Today's entry reports on the first general extension to
categories of nationally significant infrastructure project.
After yesterday's entry on the Silvertown Tunnel, now it is
the turn of the Thames Tunnel to become an official nationally
significant infrastructure project (NSIP), but by a different
route. In fact the Thames Tunnel became an NSIP first, but
the statutory instrument giving effect to the change has only just
been published. You wait ages for a non-NSIP to become an
NSIP and then two come along at once.
Rather than declare that that specific project should be treated
as an NSIP as happened this week with the proposed Silvertown
Tunnel in east London, this time the list of categories of project
that are NSIPs has been extended in general, specifically aimed at
the Thames Tunnel, but it will catch any other projects of that
type above the size threshold.
