Planning Bill
1:15 pm
Phil Jones: More than single figures. I would not like to pin myself to a number. I think we would be happy to be more precise of that outside of here, but I can see what they are driving at. Quite frankly, we drive in entirely the opposite direction. Our agenda, as the network—the Cinderella part of the organisation, as we like to complain to everybody—is that everybody always forgets about this kind of thing. I can think of an offshore wind farm we are considering a connection for. It is not our wind farm, but we are considering the connection for it right now. The sub-station that we are working on is 15 miles, I think, from where the thing would come on shore. We would say: what is the point taking, in this case, the IPC’s time and trouble to look at the development itself, and maybe the overhead line that connects it? We would want to lump everything in, as I have said, and all that goes with it. Right now, we have three or four of those being considered at any one time. We cover, say, a fifth to a sixth of the UK land mass. There are going to be 20 or 40—not 100, I would have thought, but not single figures.