Gas (Applications for Licences and Extensions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Development plan

10.  A development plan in respect of the activities (“the authorised activities”) which would be authorised by the licence or, as the case may be, the extension, if the application were granted, including estimates, for each year of the period required to complete the development, of:—

(a) the length(s) (in kilometres), diameter(s) and design operating pressure(s) of the pipelines to be used for the authorised activities;

(b) the number of premises which may be connected to the pipeline system;

(c) the amount of gas, in therms, expected to be conveyed, separately identifying any amount to be conveyed to domestic premises;

(d) the total revenue from the authorised activities;

(e) the total capital costs of the authorised activities, showing separately such costs in relation to procuring and laying pipe-lines, providing and installing meters, procuring and installing other operational plant and machinery, and overhead and administrative requirements (in all cases excluding finance charges);

(f) the total operating costs of the authorised activities, showing separately such costs in relation to fuel (including gas purchases), staff costs, rent and rates, development costs and insurance; and

(g) net annual cashflow,

and stating, where appropriate, the assumptions underlying the figures provided.