The Infrastructure Planning Commission announced recently (Thursday 12 January) that it accepted for examination, an application from Able Humber Ports Ltd for proposed port facilities located at Killingholme, Humberside. It comprises the construction of a new quay approximately 1,320m long, together with associated onshore facilities accommodating wind turbine manufacture, assembly and commissioning.

The application was submitted on 19 December 2011 and the decision to accept the application to proceed has been made ahead of the statutory deadline and in accordance with section 55 of the Planning Act 2008. (The IPC has 28 days from the day after the date of receipt of an application to decide whether or not to accept it).