Jurisdiction: Wales
Commencement: 3rd June 2024
Amends:
- Harbours Act 1964
- Highways Act 1980
- Electricity Act 1989
- Town and Country Planning Act 1990
- Planning (Hazardous Substances) Act 1990
- New Roads and Street Works Act 1991
- Transport and Works Act 1992
- Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004
- Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009
- Flood and Water Management Act 2010
- Planning (Wales) Act 2015
- Infrastructure Act 2015
- Housing and Planning Act 2016
- Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023
A unified consent process is in place for a wide range of significant infrastructure types (both onshore and offshore) in Wales.
The significant infrastructure project types covered by this new consenting process are listed below, with links to definitions that determine when such an infrastructure project type would be classified as ‘significant’.
- Electricity infrastructure.
- Liquified natural gas facilities.
- Gas reception facilities.
- Hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas and coal gasification.
- Open cast coal mining.
- Highways.
- Railways.
- Rail freight interchanges.
- Harbour facilities.
- Airports.
- Dams and reservoirs.
- Transfer of water resources.
- Waste water treatment plants.
- Hazardous waste facilities.
- Radioactive waste geological disposal facilities.
N.B. Only those infrastructure types above that meet the specific criteria to be classed as a ‘significant’ infrastructure project are within the scope of this Act.
Various duties apply.
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