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Major road and rail transport projects use a number of different regimes for securing planning and consenting approvals depending on their size, scale and likely impacts.

The Planning Act 2008 sets out the definition for highways and railway projects that are considered as Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects and must be consented via a development consent order.

This call for evidence seeks views on whether the current definitions for highways and railway projects in the Planning Act 2008 will result in future transport projects being able to access consenting processes that are proportionate to the project.