Impact assessment of energy national policy statements
Publication Year
2009
Document Status
Withdrawn
Abstract
Assesses the decision to produce a suite of National Policy Statements for energy to form part of the new planning system set out in the Planning Act 2008.
Document History
Superseded by Impact assessment of energy national policy statements, part of the new consultation ending 24 January 2011. Consultation closed on 22 February 2010. To be read with Draft overarching national policy statement for energy (EN-1); Draft national policy statement for fossil fuel electricity generating infrastructure (EN-2); Draft national policy statement for renewable energy infrastructure (EN-3), Draft national policy statement for gas supply infrastructure and gas and oil pipelines (EN-4), Draft national policy statement for electricity networks infrastructure (EN-5) and Draft national policy statement for nuclear power generation (EN-6) (all DECC, 2009). Also to be read with Government response to the consultation on the draft national policy statements for energy infrastructure; and Planning for new infrastructure - consultation on revised draft national policy statements for energy infrastructure (both DECC, 2010).
Publisher Information
Department of Energy and Climate Change
The Department brings together much of the Climate Change Group, previously housed within the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), with the Energy Group from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR). From July 2016 became part of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
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