The Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017

10.  Infrastructure projects U.K.

(a) industrial estate development projects;

(b) urban development projects, including the construction of shopping centres and car parks, sports stadiums, leisure centres and multiplex cinemas;

(c) construction of intermodal transshipment facilities and of intermodal terminals (unless included in Schedule 1to these Regulations);

(d) construction of railways (unless included in Schedule 1 to these Regulations);

(e) construction of airfields (unless included in Schedule 1 to these Regulations);

(f) construction of roads (unless included in Schedule 1 to these Regulations);

(g) construction of harbours and port installations including fishing harbours (unless included in Schedule 1 to these Regulations);

(h) inland-waterway construction not included in Schedule 1 to these Regulations, canalisation and flood-relief works;

(i) dams and other installations designed to hold water or store it on a long-term basis (unless included in Schedule 1 to these Regulations);

(j) tramways, elevated and underground railways, suspended lines or similar lines of a particular type, used exclusively or mainly for passenger transport;

(k) oil and gas pipeline installations [F1 and pipelines for the transport of carbon dioxide streams for the purposes of geological storage] (unless included in Schedule 1 to these Regulations);

(l) installations of long-distance aqueducts;

(m) coastal work to combat erosion and maritime works capable of altering the coast through the construction, for example, of dykes, moles, jetties and other sea defence works, excluding the maintenance and reconstruction of such works;

(n) groundwater abstraction and artificial groundwater recharge schemes not included in Schedule 1 to these Regulations;

(o) works for the transfer of water resources between river basins not included in Schedule 1 to these Regulations;

(p) motorway service areas.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 2 para. 10(k) inserted (1.10.2018) by The Town and Country Planning and Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/695), regs. 1, 6(8)