As one of the UK’s largest low carbon hydrogen production facilities, H2Teesside aims to bring jobs, customers, and investment to Teesside.
Our application for development consent was accepted for Examination by the Planning Inspectorate on 22 April 2024. This means our pre-application consultation and application meets the required standards to proceed to the next stage of the process.
Further information is available on the H2Teesside project page on the Planning Inspectorate’s website here. This page will be updated throughout the process.
Information on the process is available here:
Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects - Advice Note Eight: overview of the nationally significant infrastructure planning process for members of the public and others - GOV.UK
Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects - Advice Note 8.4: the Examination
Since the submission of our application, we have continued to refine our designs while also engaging with interested parties to try and address their comments. This work has identified a number of changes we are now seeking to make to the proposed development. The changes proposed reflect further engineering and design development of the proposed development, changes to construction approach and techniques, reductions in the Order Limits (from approximately 507 to 406.9 hectares), seek to respond to comments received from interested parties, deliver improvements to the proposed development, seek rights over an existing gas pipeline, remove optionality, and reduce its overall impact. We therefore intend to submit a change request to the Examining Authority – the panel of planning inspectors appointed by the Secretary of State to review our application.
We are consulting with the local community, landowners who may be affected, and other stakeholders to enable us to take into account any feedback before we finalise and formally request the changes.
The documents below include a copy of the change notification we have submitted to the Examining Authority and the consultation document which provides a summary of the proposed changes and their environmental impacts, as well as plans indicating where the changes are being proposed.
This consultation runs from 6 September 2024 to 23:59 on 7 October 2024.
We’re consulting on the 14 changes described in the change notification and consultation document, not on the need for any further changes or the H2Teesside project as a whole.
The consultation materials which can be accessed via the links above have been made available to view on a publicly accessible computer at the following locations:
| Information point | Opening times |
|---|---|
Redcar Library, Redcar and Cleveland House, Kirkleatham Street, Redcar, TS10 1RT |
Monday 10am to 2pm Tuesday & Wednesday 9am to 5pm Thursday 11am to 7pm Friday 9am to 5pm Saturday 10am to 2pm Sunday closed |
Stockton Central Library, Church Road, Stockton-on-Tees, TS18 1TU |
Monday & Wednesday 8.30am to 6pm Tuesday & Thursday 8.30am to 8pm Friday 8.30am to 6pm Saturday 09.30am to 4pm Sunday closed |
Hartlepool Civic Centre, Victoria Road, Hartlepool, TS24 8AY |
Monday to Thursday 9am to 5pm Friday 9am to 4.30pm Saturday and Sunday closed |
If you require a printed version of the consultation materials, or an alternative format, please contact us at: info@h2teesside.net or 0800 0803028.
If you have any comments on the proposed changes, we encourage you to have your say, so that we can consider your feedback before we finalise and formally request the changes.
You can respond to the consultation in the following ways:
You can view and download the community letter and plans produced for our February 2024 targeted consultation below:
You can view and download the consultation documents produced for the September 2023 consultation here:
As set out in the H2Teesside Project Update Brochure, our analysis is that the design changes do not alter the conclusions of our assessment presented in the Preliminary Environmental Information Report (PEIR) which we shared as part of our first consultation in September 2023.
The PEIR is available here: