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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dean-moor-solar-farm-order-2026/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/754",
  "legislation_title": "The Dean Moor Solar Farm Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dean-moor-solar-farm-order-2026",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the administrative area of Cumberland Council a nationally significant infrastructure project as defined in sections 14 and 15 of the 2008 Act and associated development under section 115 of the 2008 Act.\nThe nationally significant infrastructure project comprises all or part of the following works—\nWork No. 1 — a ground mounted solar photovoltaic generating station with a gross electrical output capacity of over 50 megawatts including—\n(a) solar pv panels;\n(b) mounting structures; and\n(c) power conversion system,\nand associated development within the meaning of section 115(2) of the 2008 Act comprising—\nWork No. 2 — grid connection infrastructure comprising—\n(a) up to two substation buildings;\n(b) a control building;\n(c) Point of Connection (‘POC’) compound comprising external electrical equipment including transformers, relays, circuit breakers and harmonic filters and ancillary infrastructure;\n(d) communication mast;\n(e) security fencing; and\n(f) electrical cables.\nWork No. 2A — up to two POC masts.\nWork No. 3 — works including—\n(a) electrical cables including connecting equipment within Work No. 1 and within Work No. 2 and connecting Works Nos. 1 and 2 to one another;\n(b) fencing, gates, boundary treatment and other means of enclosure;\n(c) improvement, maintenance and use of existing private tracks;\n(d) laying down of internal access tracks, ramps, means of access, permissive paths, crossing of watercourses, culverts, and roads, including the laying and construction of drainage infrastructure, temporary traffic management measures including traffic lights and signage and information boards;\n(e) works for the provision of security and monitoring measures such as CCTV columns, lighting columns and lighting, cameras, communication infrastructure, and perimeter fencing;\n(f) monitoring, communications and control systems;\n(g) electrical vehicle charging points;\n(h) operation and maintenance units including storage, welfare and site management;\n(i) works, improvements or extensions to the existing drainage and irrigation system and works to alter the position and extent of such irrigation system;\n(j) landscaping and biodiversity mitigation and enhancement measures including planting;\n(k) site drainage and waste management infrastructure including underground pipework, watercourse outfalls, sub-bases, filter drains, swales and attenuation tanks;\n(l) working sites in connection with the construction, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised development, lay down areas and compounds, storage compounds and their restoration; and\n(m) noise attenuation works including acoustic barrier.\nWork No. 4 — up to five temporary construction compounds including—\n(a) site entry security stations;\n(b) areas of hardstanding;\n(c) parking;\n(d) areas for vehicle loading, unloading and turning;\n(e) site management offices, welfare facilities, canteens and workshops;\n(f) safety and security infrastructure, including signage, cameras, fencing, gates and lighting; and\n(g) areas to store materials, plant, machinery, equipment and waste.\nWork No. 5 — works to facilitate vehicular access for all works, including—\n(a) enhancement of accesses from the street;\n(b) visibility splays;\n(c) works to widen and surface the street and private means of access; and\n(d) installation of temporary traffic management measures including traffic lights and signs\nWork No. 6 — works to create, enhance and maintain green infrastructure, including—\n(a) landscape and biodiversity mitigation and enhancement measures including planting and improvement of existing features;\n(b) habitat creation and management including, earth works including embankments, landscaping;\n(c) construction of drainage infrastructure;\n(d) watercourse enhancements;\n(e) maintenance of existing access routes and laying down of permissive paths, signage and information boards; and\n(f) fencing, gates, boundary treatment and other means of enclosure.\nIn connection with, and in addition to Works Nos. 1 to 6 further associated development comprising—\n(a) alteration of the layout of any street permanently or temporarily, including increasing or reducing the width of the carriageway;\n(b) street works, including breaking up or opening a street, or any sewer, drain or tunnel under it, and tunnelling or boring under a street;\n(c) relocation, removal or provision of new road traffic signs, signals, street lighting, road restraints and carriageway lane markings;\n(d) works to place, alter, remove or maintain street furniture or apparatus (including statutory undertakers’ apparatus) in, under or above a street, including mains, sewers, drains, pipes, cables, cofferdams, lights, fencing and other boundary treatments;\n(e) works to facilitate traffic management and to deliver information relating to the authorised development;\n(f) laying down, maintenance and repair of internal access tracks, ramps, means of access, footpaths and permissive paths including the laying and construction of drainage infrastructure, signage and information boards;\n(g) bunds, embankments, trenching and swales;\n(h) fencing, gates, boundary treatments and other means of enclosure;\n(i) works, improvements or extensions to the existing drainage and irrigation system and works to alter the position and extent of such irrigation system;\n(j) surface water drainage systems, storm water attenuation systems including storage basins, oil water separators, including channelling and culverting and works to existing drainage networks;\n(k) electrical, gas, water, foul water drainage and telecommunications infrastructure connections, diversions and works to, and works to alter the position of, such services and utilities connections;\n(l) works for the provision of security and monitoring measures such as CCTV columns, lighting columns and lighting, cameras, weather stations, communication infrastructure, and perimeter fencing;\n(m) habitat creation and management, including earthworks, landscaping, means of enclosure, and the laying and construction of drainage infrastructure;\n(n) jointing bays, cable ducts, cable protection, joint protection, manholes, kiosks, marker posts, underground cable marker, tiles and tape, and lighting and other works associated with cable laying;\n(o) landscaping and biodiversity mitigation and other works to mitigate any adverse effects of the construction, maintenance or operation of the authorised development;\n(p) works for the benefit or protection of land affected by the authorised development;\n(q) working sites in connection with the construction, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised development, construction lay down areas and compounds, storage compounds and their restoration, improvement, strengthening, reconstruction, maintenance and use of existing streets, private tracks and access roads;\n(r) temporary footpath diversions and footpath enhancement;\n(s) site establishments and preparation works including site clearance (including vegetation removal, demolition of existing buildings and structures); coal mine remediation works; earthworks (including soil stripping and storage and site levelling) and excavations; the alteration of the position of services and utilities; and works for the protection of buildings and land;\n(t) tunnelling, boring and drilling works;\n(u) works required for crossing, moving re-routing or over/undergrounding of existing utility assets (including water, gas, sewer pipes, electricity distribution/transmission cabling, telecommunications etc.); and\n(v) earthworks;\nand further associated development comprising such other works or operations as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of or in connection with the construction, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the authorised development insofar as they are unlikely to give rise to any materially new or materially different environmental effects from those assessed in the environmental statement.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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