Today's entry reports on concern at the lack of National
Policy Statements.
At a National Infrastructure Planning Association (NIPA) Council
meeting on Monday, considerable concern was expressed about the
stalling of the programme of National Policy Statements
(NPSs). No activity has taken place on the NPS front since
February 2012, when the Waste Water NPS was finalised
('designated'), despite only eight out of the expected
twelve being in place. I have been presenting the latest
state of play on NPSs and nationally significant infrastructure
projects to NIPA every three months and haven't needed to
change my NPS slide for four presentations.
Current situation
While DECC can be smug that theirs are all in place, the
Hazardous Waste NPS has been languishing in draft since July 2011,
and there is no sign at all of the Water Supply NPS, the National
Networks (road and rail) NPS or the Airports NPS.
