Electricity Act 1989 - transmission line projects and environmental impact assessment: pre-application consultation and engagement guidance

Footnotes

1. Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission PLC and Scottish Power Transmission PLC

2. In addition, Section 57(2) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 also allows the Scottish Ministers, on granting a section 37 consent, to direct that planning permission for that development shall be deemed to be granted, subject to any conditions. Therefore, a separate planning application is not required for transmission infrastructure projects.

3. In line with the guidance set out in Section 5 of this Guidance

4. As per Section 5 of this guidance

5. As per Section 5 of this guidance

6. This will be publicly available once it has been approved by the ECU.

7. Distance of notification boundary to be identified and agreed on a case-by-case basis.

8. Priority Applications are defined as : “Strategic Transmission Infrastructure - Strategic Transmission infrastructure projects increasing system capacity or security of supply” OR “Generation connections - Projects connecting generation where the connection would be for multiple generation sites; or for single generation sites where section 36 consent or planning permission for the generating station has been granted”