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Z0006.26 Undecided

Proposal

New Warley Substation 400 kV Replacement Substation Project - Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Screening Request for Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (TCPA) Works under the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 28 Oct 2026, 09:43

Application progress

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Received

3 Aug 2026

Decision

Target date was 24 Aug 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 29 Oct 2026; it is now day 87.

Documents

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Site constraints 6

Green belt: London

Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.

Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

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Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Air quality management area: Havering AQMA

The council has declared the area as failing an air quality objective.

Schemes that add traffic, parking or combustion plant are assessed against the area's action plan and may need an air quality assessment.

Council record ↗

National infrastructure project about 156 m away: Lower Thames Crossing

The site is about 156 m from the project boundary. Highway, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted.

Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.

Planning Inspectorate project page ↗

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Public transport access: PTAL 1a (very poor), TfL 2023, for the 100 m square.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 15 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate, Transport for London (public transport access levels, Powered by TfL Open Data, OGL v3.0, contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: Havering
Received: 3 Aug 2026
Validated: 3 Aug 2026
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 24 Aug 2026
Agent: Stephanie.Taylor Consents Officer Strategic Infrastructure Electricity Trasnmission National Grid

Decision outlook

Day 87, past the statutory target. 86% of utility and infrastructure works in Havering are decided within thirteen weeks, which runs to 2 Nov 2026; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 28 Oct 2026.

target

predicted

Day 8731 days past the 56-day target

34%decided within 8 weeks

83%approved

31decided in the last year

Plota live figures for utility and infrastructure works decided by Havering in the last twelve months, from validation. Havering decision record →

Havering

Planning Authority Score

2.5/10

Poor

#251 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Havering is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #202 out of 296. 47% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Havering is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 83% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils

only 83% approved vs 90% nationally

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Havering decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

74%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #290 of 296

83%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #262 of 296

56%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #202 of 296

47%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #207 of 296

42%

Minor dwellings approved

156 decided (1-9 homes)

83%

Major dwellings approved

12 decided (10+ homes)

29%

Change of use approved

101 decided

1,501

Total decisions

385 refused in the year to March 2026