Infrastructure: Planning
(asked on 27th May 2015) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will take steps to repeal the Infrastructure Planning Standing Order.
This question was answered on 3rd June 2015
My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State does not plan to repeal the Infrastructure Planning (Radioactive Waste Geological Disposal Facilities) Order 2015, which brings development of geological disposal facilities, and the deep boreholes required to assess potential sites for these facilities, within the statutory definition of Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects in the Planning Act 2008.
The Government believes that the Planning Act 2008 represents the most appropriate planning regime for infrastructure of this kind.