Wind Power: Development Consent Orders
Commons · Question 1564 · Tabled 14 May 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · Official record
Answered 22 May 2026
Question
Asked by Andrew Snowden
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the economic impact of the extension to the deadline for the decision on granting a Development Consent Order to the Morgan-Morecambe transmission assets.
Answer
Answered by Michael Shanks, 22 May 2026
The application for development consent was assessed in the usual way against all relevant planning considerations. An extension to the deadline for deciding the application was announced on 14 May by written ministerial statement to Parliament. It would ...