ITT NZIW - Addressing resourcing constraints in environmental permitting - Delivery Partner(s)

Description

Context & Opportunity In close collaboration with industry partners and public regulators, we are designing an innovative target operating model to address resourcing constraints in environmental planning and consenting organisations in Wales. The purpose of this model will be to mitigate avoidable and unnecessary delays in the environmental and planning consenting process for decarbonisation projects, with the aim of extending this approach to renewable energy generation projects (offshore & onshore). We now intend to pilot this target operating model in early 2024 to enable all key stakeholders to test it and learn from new ways of working in a ‘regulatory sandbox’. This pilot has been endorsed by a Memorandum of understanding between the public and private sector organisations that play a pivotal role in making it a success. The model will establish clearly defined safeguards, including segregation of duties, to support public transparency and accountability. Net Zero Industry Wales acts as an independent party to ensure that the project is delivered in a timely fashion, whilst also ensuring that the statutory duties of the public regulators are maintained at all times. We are looking to partner with service suppliers as we further develop and improve this innovative target operating model and prepare to run the first pilot, with the potential to scale it up across Wales as a policy instrument. Requirements On behalf of NZIW’s members and other stakeholders, we are looking to engage with service suppliers to collaborate with one or more delivery partner(s) with the right capabilities to: Support further development of the target operating model in a ‘sandbox’ with developers and public regulators (Work Package 1 - more detail to follow) Support public regulators in Wales as they engage with developers and provide pre-application advice, using a “permit led design” approach, for the pilot project in 2024 (Work Package 2 - more detail to follow) Support public regulators in Wales with the environmental and planning consenting process (Work package 3 - more detail to follow)