A Stormont department is to consider 'calling in' plans to extend one of Northern Ireland's main power stations
A Stormont department is to consider "calling in" plans to extend one of Northern Ireland's main power stations.
The department will then consider whether the applications should be "called in" for it to make a decision, or left for the local authority to determine.The move follows an environmental campaign group in Northern Ireland writing to Stormont officials urging them to call in the plans. The Department for Infrastructure said one of two planning applications related to the power station was at an "advanced stage in processing".
"As a result of these directions, the council will have to notify the department when it makes a recommendation in relation to the applications, and it cannot issue decisions until the department has decided whether or not it wishes to 'call in' the applications.
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