest, that is to say, land so declared under Article 24 of the Nature Conservation and Amenity Lands (Northern Ireland) Order 1985;

(f) a property appearing on the World Heritage List kept under Article 11(2) of the 1972 UNESCO Convention for the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage(2);

(g) a scheduled monument within the meaning of the Historic Monuments and Archaeological Objects (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(3);

(h) a European site within the meaning of regulation 9 of the Conservation (Natural Habitats, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995(4).

(1)

S.I. 1985/170 (N.I. 1) as amended by S.I. 1989/492 (N.I. 3)

(2)

SEE Command Paper 9424

(3)

S.I. 1995/1625 (N.I. 9)

(4)

S.R. 1995 No. 380