Electricity Network Infrastructure: Consents, Land Access and Rights

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is consulting on changes to land rights and consents processes for electricity network infrastructure to support the transition to Net Zero and secure Clean Power by 2030. This follows an August-September 2022 Call for Evidence, which sought views and suggestions for improving current land rights and consents processes. Fair and proportionate land rights and consents processes are crucial to enabling us to meet the country’s need to build more network infrastructure. By land rights and consenting processes, we refer to the processes by which network operators gain the consent of landowners and/or occupiers of land to access their land in order to build and/or maintain network assets and by which they get planning permission from the government to build/or maintain the infrastructure. It is vital that these processes protect the rights of landowners, local stakeholders and the environment, while enabling the timely delive