Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects
We help promoters, consultees and objectors in the process associated with Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects where a Development Consent Order is applied for. We are experienced in all aspects of the process including compulsory purchase which may form part of the application.
We have particular strength in renewable energy projects including waste to energy for developers/operators and for the public sector in highway schemes.
Our Real Estate, Commercial and Projects, Infrastructure and Constructions teams provide support to the Planning and Environment team for all the other legal skills that are required to implement a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project both prior to and following the grant of a Development Consent Order
Experience
- Advising on the NSIP requirements for an wind farm off the Scottish coast with an onshore component in the north east of England
- Advising on the compulsory purchase opportunities under a DCO for solar farm in Lincolnshire
- Advising on compensation for a property impacted by The Knutsford to Bowden improvement scheme (A556)”
- Advising on the extension of a number of waste to energy facilities for a major waste management company in relation to obtaining Development Consent Orders.
- Advising national retailer on the possible impact of a DCO on his retail unit including objecting to the DCO and advising up to the point that it was withdrawn.
Contacts
Related insights & events
Northern Ireland Planning and Environment update: Water
Reforms to MHCLG’s Compulsory Purchase Guidance 2026: Implications for promoters and landowners
Infrastructure Planning Blog 56: The failed judicial review of the Gatwick Airport expansion
Infrastructure Planning Blog 55: Goodbye statutory consultation and other planning infrastructure news
Infrastructure Planning Blog 54: A new draft national policy statement and a solar misapprehension
Infrastructure Planning Blog 53: Biodiversity net gain for nationally significant infrastructure projects, and more
A change in the wind: How planning reforms are powering onshore wind development
Hydrogen projects: navigating planning policy in the absence of a settled national strategy
Infrastructure Planning Blog 52: Changes to Habitats Regulations, application fees, a parliamentary petition, and a solar farm refusal
Infrastructure Planning Blog 51: A veritable fountain of infrastructure planning news
London Luton Airport expansion finally cleared for take-off?
Infrastructure Planning Blog 50: An offshore wind DCO, safeguarding transmission and the King’s Speech
Infrastructure Planning Blog 49: Sundowner and BNG on the up
Infrastructure Planning Blog 48: Legal challenge ruled totally without merit, pollution control regimes and football stadiums
Infrastructure Planning Blog 47: Overhead line changes, and enabling data centres
Infrastructure Planning Blog 46: BNG for NSIPs defined but delayed and other news
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