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ARTICLE · 25 JANUARY 2012

Planning Act Regime Goes International

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This is entry number 313, published on 20 January 2012, of a blog on the Planning Act 2008 infrastructure planning and authorisation regime.

United KingdomGovernment, Public Sector
Angus Walker
Angus Walker

This is entry number 313, published on 20 January 2012, of a blog on the Planning Act 2008 infrastructure planning and authorisation regime. Click here for a link to the whole blog. If you would like to be notified when the blog is updated, with links sent by email, click here.

Today's entry reports on the influence of the Planning Act regime on Europe and vice versa.

Consulting Europe

The Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) has published a notice that one of the applications it has recently accepted might have environmental effects on other EU countries. It considers that the proposed Galloper wind farm off the Suffolk coast might affect France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark.

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