Paragraph 4 Utilities and services

Development comprised in or relating to any of the following kinds of work—

(a)

the following types of infrastructure for producing and conveying electricity—

(i)

solar panels, with inverters and other associated infrastructure and apparatus;

(ii)

generating units fuelled by diesel or gas;

(iii)

battery energy storage systems;

(iv)

substations and other electric lines and plant comprised in—

(aa)

a transmission system, or

(bb)

a distribution system,

each as defined in section 4(4) of the Electricity Act 1989^f1;

(b)

pipe-line systems, as defined in section 5(10) of the Gas Act 1986^f2;

(c)

infrastructure for producing and conveying energy in other forms, including—

(i)

air source and ground source heat pumps;

(ii)

electric and gas boilers;

(iii)

thermal storage units and electric chillers;

(iv)

heat networks, as defined in section 216(2) of the Energy Act 2023^f3;

(d)

potable and non-potable water infrastructure and surface and foul waste water infrastructure, including—

(i)

pipes, mains, drains, sewers, outfalls and culverts;

(ii)

drainage and attenuation infrastructure, including swales, channels, lakes, lagoons, ponds, tanks and other storage facilities, and watercourses;

(iii)

pumping stations and treatment or processing facilities;

(e)

facilities, infrastructure, equipment and apparatus to enable communications with and within the ERC and other authorised works, including between staff members, including telecommunications and other infrastructure;

(f)

other buildings or structures associated with the provision of utility services, including those that—

(i)

accommodate, above or below ground, metering and other plant, equipment, machinery, apparatus or infrastructure associated with the operation of such services, or

(ii)

support the provision, operation or maintenance of such services and infrastructure, including service yards, maintenance facilities, welfare facilities, water storage, and waste storage, sorting and collection facilities.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1989 c. 29; section 4(4) was amended by the Energy Act 2004 (c. 20), section 135(4) and the Utilities Act 2000 (c. 27), section 28(3)(a). There are other amending instruments but none is relevant.
f2: 1986 c. 44; section 5(10) was amended by section 149(3) of the Energy Act 2004 (c. 20).
f3: 2023 c. 52.