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• Local Authority Unit

HSE provides advice to planning authorities on applications they receive for developments near major hazard sites.

These pages outline HSE's current and future role in the provision of land use planning advice. HSE is currently implementing a new way to access land use planning advice for local authorities. See the implementation of the fundamental review of land use planning IFRLUP

Background

• Land use planning - general background information

Information

• Failure frequencies for major failures of high pressure storage vessels at COMAH sites: A comparison of data used by HSE and the Netherlands [440KB]
• IFRLUP - implementation of the fundamental review of land use planning
• PADHI - HSE's land use planning methodology [189KB]
• PADHI Rule 4c - existing use rule no longer forms part of HSE advice: HSE letter to planning authorities, 14 March 2008 [60KB]
• PADHI - Nuclear Installations

Incident Reports

• Public report of the fire and explosion at the ConocoPhillips Humber refinery on 16 April 2001 [923KB]

Research

• Research reports - land use planning

Useful Links

• Major Accident Hazards Bureau