5Major infrastructure project

5 Major infrastructure project

The project proposed by the project proponent, known as the North West Transmission Upgrades Project and comprising the following uses and developments, is declared to be a major infrastructure project:

(a) the construction and operation of a double-circuit, extra-high-voltage 220kV overhead electricity transmission line and transmission towers, within a corridor 120 metres wide, to transmit electricity between the following locations:

(i) Palmerston and Sheffield;

(ii) Sheffield, Heybridge and Burnie;

(iii) Burnie and East Cam;

(iv) East Cam and Hampshire;

(v) Hampshire and Staverton;

(b) the construction and operation of an electricity substation at each of the following locations:

(i) [Clause 5 Amended by S.R. 2022, No. 6, Applied:09 Mar 2022] .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  

(ii) [Clause 5 Amended by S.R. 2022, No. 6, Applied:09 Mar 2022] .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  

(iii) Hampshire;

(iv) Staverton;

(c) the construction and operation of ancillary facilities to be located –

(i) within the corridor specified in paragraph (a) ; and

(ii) at the locations specified in paragraph (b) ; and

(iii) at Nietta; and

(iv) at South Nietta;

(v) [Clause 5 Amended by S.R. 2023, No. 58, Applied:16 Aug 2023] at Burnie; and

(vi) [Clause 5 Amended by S.R. 2023, No. 58, Applied:16 Aug 2023] at Deloraine; and