Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Act 2005

Infrastructure projects

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32(1)Industrial estate development projects.

(2)Urban development projects, including the construction of shopping centres and car parks.

(3)Construction of railways and intermodal transshipment facilities, and of intermodal terminals.

(4)Construction of airfields.

(5)Construction of roads, harbours and port installations (including fishing harbours).

(6)Inland-waterway construction, canalization and flood-relief works.

(7)Dams and other installations designed to hold water or store it on a long-term basis.

(8)Tramways, elevated and underground railways, suspended lines or similar lines of a particular type, used exclusively or mainly for passenger transport.

(9)Oil and gas pipeline installations.

(10)Installations of long-distance aqueducts.

(11)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.

(12)Groundwater abstraction and artificial groundwater recharge schemes.

(13)Works for the transfer of water resources between river basins.

(14)Motorway service areas.