Paragraph 3 Thresholds for extending projectsI1

Where the project under consideration is an extending project—

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b), it is immaterial whether any part of the accumulated material past project area is, or is not, in a sensitive area (or any kind of sensitive area).

In this paragraph—

• “extending project” means any project covering, or proposed to cover, land adjoining the area of one or more material past projects;

• “material past project”, in relation to a particular extending project, means a project which—

  1. (a)

     is of the same type (as specified in regulation 3(2)) as that extending project; and

  2. (b)

     was completed after the coming into operation of these Regulations; and

  3. (c)

     was completed not more than five years before the proposed date for starting the work relating to that extending project;

• “accumulated material past project area”, in relation to a particular extending project, means the total area covered by—

  1. (a)

     the material past project or, if more than one, all of them; and

  2. (b)

     every other project—

     1. (i)

        whose area adjoins the material past project, or one of them; and

     2. (ii)

        which satisfies conditions (a) to (c) in the definition of “material past project”.