Policy paper

Energy National Policy Statements review: scope of Appraisal of Sustainability and approach to Habitats Regulations Assessment

These reports set out the scope of the Appraisal of Sustainability and approach to the Habitats Regulations Assessment in advance of the government’s planned review of National Policy Statements for energy infrastructure.

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 23 April 2021

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Documents

Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) methodology report

PDF, 376 KB, 30 pages

Appraisal of Sustainability scoping report

PDF, 570 KB, 50 pages

AoS scoping report: Appendix A - Review of legislation and other plans and programmes

PDF, 1.97 MB, 85 pages

AoS scoping report: appendix B - Baseline data and contextual information

PDF, 1.7 MB, 50 pages

AoS scoping report: Appendix C Part 1 - Baseline maps

PDF, 17.2 MB, 16 pages

AoS scoping report: Appendix C Part 2 - Baseline maps

PDF, 18.9 MB, 15 pages

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Details

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has initiated a review of the current 6 National Policy Statements (NPS) for energy infrastructure aiming to make any amendments by the end of 2021.

As part of a review of NPS, the Appraisal of Sustainability (AoS) and Habitat Regulations Assessment (HRA) are statutory requirements, so BEIS has requested input from statutory and relevant technical experts on the scope of the AoS and approach to the HRA by 6 May 2021.

Published 23 April 2021