Member

The proposed amendment would remove the ability to handle a request for an NSIP project to be directed into an alternative consenting route where it is the Secretary of State who proposes to carry out the development. This would require them to make a written request for a direction to themselves. This is clearly impractical and unnecessary. Noble Lords can rest assured that, if those circumstances were to arise, the Secretary of State would follow the planning propriety guidance in the same way as already happens for planning casework decisions.