Power Stations: Plymouth
Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
Written answers and statements, 3 November 2008
Gary Streeter (South West Devon, Conservative)
To ask the Minster of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what progress has been made in establishing an energy park at Langage, Devon, pursuant to the licence granted to the former Department of Trade and Industry to build a power station on the site.
Mike O'Brien (Minister of State, Department for Energy and Climate Change; North Warwickshire, Labour)
I have been asked to reply.
Planning permission from the local planning authority for the first 10,000 sq m of office development has been granted. As the hon. Member is aware, the energy park development program is closely tied to that of the power station. The Department has been informed that the access road for the power station, which is required before construction of the energy park development can proceed, is still not complete and is now targeted for late summer 2009.