ELECTRICITY & PIPE-LINE WORKS (ASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL (EFFECTS) REGULATIONS 1990)

Application under Section 1 of the Pipelines Act 1962 for a Cross Country Pipeline for the KPL CCGT Power Station

Kingsnorth Power Ltd., hereby give notice, in accordance with section 1 of the Pipe-lines Act 1962, and the Regulation 7(3) of the Electricity and Pipe-line Works (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1990, that an application has been made to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry for the grant of authorisation for the construction of a cross-country pipe-line.   The proposed 610 millimetre diameter pipeline, which is to be for the conveyance of natural gas will start at the existing BG Transco NTS pipeline located 1.5 kilometres west of Lower Stoke, Rochester, Kent, and end at the proposed KPL CCGT Power Station site, Kingsnorth, Kent. The pipe-line will be owned by Kingsnorth Power Ltd.   Copies of the map, on which the proposed route of the pipe-line is delineated and which will run with limits of deviation of 200 metres on either side and the Environmental Statement (which accompanied the application) can be inspected during normal office hours at the Department of Trade and Industry, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET, telephone 0171-215 5151, and at the offices of the following local authorities, Rochester Upon Medway City Council, Civic Centre, Strood, Rochester, Kent ME2 4AW, and Kent County Council, Springfield, Maidstone, Kent ME14 2LL.   Objections to this application should be made in writing, setting out the grounds of objection and bearing the Ref. AAC/2/83 and should be sent to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry at 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET, marked for the attention of Mr. G. Cobb, to arrive not later than 20th February 1998.