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Electric Cables: Environment Impact Assessment

Question for Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

UIN HL2181, tabled on 30 October 2024

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to undertake an environmental impact assessment on the proposed expansion of overhead power lines.

Answered on

13 November 2024

On 22 October 2024, together with the Scottish and Welsh Governments, we commissioned NESO to produce the first ever Strategic Spatial Energy Plan (SSEP), to support a more actively planned approach to energy infrastructure across Great Britain, including for overhead power lines. The SSEP will be subject to a Strategic Environmental Assessment and Habitats Regulation Assessment and take into account views of both rural and urban communities to ensure the impacts of infrastructure on local areas are properly considered.