The Town and Country Planning (Major Infrastructure Project Inquiries Procedure) (England) Rules 2002

Rule 2(1)

SCHEDULE

Descriptions of Major Infrastructure Project

1.  Crude-oil refineries (excluding undertakings manufacturing only lubricants from crude oil) and installation for the gasification and liquefaction of 500 tonnes or more of coal or bituminous shale per day.

2.—(a) Installations for the reprocessing of irradiated nuclear fuel.

(b) Installations designed—

(i) for the production or enrichment of nuclear fuel;

(ii) for the processing of irradiated nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive waste;

(iii) for the final disposal of irradiated nuclear fuel;

(iv) solely for the final disposal of radioactive waste; or

(v) solely for the storage (planned for more than 10 years) of irradiated nuclear fuels or radioactive waste in a different site than the production site.

3.  Integrated chemical installations, that is to say, installations for the manufacture on an industrial scale of substances using chemical conversion processes, in which several units are juxtaposed and are functionally linked to one another and which are—

(a) for the production of base organic chemicals;

(b) for the production of basic inorganic chemicals;

(c) for the production of phosphorous-, nitrogen- or potassium-based fertilizers (simple or compound fertilizers);

(d) for the production of basic plant health products and of biocides;

(e) for the production of basic pharmaceutical products using a chemical or biological process; or

(f) for the production of explosives.

4.—(a) Construction of airports with a basic runway length of 2,100 metres or more.

(b) Construction of a new runway which allows an addition to the number of occasions on which aircraft may take-off or land.

(c) Extension of any runway by more than 100 metres.

(d) Construction of a new airport terminal, or the expansion of an existing terminal, which provides additional capacity for more than 5 million passengers per annum.

(e) Construction of facilities which provide additional capacity for more than 100,000 tonnes of air cargo per annum.

(f) Construction of tramways, railways (including elevated and underground railways), suspended lines or similar lines of a particular type, used exclusively or mainly for passenger transport, where the area of the works exceeds 1 hectare.

5.—(a) Inland waterways, canalisation and flood-relief works where the area of the work exceeds 1 hectare.

(b) Ports for inland-waterway traffic which permit the passage of vessels of over 1,350 tonnes.

(c) Trading ports, piers for loading and unloading connected to land and outside ports (excluding ferry piers) which can take vessels of over 1,350 tonnes.

(d) Construction of other harbours and port installations including fishing harbours, where the area of the works exceeds 1 hectare.

6.  Waste water treatment plants with a capacity exceeding 150,000 population equivalent as defined in Article 2 point (6) of Directive 91/271/EEC(1).

7.  Extraction of petroleum and natural gas for commercial purposes where the amount extracted exceeds 500 tonnes per day in the case of petroleum and 500,000 cubic metres per day in the case of gas.

8.  Dams and other installations designed for the holding back or permanent storage of water, where a new or additional amount of water held back or stored exceeds 10 million cubic metres.

9.  Pipelines for the transport of gas, oil or chemicals where the area of the works exceeds 1 hectare or, in the case of a gas pipeline, the installation has a design operating pressure exceeding 7 bar gauge.

10.  Quarries and open-cast mines and deep mines where the production level is greater than 2 million tonnes per annum.

11.  Installations for storage of petroleum, petrochemical or chemical products with a capacity of 200,000 tonnes or more.

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O.J. No. L 135, 30.5.91, p. 40.