Update

The Taskforce recommended bespoke legislation to create Modular Low-Carbon Acceleration Zones with their own environmental assessment and contribution regimes. The Government has instead chosen to deliver the zone concept through the broader EDP and EOR framework — a more generic mechanism that applies across infrastructure types. The Government can legislate for bespoke procedural requirements for defined geographies within this framework, which achieves much of the intended outcome but through a different, less nuclear-specific route. The lack of bespoke legislation means nuclear zones will compete for attention within a wider reform programme.