The Government’s attempts to devolve planning decisions for onshore wind lack have been criticised by the House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee for containing “insufficient information”

In a scathing report focusing on the Draft Infrastructure Planning (Onshore Wind Generating Stations) Order 2016 and the Onshore Wind Generating Stations (Exemption) (England and Wales) Order 2016, the committee said: ”We draw these Orders to the special attention of the House on the ground that the explanatory material laid in support provides insufficient information to gain a clear understanding about the instruments’ policy objective and intended implementation.”

It went on to add: “We would comment that an Impact Assessment that fails to make key assessments and avoids estimating important impacts is hardly worthy of the name.”

Read more: Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee - Twenty-Third Report