# Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000, Paragraph 2: Thresholds

Extent: N.I.

Subject to paragraph 3, for the purposes of regulation 3(3), the threshold for any project of a type specified in an entry in Column 1 in the Table is the area (if any) specified in the corresponding entry in Column 2 or 3 of the Table, whichever is appropriate to the land covered, or proposed to be covered, by that project.
TABLE
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Type of project
Threshold where any part of the land is in a sensitive area
Threshold where no part of the land is in a sensitive area
Afforestation
2 hectares where the sensitive area is a National Park or an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. No threshold in the case of other sensitive areas.
5 hectares
Deforestation
0.5 hectares where the sensitive area is a National Park or an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. No threshold in the case of other sensitive areas.
1 hectare
Forest road works
No threshold
1 hectare
Forest quarry works
No threshold
1 hectare

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/84/schedule/2/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/schedule-2/paragraph-2
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