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22.4.NPS assessment requirements NPS requirement
The ES should identify existing and proposed land uses near the project, any effects of replacing an existing development or use of the site with the proposed project or preventing a development or use on a neighbouring site from continuing. Applicants should also assess any effects of precluding a new development or use proposed in the development plan.
During any pre-application discussions with the applicant the Local Planning Authority should identify any concerns it has about the impacts of the application on land use, having regard to the development plan and relevant applications and including, where relevant, whether it agrees with any independent assessment that the land is surplus to requirements.
Applicants should seek to minimise impacts on the best and most versatile agricultural land (defined as land in grades 1, 2 and 3a of the ALC and preferably use land in areas of poorer quality (grades 3b, 4 and 5) except where this would be inconsistent with other sustainability considerations. Applicants should also identify any effects and seek to minimise impacts on soil quality taking into account any mitigation measures proposed. For developments on previously developed land, applicants should ensure that they have considered the risk posed by land contamination.
The general policies controlling development in the countryside apply with equal force in Green Belts but there is, in addition, a general presumption against inappropriate development within them. Such development should not be approved except in very special circumstances. Applicants should therefore determine whether their proposal, or any part of it, is within an established Green Belt and if it is, whether their proposal may be inappropriate development within the meaning of Green Belt policy.
An applicant may be able to demonstrate that a particular type of energy infrastructure, such as an underground pipeline, which, in Green Belt policy terms, may be considered as an “engineering operation” rather than a building, is not in the circumstances of the application inappropriate development.
NPS reference PEIR reference
EN-1 Section 5.10.5
Section 22.5 and 22.7
EN-1 Section 5.10.7
Local authorities have identified their concerns as per Table 22.1, section 22.2
EN-1 Section 5.10.8
See sections 22.6.2 and 22.6.3. See also Chapter 19 Soils, Geology and Ground Conditions.
EN-1 Section 5.10.10
No areas of Green Belt have been identified within the onshore electrical transmission works study area
EN-1 Section 5.10.12
No areas of Green Belt have been identified within the onshore electrical transmission works study area
Ensure that applicants do not site their scheme on the best and most versatile agricultural land without justification. It should give little weight to the loss of poorer quality agricultural land (in grades 3b, 4 and 5)
EN-1 Section 5.10.15
See section 22.6.2
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