Local Highway Authority Input into the NSIP Process

The County Council is a statutory consultee on all Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) proposals, where Norfolk is Host Authority. We will respond on a wide range of matters including as:

• Highways Authority
• Lead Local Flood Authority,
• Minerals and Waste Planning Authority.

We also respond on public health matters, environmental considerations as well as on the wider socio-economic implications of a proposed project.

The NSIP Highways Aims and Guidance Document (PDF, 213 KB) shows what we, as the Highways Authority, considers is necessary to support any NSIP scheme in order to ensure highway safety is maintained at all time.

This covers, for example, the need for Transport Assessments at the application stage, through to more detailed Construction Traffic Management Plans being required through the implementation of the Development Consent Order (DCO). The County Council as Highway Authority will typically be a consultee on the discharge of any planning requirement (with a highway implication) set out in a DCO. The Aims and Guidance document provides advice to both potential applicants of NSIP scale development and to the other host authorities in Norfolk.