High carbon infrastructure and fossil fuel extraction planning
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Dear Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council,
Please treat this as a Freedom of Information/Environmental Information Regulations request.
I would like information about your council’s planning in relation to climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards. This information is most likely to be held by a planning officer or similar.
In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following questions:
a. Has the Council approved any new *1 or expanded *2 roads or road junctions in its area from 1st January 2019 until 1st January 2023? Please list which ones were accepted.
*1 The intention of this question is to understand overall increases in road capacity, rather than recent housing developments. Please exclude minor roads built exclusively to connect new housing to the pre-existing road network.
*2 An expanded road or road junction is one that has increased capacity for motor vehicle traffic, not counting bus lanes, cycle infrastructure, or pedestrian infrastructure. Please include roads and junctions where new lanes have been added.
b. Has the council approved any new or expanded airport runways, terminals, measures to increase passenger numbers or other planning proposals that expand airport capacity in its area since 1st January 2019 until 1st January 2023? Please list which ones were accepted.
c. Has the Council approved any planning applications for fossil fuel extraction projects proposed in its area since 1st January 2019 until 1st January 2023? Please list which ones were accepted, including where relevant fossil fuel projects that were later ‘called in’ by central government.
By fossil fuel extraction projects we mean: any oil wells and fields (on or offshore), coal mines, fracking and shale gas, gas, natural (including liquified) gas (on or off shore) plants, and unabated fossil fuel generation and power plants well as related infrastructure such as pipelines and terminals for the fossil fuels.
I look forward to hearing from you in due course.
Yours faithfully,
Hannah Jewell, Climate Emergency UK
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Thank you for taking the time to look at the FOI/EIR request I have submitted. Ref: 12562.
This is a polite reminder that the legal deadline by which you needed to respond to the FOI/EIR request was 13th February 2023, which has now passed.
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All the best,
Hannah Jewell, Climate Emergency UK
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Good afternoon
Further to your FOI request, please see below.
a. No new or expanded roads have been approved between 1^st January 2019
and 1^st January 2023.
b. N/A – there are no airports in the borough of Trafford.
c. Please find the details of the relevant applications below.
Application Location Proposal Decision
Ref
102287/VAR/20 Land To The Application for Approved
East And variation of with
West Of condition 2 Conditions
Manchester (Approved
Road, Plans) on 4 February
Partington planning 2021
permission
77583/FULL/2011
(Installation
of gas supply
pipeline
between
National Grid
gas connection
and proposed
Trafford CCGT
Power Station
Associated
offtake area at
southern end to
be enclosed by
3m high fencing
and with
external
lighting.). To
alter the route
of the pipeline
and the final
location of the
offtake area
resulting in a
different
development
boundary.
95788/FUL/18 Carrington Development of Approved
Power a gas-powered with
Station energy plant of Conditions
up to 50
132 megawatts (MW), 18
Manchester consisting of February
Road associated 2019
facilities,
Carrington, plant,
M31 4AY machinery and
creation of a
new access
road.
102134/FUL/20 Power Installation of Approved
Station a gas with
engine-based Conditions
132 peaking
Manchester facility of up 20 January
Road to 49.9MW gross 2021
electrical
Carrington, capacity,
M31 4AY including gas
engines,
stacks, cooling
systems, fire
water tank and
pump house, gas
kiosk and
banking
compound with
associated
access, parking
and fencing.
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