The Developments of National Significance (Specified Criteria and Prescribed Secondary Consents) (Wales) Regulations 2016

Developments of national significance: general

3.—(1) Development is of national significance for the purposes of section 62D(3) of the 1990 Act if it consists of any of the following—

(a) the construction, extension or alteration of a generating station that generates electricity;

(b) development relating to underground gas storage facilities;

(c) the construction or alteration of an LNG facility;

(d) the construction or alteration of a gas reception facility;

(e) airport-related development;

(f) the construction or alteration of a railway;

(g) the construction or alteration of a rail freight interchange;

(h) the construction or alteration of a dam or reservoir;

(i) development relating to the transfer of water resources;

(j) the construction or alteration of a waste water treatment plant or of infrastructure for the transfer or storage of waste water;

(k) the construction or alteration of a hazardous waste facility.

(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to paragraphs (3) and (4).

(3) Development is not of national significance for the purposes of section 62D(3) of the 1990 Act if it is permitted by virtue of article 3 of, and Schedule 2 to, the 1995 Order(1).

(4) Paragraph (1) is subject to regulations 4 to 14.

(1)

Article 3 was amended by: regulations 34(1) and 35(3) and (4) of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/293); regulation 15(3) of the Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1793) and section 76 of the Utilities Act 2000 (c. 27). There are amendments to Schedule 2 not relevant to these Regulations.