The Rookery South (Resource Recovery Facility)
Order 2011
2. The application to build a 65 megawatt "energy
from waste generating station" on the site of former brick
works at Stewartby in Bedfordshire was lodged by Covanta Rookery
South Limited with the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC)
on 4 August 2010. The proposal was classed as a "nationally
significant infrastructure project" under the Planning Act
2008 because of the size of the proposed plant and, as such, was
subject to the provisions of that Act with respect to the grant
of development consent.
3. The IPC granted development consent to the
scheme in accordance with two National Policy Statements on Energy.[1]
These National Policy Statements were approved by the House of
Commons on 18 July 2011.[2]
In addition to planning consent, the Development Consent Order
contains provisions for the compulsory purchase of types of land
which under section 128(2) of the 2008 Act trigger Special Parliamentary
Procedure, as was the case with this Order.
4. The Rookery South (Resource Recovery Facility)
Order 2011 was laid before Parliament by the Secretary of State
for Energy and Climate Change on 29 November 2011. In accordance
with the 1945 Act, a 21-day joint petitioning process in both
Houses commenced on that day. In total, 39 petitions were deposited
by the closing date on 19 December, five of which were subsequently
referred to this Committee by the Chairman of Ways and Means in
the House of Commons and the Chairman of Committees in the House
of Lords, as required by the 1945 Act. [3]
1 Details of the Infrastructure Planning Commission
process of inquiry can be found on the website of the former IPC
(abolished on 1 April 2012) http://infrastructure.independent.gov.uk/application-process/the-process/
The pages are currently hosted by the Planning inspectorate. Back
2
(1) Department of Energy and Climate Change: Overarching National
Policy Statement for Energy (EN-1), July 2011, and (2) Department
of Energy and Climate Change: National Policy Statement for Renewable
Energy Infrastructure (EN-3), July 2011. Back
3
See: Chairman of Committees, House of Lords and Chairman of Ways
and Means, House of Commons, First Special Report of Session
2010-12: The Rookery South (Resource Recovery Facility) Order
2011: Report on petitions against the Order, 1 May 2012, HL
paper 294, HC 1956. Back
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