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Infrastructure (Wales) Bill
- This consultation has completed. It ran from Friday, 23 June 2023 to Friday, 11 August 2023
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Response to the consultation
Evidence submitted in response to this Consultation
- Infrastructure 01 - Individual PDF 216 KB
- Infrastructure 02 - NICW and the FGC PDF 173 KB
- Infrastructure 03 - Federation of Small Business Wales PDF 121 KB
- Infrastructure 04 - National Trust Cymru PDF 216 KB
- Infrastructure 05 - RTPI Cymru PDF 157 KB
- Infrastructure 06 - Isle of Anglesey County Council PDF 69 KB
- Infrastructure 07 - Newport City Council PDF 65 KB
- Infrastructure 08 - Individual PDF 63 KB
- Infrastructure 09 - Cwmni Egino PDF 53 KB
- Infrastructure 10 - Bat Conservation Trust PDF 50 KB
- Infrastructure 11 - SP Energy Networks PDF 109 KB
- Infrastructure 12 - MaresConnect Limited PDF 48 KB
- Infrastructure 13 - Public Health Wales PDF 54 KB
- Infrastructure 14 - Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority PDF 357 KB
- Infrastructure 15 - Association for Consultancy and Engineering Wales PDF 430 KB
- Infrastructure 16 - Marine Energy Wales PDF 189 KB
- Infrastructure 17 - Llanarthne and Area Community Pylon Group PDF 107 KB
- Infrastructure 18 - The Crown Estate PDF 65 KB
- Infrastructure 19 - ScottishPower Renewables PDF 97 KB
- Infrastructure 20 - Design Commission for Wales PDF 49 KB
- Infrastructure 21 - Network Rail PDF 61 KB
- Infrastructure 22 - NFU Cymru PDF 83 KB
- Infrastructure 23 - The Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (CAAV) PDF 62 KB
- Infrastructure 24 - Marine Conservation Society PDF 65 KB
- Infrastructure 25 - Wales & West Utilities PDF 68 KB
- Infrastructure 26 - RWE Renewables PDF 92 KB
- Infrastructure 27 - RSPB Cymru PDF 73 KB
- Infrastructure 28 - Lightsource bp PDF 70 KB
- Infrastructure 29 - National Grid Electricity Distribution PDF 68 KB
- Infrastructure 30 - Ashfords LLP PDF 69 KB
- Infrastructure 31 - EDF PDF 502 KB
- Infrastructure 32 - CPRW PDF 251 KB
- Infrastructure 33 - Natural Resources Wales PDF 110 KB
- Infrastructure 34 - Individual PDF 133 KB
- Infrastructure 35 - Hannah Hickman UWE PDF 123 KB
- Infrastructure 36 - Bute Energy PDF 364 KB
- Infrastructure 37 - Pembrokeshire County Council PDF 130 KB
- Infrastructure 38 - RenewableUK Cymru PDF 142 KB
- Infrastructure 39 - Statkraft UK PDF 65 KB
- Infrastructure 40 - Welsh Water PDF 92 KB
- Infrastructure 41 - Solar Energy UK PDF 95 KB
- Infrastructure 42 - Ynni Glân PDF 50 KB
- Infrastructure 43 - Associated British Ports PDF 72 KB
- Infrastructure 44 - Wildlife Trusts Wales PDF 62 KB
- Infrastructure 45 - Planning Aid Wales PDF 171 KB
- Infrastructure 46 - Kelvin MacDonald PDF 97 KB
- Infrastructure 47 - Transport for Wales PDF 172 KB
- Infrastructure 48 - Welsh Local Government Association PDF 70 KB
- Infrastructure 49 - National Infrastructure Planning Association PDF 186 KB
Purpose of the consultation
Purpose of the consultation
The Infrastructure (Wales) Bill (“the Bill”) has been referred to the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee (“the Committee”) for Stage 1 scrutiny of the general principles of the Bill.
According to the Welsh Government, the overarching aim of the Bill is to create a unified consenting process for infrastructure projects in Wales detaching consenting from current, largely outdated and inadequate arrangements to a new form of consent, which contains the full range of authorisations required to enable development. The Bill proposes:
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>>> to establish a unified infrastructure consenting process for specified types of major infrastructure both on and offshore (up to territorial seaward boundary), including energy, transport, waste, water and gas projects. The new form of consent will be known as an “infrastructure consent” (“IC”) and will be issued in relation to projects which are prescribed as a “Significant Infrastructure Project” (“SIP”);
>>> to provide that developers must obtain an IC for a SIP. The IC is intended to contain the full range of authorisations required to enable the development to be implemented; and
>>> therefore replace, either fully or partially, a number of existing statutory regimes for the consenting of infrastructure projects and rationalise the number of authorisations required to construct and operate such development into a single consent.
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Further details about the Bill can be found in its accompanying Explanatory Memorandum (PDF 1.5MB)
To help inform its scrutiny, the Committee is seeking views on:
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>>> The general principles of the Bill and the need for legislation to deliver the stated policy intention;
>>> The Bill’s provisions, including whether they are workable and will deliver the stated policy intention:
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*** Significant infrastructure projects (Part 1 sections 1 to 18)
*** Requirement for infrastructure consent (Part 2 sections 19 to 26)
*** Applying for infrastructure consent (Part 3 sections 27 to 38)
*** Examining applications (Part 4 sections 39 to 51)
*** Deciding applications for infrastructure consent (Part 5 sections 52 to 59)
*** Infrastructure consent orders (Part 6 sections 60 to 99)
*** Enforcement (Part 7 sections 100 to 120)
*** Supplementary functions (Part 8 sections 121 to 129)
*** General provisions (Part 9 sections 130 to 144)
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>>> Any potential barriers to the implementation of the Bill’s provisions and whether the Bill takes account of them;
>>> The appropriateness of the powers in the Bill for Welsh Ministers to make subordinate legislation (set out in Chapter 5 of Part 1 of the Explanatory Memorandum).
>>> Whether there are any unintended consequences arising from the Bill; and
>>> The financial implications of the Bill (as set out in Part 2 of the Explanatory Memorandum).
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Submitting your views
The Committee would like to invite you to submit written evidence to assist in its consideration of the Bill.
We would like you to submit your views by completing this online form.
A downloadable template is available for you to draft your response before submitting it, if you wish. However, please do not submit your response on that template via email. All responses should be submitted via the online form.
The closing date for submission to this consultation is 11 August 2023.
Please refer to the Bill page for further details and up-to-date information on the Bill.
Contact details
Should you wish to speak to someone regarding this consultation, please use the below contact details:
Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Welsh Parliament
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff
CF99 1SN
Email: SeneddClimate@senedd.wales
Telephone: 0300 200 6565