Schedule 1, Paragraph 27: Part 3: Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects Section 17: Underground gas storage
84.This section describes situations where development relating to the underground storage of gas will be a nationally significant infrastructure project.
85.To avoid disturbing the devolution settlement, section 17 provides for decisions on developments in Wales by persons other than gas transporters to continue to be taken by Welsh Ministers under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (which is referred to in these notes as “TCPA 1990”). However, projects in Wales which would previously have been considered by the UK Government Minister under section 4 of the Gas Act 1965 are included in this category of nationally significant infrastructure project.