Ms Danielle Conaghan:

On repowering, at an EU level, we already have the Council regulation that came into force in January. Its focus on repowering is not yet in the planning Bill at all. To summarise it, repowering applications, generally speaking, refer to fewer turbines with a greater output in an area that is already acceptable for wind and has been demonstrably there for 20 or 25 years. Because of all of that, they are saying the consenting timelines for repowering projects should be six months at most and quicker if possible because of the incentive and criticality of delivering these projects in decarbonising. That includes the environmental assessment process bit in that. The point is the legislation is also stating the lens through which those applications would be looked at is the environmental impact of the change or extension. We are not reimagining what it would be if the wind farm were never there; it has been there. It is important to the members and the country to get the targets achieved and to have that articulated in the context of the planning Bill, because it is not at the moment. When it comes to looking at the different timelines for different types of decisions, repowering is one to be treated as a separate line item.