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Infrastructure: Road Traffic

Asked by Ben Obese-JectyConservativeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled Answered 13 March 2025UIN 35840

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether planning approval for nationally significant infrastructure projects is dependent upon having a construction traffic management plan.

Answered by Michael Shanks

As per The Infrastructure Planning (Applications: Prescribed Forms and Procedure) Regulations 2009, Regulations 5(2)(a), (k), and (o), all applicants seeking development consent for nationally significant infrastructure projects must include a plan identifying any new or altered means of access, stopping up of streets or roads or any diversions, extinguishments or creation of rights of way or public rights of navigation, means of vehicular and pedestrian access, and any car parking to be provided. It is not mandated that this must be called a ‘construction traffic management plan’ but these plans are often labelled as such.

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