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Infrastructure definition

What does Infrastructure mean? In legal practice, infrastructure describes assets and networks that provide essential or public services and the projects to procure, finance, construct, operate and maintain them. It is a descriptive term rather than a single defined legal concept; sectoral statutes and planning regimes define specific categories for particular purposes (for example, nationally significant infrastructure projects under the Planning Act 2008 in England and Wales; national or major developments in Scotland; regionally significant development in Northern Ireland; and strategic infrastructure development under Ireland’s Planning and Development Acts). Sectors commonly include transport (roads, railways, ports and airports), social infrastructure (schools, hospitals and justice estates),...

UK infrastructure projects: government bodies, devolved arrangements and retained EU-derived procurement framework and guidance for PPP/PFI/PF2 (post-Brexit and COVID-19)

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Note on public procurement Post-brexit

The Implementation Period under the EU–UK Withdrawal Agreement ended at 11:00 pm GMT on 31 December 2020 (IP Completion Day). From that point, the changes brought in by the Public Procurement (Amendment etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020, SI 2020/13/19, to EU-derived public procurement law took effect, except for the amendments in Regulations 7, 9, 11 and 16. This Practice Note has been revised to reflect these post-Brexit developments. The UK government has also released high-level post-Brexit procurement guidance, updated after IP Completion Day: Public procurement policy and Public-sector procurement. For more detail, see Practice Note: Brexit—the implications for public procurement [Archived].

Scope of this Practice Note

This Practice Note reviews the institutions and government departments responsible for delivering infrastructure projects in the UK—particularly public private partnerships (PPP or P3), the private finance initiative (PFI) and Private Finance 2 (PF2), PFI’s successor model—together with the relevant legislation and guidance. It is noteworthy that in the 2018 Budget (delivered on 29 October 2018), it was announced that the government will...

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Mathias Cheung

Atkin Chambers

Mathias Cheung is a barrister at Atkin Chambers. He specialises in commercial and construction dispute resolution, including litigation, adjudication and international arbitration. Mathias has acted in a complex TCC dispute regarding the redevelopment of the Rolls Building, and has appeared successfully as junior counsel in Vinci Construction UK Ltd v Beumer Group UK Ltd [2018] EWHC 1874 (TCC). He also appears regularly as sole counsel in the TCC, most recently in DSVG Facades Ltd v Conneely Facades Ltd and McDonald & Anor v D&F Contracts Ltd [2018] EWHC 1600 (TCC).Mathias has extensive experience advising on disputes and adjudications concerning PFI hospital and school projects, which typically involve complex contractual issues in relation to service failures, payment deductions, insolvency and termination. As a native of Hong Kong, Mathias is fluent in both Cantonese and Mandarin. He has recently acted as junior counsel in a...

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