National Priority Infrastructure Bill
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A Brief Explainer
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A few things matter a lot
Why have energy costs doubled in the last ten years? Why is it thirty years since Britain last completed a nuclear power station? Why can’t we build datacentres – even on a landfill site next to a motorway? Why can it take developers years of back and forth with local and national planners just to get permission to build?
There are many things we must fix. This bill starts with three:
Nuclear Power Stations
We need a reliable, low-carbon source of electricity which still works when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing.
Power Lines
We pay millions to wind farm owners to turn their turbines off when it’s windy – because we don’t have power lines to get electricity to where it’s needed
Data Centres
Supporting the digital backbone of Britain’s economy and the government’s stated ambitions on AI, by providing the practical path for fast-tracking approvals for much-needed compute.
The Bill
But What Does It Do?
The National Priority Infrastructure Bill combats a fundamental contributor to our growth emergency - planning and energy prices. It does this while still protecting beautiful places, the environment and ensuring development is safe. The Bill enables projects to be built at speed, namely it:
Streamlines Planning
The entire planning process is streamlined. All necessary safety restrictions and regimes remain, but otherwise bureaucratic, obstructionist or labyrinthine, expensive, uncertain processes are removed. Instead of applying to multiple agencies and authorities, developers for nuclear power plants, power lines and data centres will make a single application to the Secretary of State.
The Bill ensures processes that now take years in endless delays, are finished within a total of 6 months.
Protects and Promotes New Environmental and Local Infrastructure
The LFG Bill takes inspiration from approaches in Germany and Spain.
Projects under the Bill put aside an express amount (dependent on location and size, compared to previous projects) - for environmental and local infrastructure improvements.
Crucially this money is not to be spent simply protecting but also, as a legal duty, enhancing the environment.
Rather than building a £100m bat tunnel to mitigate a harm (that may or may not exist), money can be spent on improvements to the local environment that keep Britain biodiverse and beautiful.
Restricts Frivolous Judicial Reviews
Judicial review is a crucial check on executive power - but it can be abused to block projects, and discourage action and growth. This bill raises the bar to launch a review and limits those who have made repeated unsuccessful attempts at judicial review over a period of 5 years.
Provides Patriot Payments
Those living locally will benefit from projects with jobs, better environmental protections and local infrastructure investment - but the disruption of construction should not be ignored. The bill allows the Secretary of State to provide payments (in the form of money off electricity bills, taxes or direct payments) to those living closest to projects implemented under this bill.
Keeps the Country Beautiful
The bill frees us to build these vital projects on appropriate land, but it protects our national heritage by excluding - for example - ancient woodland and listed buildings.
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Help Get The Word Out
This bill would ensure the government could see projects started and many fully constructed - within this parliament. These are projects that otherwise take decades to navigate our uncertain, labyrinthine planning system. Our bill does so by protecting and promoting what we all value about this country - its beauty and its ecosystem - whilst ensuring Britain can be better for its people, and that we can finally start to solve our growth emergency.
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