The Town and Country Planning (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1988

Regulation 2(1)

SCHEDULE 1 DESCRIPTIONS OF DEVELOPMENT

(1)  The carrying out of building or other operations, or the change of use of buildings or other land (where a material change) to provide any of the following—

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

2. A thermal power station or other combustion installation with a heat output of 300 megawatts or more, other than a nuclear power station or other nuclear reactor.

3. An installation designed solely for the permanent storage or final disposal of radioactive waste.

4. An integrated works for the initial melting of cast-iron and steel.

5. An installation for the extraction of asbestos or for the processing and transformation of asbestos or products containing asbestos:—

(a) where the installation produces asbestos-cement products, with an annual production of more than 20,000 tonnes of finished products; or

(b) where the installation produces friction material, with an annual production of more than 50 tonnes of finished products; or

(c) in other cases, where the installation will utilise more than 200 tonnes of asbestos per year.

6. An integrated chemical installation, that is to say, an industrial installation or group of installations where two or more linked chemical or physical processes are employed for the manufacture of olefins from petroleum products, or of sulphuric acid, nitric acid, hydrofluoric acid, chlorine or fluorine.

7. A special road; a line for long-distance railway traffic; or an aerodrome with a basic runway length of 2,100m or more.

8. A trading port, an inland waterway which permits the passage of vessels of over 1,350 tonnes or a port for inland waterway traffic capable of handling such vessels.

9. A waste-disposal installation for the incineration or chemical treatment of special waste.

(2)  The carrying out of operations whereby land is filled with special waste, or the change of use of land (where a material change) to use for the deposit of such waste.