Nationally significant infrastructure projects: the stages of the NSIP process and how you can have your say

Publication Year

2026

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Comprises advice explaining the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) process, describing how the people and organisations involved can comment. Covers: the stages of the NSIP process including the pre-application stage, acceptance stage, pre-examination stage, the Examining Authority’s initial assessment of principal issues, preliminary meeting, other meetings, examination stage, recommendation stage and decision stage; summary of how members of the public can take part at each stage.

Document History

Last updated: 27 July 2026 - Relevant advice pages have been updated on an initial basis to reflect some of the key changes to the Planning Act 2008 process introduced by the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025. These initial updates include the removal of all references to the obsolete statutory requirement for applicants to carry out pre-application consultation. A further detailed review of the Planning Inspectorate’s advice page collection will commence from summer 2026. This review will inform future updates to the advice page collection to fully align content with the amended legal framework. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/nationally-significant-infrastructure-projects-the-stages-of-the-nsip-process-and-how-you-can-have-your-say and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 8 August 2024.

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