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Pre-app planning advice

Large scale energy, transmission and infrastructure developments pre-application advice

We offer pre-application advice for large scale energy, transmission, and infrastructure projects.

These projects consist of national and major development under the Planning Acts, and development proposals under the Electricity Acts (section 36 and 37 applications) for generating stations and transmission infrastructure.

Proposals under this category usually consist of large scale renewable and low carbon energy and electricity grid infrastructure:

  • Windfarms over 50MW
  • Solar farms over 50MW
  • Hydrogen development
  • Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS)
  • Electricity grid infrastructure over 132KV
  • Electricity storage and grid stability infrastructure over 50MW
  • Onshore infrastructure for offshore wind (underground cabling or substations)
  • Offshore windfarm connections and landfall

There is a possibility we may be asked to provide information about pre-application advice inquiries, when FOI and EI requests are made.

Fee

View fees for discretionary services to find out about cost for requesting pre-application advice for large developments.

You will be asked to pay the fee after requesting pre-application advice. On receipt of your request you will get a reference number, which you will need to make a payment. There are a few ways you can pay:

Request pre-application advice

View the pre-application advice guidance for energy, transmission and infrastructure developments (PDF 205KB), to find out what you need to submit and what service we will provide.

You can request pre-application advice for these developments by completing our pre-application advice request form: energy, transmission, infrastructure (PDF 150KB) and sending it to our correspondence address.

What happens next

After we get your request for advice, we can give you an estimated date by which you can expect a response.