Nationally significant infrastructure projects: advice on working with public bodies in the infrastructure planning process

Publication Year

2026

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Provides advice on working with public bodies and their involvement with the applicant and the Planning Inspectorate during the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) process. Covers: what a public body is; public bodies and the NSIP process; summary of how public bodies may be involved at each stage of the NSIP process; pre-application; Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) scoping opinion; applicant's preparation of their environmental statement; consents and authorisations; deemed consents; and harbours.

Document History

Last updated: 18 August 2026 - Updated on an initial basis to reflect some of the key changes to the Planning Act 2008 process introduced by the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025. A further detailed review of the Planning Inspectorate’s advice page collection will commence from summer 2026. This review will inform future updates to the advice page collection to fully align content with the amended legal framework. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/nationally-significant-infrastructure-projects-advice-on-working-with-public-bodies-in-the-infrastructure-planning-process and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 20 September 2024.

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