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C1Pt. 6: power to amend conferred (24.1.2022) by Environment Act 2021 (c. 30), ss. 113, 147(3) (with s. 144); S.I. 2022/48, reg. 2(p)
C2Pt. 6 power to disapply or modify conferred (26.12.2023) by Energy Act 2023 (c. 52), ss. 293(4)(5), 334(3)(j) (with s. 293(6))
87.—(1) The assessment provisions apply in relation to any plan or project—
(a)by the appropriate authority or a strategic highways company to construct a new highway or to improve, within the meaning of the Highways Act 1980 M1, an existing highway; or
(b)by a local highway authority to carry out within the boundaries of a road any works required for the improvement of the road.
(2) The review provisions apply to any such plan or project as is mentioned in paragraph (1) unless—
(a)the works were completed before 30th October 1994; or
(b)the works have been completed before the site became a European site or a European offshore marine site.
(3) In paragraph (1)(a) “strategic highways company” means a company for the time being appointed under Part 1 of the Infrastructure Act 2015 M2.
88.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the assessment provisions apply to section 3(10) of the Cycle Tracks Act 1984.
(2) Regulation 64 (Considerations of overriding public interest) does not apply to section 3(10) of that Act.
(3) Section 3(10) of that Act is not to be taken to deem planning permission to be granted for development which—
(a)is likely to have a significant effect on a European site (either alone or in combination with other plans or projects), and
(b)is not directly connected with or necessary to the management of the site,
whether or not the development authorised by the permission has been begun, unless the competent authority has agreed to the plan or project in accordance with the assessment provisions.]
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