Regulations 8, 10 and 10A
Textual Amendments
F1Regulations revoked (S.) (16.5.2017) by The Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/115), reg. 42(a) (with regs. 1(2), 40, 41)
1. Projects for the restructuring of rural land holdings.
2. Projects for the use of uncultivated land or semi-natural areas for intensive agricultural purposes.
3. Water management projects for agriculture, including irrigation and land drainage projects.
4. Initial afforestation and deforestation for the purposes of conversion to another type of land use.
5. Intensive livestock installations (unless included in Schedule A1).
6. Intensive fish farming.
7. Reclamation of land from the sea.
8. Quarries, open cast mining and peat extraction (unless included in Schedule A1).
9. Underground mining.
10. Extraction of minerals by fluvial or marine dredging;
11. Deep drillings, in particular—
(a)geothermal drilling;
(b)drilling for the storage of nuclear waste material;
(c)drilling for water supplies,
with the exception of drillings for investigating the stability of the soil.
12. Surface industrial installations for the extraction of coal, petroleum, natural gas and ores, as well as bituminous shale.
13. Industrial installations for the production of electricity, steam and hot water (unless included in Schedule A1).
14. Industrial installations for carrying gas, steam and hot water and transmission of electrical energy by overhead cables (unless included in Schedule A1).
15. Surface storage of natural gas.
16. Underground storage of combustible gases.
17. Surface storage of fossil fuels.
18. Industrial briquetting of coal and lignite.
19. Installations for the processing and storage of radioactive waste (unless included in Schedule A1).
20. Installations for hydroelectric energy production.
21. Installations for the harnessing of wind power for energy production (wind farms).
22. Installations for the capture of carbon dioxide streams for the purposes of geological storage pursuant to [F3Chapter 3 of Part 1 of the Energy Act 2008 and any law of any part of the United Kingdom that implemented] Directive 2009/31/EC from installations not included in Schedule A1.
Textual Amendments
F3Words in Sch. A2 para. 22 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/25), regs. 1(1), 6(11); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
23. Installations for the production of pig iron or steel (primary or secondary fusion) including continuous casting.
24. Installations for the processing of ferrous metals—
(a)hot-rolling mills;
(b)smithies with hammers;
(c)application of protective metal coats.
25. Ferrous metal foundries.
26. Installations for the smelting, including the alloyage, of non-ferrous metals, excluding precious metals, including recovered products (refining, foundry casting, etc.).
27. Installations for surface treatment of metals and plastic materials using an electrolytic or chemical process.
28. Manufacture and assembly of motor vehicles and manufacture of motor vehicle engines.
29. Shipyards.
30. Installations for the construction and repair of aircraft.
31. Manufacture of railway equipment.
32. Swaging by explosives.
33. Installations for the roasting and sintering of metallic ores.
34. Coke ovens (dry coal distillation).
35. Installations for the manufacture of cement.
36. Installations for the production of asbestos and the manufacture of asbestos-based products (unless included in Schedule A1).
37. Installations for the manufacture of glass including glass fibre.
38. Installations for smelting mineral substances including the production of mineral fibres.
39. Manufacture of ceramic products by burning, in particular roofing tiles, bricks, refractory bricks, tiles, stonewear or porcelain.
40. Treatment of intermediate products and production of chemicals.
41. Production of pesticides and pharmaceutical products, paint and varnishes, elastomers and peroxides.
42. Storage facilities for petroleum, petrochemical and chemical products.
43. Manufacture of vegetable and animal oils and fats.
44. Packing and canning of animal vegetable products.
45. Manufacture of dairy products.
46. Brewing and malting.
47. Confectionery and syrup manufacture.
48. Installations for the slaughter of animals.
49. Industrial starch manufacturing installations.
50. Fish-meal and fish-oil factories.
51. Sugar factories.
52. Industrial plants for the production of paper and board (unless included in Schedule A1).
53. Plants for the pre-treatment (operations such as washing, bleaching, mercerisation) or dyeing of fibres or textiles.
54. Plants for the tanning of hides and skins.
55. Cellulose-processing and production installations.
56. Manufacture and treatment of elastomer-based products.
57. Industrial estate development projects.
58. Urban development projects, including the construction of shopping centres and car parks, sports stadiums, leisure centres and multiplex cinemas.
59. Construction of intermodal transhipment facilities and of intermodal terminals (unless included in Schedule A1).
60. Construction of railways (unless included in Schedule A1).
61. Construction of airfields (unless included in Schedule A1).
62. Construction of roads (unless included in Schedule A1).
63. Construction of harbours and port installations including fishing harbours (unless included in Schedule A1).
64. Inland-waterway construction not included in Schedule A1, canalisation and flood-relief works.
65. Dams and other installations designed to hold water or store it on a long-term basis (unless included in Schedule A1).
66. Tramways, elevated and underground railways, suspended lines or similar lines of a particular type, used exclusively or mainly for passenger transport.
67. Oil and gas pipeline installations and pipelines for the transport of carbon dioxide streams for the purposes of geological storage (unless included in Schedule A1).
68. Installations of long-distance aqueducts.
69. Coastal work to combat erosion and maritime works capable of altering the coast through the construction of, for example, dykes, moles, jetties and other sea defence works, excluding the maintenance and reconstruction of such works.
70. Groundwater abstraction and artificial groundwater recharge schemes not included in Schedule A1.
71. Works for the transfer of water resources between river basins not included in Schedule A1.
72. Motorway service areas.
73. Permanent racing and test tracks for motorised vehicles.
74. Installations for the disposal of waste (unless included in Schedule A1).
75. Waste-water treatment plants (unless included in Schedule A1).
76. Sludge-deposition sites.
77. Storage of scrap iron, including scrap vehicles.
78. Test benches for engines, turbines or reactors.
79. Installations for the manufacture of artificial mineral fibres.
80. Installations for the recovery or destruction of explosive substances.
81. Knackers’ yards.
82. Ski-runs, ski-lifts and cable-cars, and associated developments.
83. Marinas.
84. Holiday villages and hotel complexes outside urban areas and associated developments.
85. Theme parks.
86. Permanent camp sites and caravan sites.
87. Golf courses and associated developments.
88. Any change to or extension of development of a description listed in Schedule A1 (other than a change or extension falling within paragraph 31 of that Schedule) where that development is already authorised, executed or in the process of being executed.
89. Any change to or extension of development of a description listed in paragraphs 1 to 87 of this Schedule where that development is already authorised, executed or in the process of being executed.
90. Development of a description mentioned in Schedule A1 undertaken exclusively or mainly for the development and testing of new methods or products and not used for more than two years.]]