Appendix 1: Infrastructure Planning Commission
Chair: Key responsibilities
The Chair shall initially:
- Participate in the recruitment of
the other Commissioners (including Deputy Chairs) and the IPC's
Chief Executive and ensure the right ethos and approach for the
new organisation.
- Working closely with the new CEO and
senior management team, ensure that necessary preparations are
made—including producing guidance for applicants—to
enable the IPC to function effectively from the date it begins
operation.
- Support the CEO and other senior executives,
in establishing internal structures as necessary for the appropriate
corporate governance of a public body.
The Chair will be responsible for:
- Ensuring that the IPC effectively,
and to the highest standards of probity, carries out its key tasks
of managing the development consent process for nationally significant
infrastructure projects and taking decisions on nationally significant
infrastructure cases, in line with the National Policy Statements.
- Actively promoting the principles
of sustainable development both in the set up of the organisation
and in the decisions it will be making.
- Overseeing around 45 major cases a
year (plus a larger number of less complex cases) consideration
of which will need to be carried out to statutory time limits.
This will involve:
- deciding whether a case should be
handled by a panel or by a single commissioner, and deciding,
for any particular case, whether and who to appoint as an assessor
to provide specialist or technical advice;
- chairing the IPC Council which will
take the final decision in Single Commissioner cases; and
- appearing before Parliament and in
the courts as necessary to explain (and defend) particular aspects
of decisions.
- The Chair need not necessarily hear
IPC cases personally although he or she may choose to do so.
- Representing the IPC publicly, including
before Parliament and in the media, and gaining the confidence
of key stakeholders and partners, including infrastructure providers
and environmental organisations.
- Undertaking appraisals of Commissioners
and making recommendations to Ministers of CLG for reappointments.
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