Regulation 6A Applications for planning permission and infrastructure consent: determination of carbon capture readiness and requirements to be imposed where CCR conditions are metF1F4

The relevant planning authority must not grant a relevant planning permission unless the relevant planning authority has determined whether the CCR conditions are met in relation to the combustion plant to which the planning permission F2or infrastructure consent relates.

The relevant planning authority’s determination under paragraph (1) must be made on the basis of—

If the relevant planning authority—

the relevant planning authority must include a requirement in the relevant planning permission that suitable space is set aside for the equipment necessary to capture and compress all of the CO₂ that would otherwise be emitted from the plant.

In this regulation, in the case of a planning permission F3or infrastructure consent for an extension to a combustion plant which will have the effect of increasing the rated electrical output of the plant to between 300 and 350 megawatts, references to a “combustion plant” are references to that plant as extended.