Receiving planning permission for a major development in the
nuclear industry in just over twelve months is no small feat. Major
planning applications can attract wide public interest and it's
not uncommon for objections to be raised to a local authority
causing a major administrative headache. In a recent article titled
"Paving the Way," Carl Beck MRICS, Planning Applications
Manager at the Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DSRL), discusses a
project that has been described as an "exemplar" by the
RICS Land Journal.
At Zyda Law, we've been working with DSRL and the Highland
Council to achieve this success. Our work with DSRL is
ground-breaking. In 2013, we secured planning permission for Phase
2 of DSRL's 35-year decommissioning programme, which includes
removing intermediate level radioactive waste from Dounreay's
'shaft and silo' and changing the use of an existing waste
facility so this waste can be stored there instead, until the
construction of a national
