Butterworths Planning Law: A Practical Guide to National Infrastructure Projects

This expert author team at Bircham Dyson Bell gives detailed guidance on the issues which crop up in the development of major projects, such as environmental impact assessment, consultation and the management of objections. Ensure that you have the best information on this new regime whatever your involvement with national infrastructure projects.

This user-friendly guide provides:

• The background to the Act
• A clear step by step explanation of the new system
• Explanatory notes and accessible commentary on the effects of the new legislation
• Guidance on the position of projects outside the new regime
• The Planning Act 2008 in full

In 2010, a radical new regime under the Planning Act 2008 will be in place for promoters seeking permission for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects ('NSIPs'). This regime heralds a new era for NSIPs. There is a new independent decision-making body, the Infrastructure Planning Commission, which will decide applications for permission for NSIPs. It also allows the Commission to issue just one permission, a Development Consent Order, which will remove the need for a series of different powers, permissions and consents under various planning regimes.

There is currently no precedent for such a unified consents system and thus very little by way of comparison, Butterworths Planning Law: A Practical Guide to National Infrastructure Projects fills this knowledge gap. The book is an expert guide to the new regime, containing commentary, guidance and practical tips on each stage of the process – from National Policy Statements and pre-application preparations through to application, decision and implementation as well as the position of projects not part of the new regime.

Butterworths Planning Law: A Practical Guide to National Infrastructure Projects book authors, practitioners from Bircham Dyson Bell, the leading firm in the UK on this topic who regularly advise promoters and objectors to NSIPs, have drawn on their vast experience to provide a user-friendly reference source to the new regime bringing together in one place the often complex and disparate threads which comprise major projects. They take into account the issues which crop up such as Environmental Impact Assessment, consultation and the management of objections.

Butterworths Planning Law: A Practical Guide to National Infrastructure Projects provides the best information on the new regime for anyone involved with national infrastructure projects.