Cornish Lithium great news10 Sep 2024 15:06
Cornish Lithium Plc (the “Company”), the pioneering mineral exploration and development company, is pleased to announce that it has received confirmation that the Secretary of State for Housing Communities and Local Government, The Rt Hon Angela Rayner MP (“Secretary of State”), has exercised her powers under Section 35(1) of the Planning Act 2008 (as amended) (the “Planning Act") to direct that the Company’s Trelavour Hard Rock Project in the St Austell area of Cornwall (the “Project”) should be treated as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (“NSIP”).
Having considered the details of the Trelavour Hard Rock Project against the criteria of the NSIP planning regime, the Secretary of State was of the view that the Trelavour Hard Rock Project, in and of itself, is nationally significant for the following reasons:
the Project is likely to have significant economic impact and will be important in driving growth, nationally and regionally;
its influence will impact on a region that is wider than a single local authority area; and
it focuses on the extraction of a strategically important industrial mineral.
In addition, the Secretary of State also considered that the Project would benefit from the application being determined through a single, unified consenting process provided by the Planning Act, thereby removing the need to apply, and the uncertainty of needing to apply, for separate powers and consents.