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Dear Drew Hardy

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Drew Hardy

30 Nov 2023, 14:19 GMT

Dear Planning Inspectorate,

I am writing to request digital files (in any standard spatial file format)
showing the extent of each individual project listed on the National
Infrastructure Planning website.
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Yours faithfully,

Drew Hardy

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Dear Drew Hardy,

Your ticket 45739 has been updated.

Dear Drew Hardy
 
Thank you for your email.  
 
I would be grateful if you could explain what you mean by "extent", and
precisely what it is that you are seeking.
 
 
Yours sincerely
 
 

Bob Palmer

Customer Team
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Dear Drew Hardy,

Your ticket 45739 has been updated.

Dear Bob,

Thank you for your message. By 'extent', I am referring to all land that
is included in the application i.e. the 'red line boundary' of the
application, similar to that which one might find on a Site Location plan
attached to a normal planning application.

Yours faithfully,

Drew Hardy

Kind Regards
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Dear Drew Hardy

Please accept our sincere apologies for the delay in responding. We need
additional time to process your request to ensure it is completely
fulfilled, we aim to resolve your Freedom of Information request within
the next 5 working days.

Dear Bob,

Thank you for your message. By 'extent', I am referring to all land that
is included in the application i.e. the 'red line boundary' of the
application, similar to that which one might find on a Site Location plan
attached to a normal planning application.

Yours faithfully,

Drew Hardy

Kind Regards,

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Dear Drew Hardy,

Your ticket 45739 has been updated.

Dear Planning Inspectorate,

Please can I get an update on the status of this request? More than 5
working days have elapsed since the previous message was sent.

Yours faithfully,

Drew Hardy

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Hi Drew

Thanks for your request regarding land plans for NSIPs on our website.
Firstly, apologies for the delay getting back to you, this request was
forwarded to a member of our team who was recently on leave for a
prolonged period. We have put a new measure in place to prevent this from
happening again in the future.

With regards to your request, I believe that you are asking for a map
showing all (current?) NSIPs marked on one map. I’m afraid that this is
not something that we hold and under the FOI Act we are not required to
create any new files/documents on request, only to share what we do
already hold.

On our website you can find links to all the NSIP projects currently
active, and on each of these (that has reached the relevant stage of the
process) you will be able to find land plans (note that some projects in
the early stages of pre-application won’t have these yet).

If I’ve misunderstood the request at all or you need any further
assistance navigating the website, then do please let me know and we will
be happy to help.

Kind regards

Owen Kelly-Reynolds

Owen Kelly-Reynolds

Operations Manager – NSIP Reform

The Planning Inspectorate

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Hi Drew

Thanks for getting back to me with that further information and the link to Michael Gove's speech. Despite being National Infrastructure data, this is information that is held and delivered by the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

A paper was published by DLUHC in November laying out the information relating to the launch of this dataset. You can find the paper here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio..., with the specific information relating to your request in section "2. Going Further", "Theme 3".

You will see a link to this tool: https://www.planning.data.gov.uk/. Please note that this is (as mentioned in the article and accompanying footnote) still in development with data being uploaded, so you may not find everything you want on there yet. If there is more information you require, then you will need to speak directly to DLUHC via their FOI contact: [email address]

I hope this helps and do let me know if you have any further queries.

Kind regards

Owen Kelly-Reynolds

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