Overarching national policy statement for energy (EN-1)
National Policy Statement EN-1
Document Status
Withdrawn, Document not available for download
Supplement
Sustainability, Environment, Development & Planning
Series
National Policy Statement
Abstract
Sets out the Government’s policy for delivery of major energy infrastructure. Used with other NPSs i.e. fossil fuel electricity generation (EN-2); renewable electricity generation (both onshore and offshore) (EN-3); gas supply infrastructure and gas and oil pipelines (EN-4); the electricity transmission and distribution network (EN-5); and, nuclear electricity generation (EN-6), by the Infrastructure Planning Commission when it makes decisions on applications for development consent for nationally significant energy infrastructure.
History
Superseded by November 2023 edition. July 2011 edition. Must be read with the following documents: EN-2, EN-3, EN-4, EN-5, EN-6 Volume 1 and EN-6 Volume 2.
ISBN
9780108510779
Subjects
- Planning and development
- Other planning disciplines
- Environmental planning/land
- Climate change
- Power supply/energy
Publisher History
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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