{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dogger-bank-creyke-beck-offshore-wind-farm-order-2015/schedule-1/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dogger-bank-creyke-beck-offshore-wind-farm-order-2015/schedule-1/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/318",
  "legislation_title": "The Dogger Bank Creyke Beck Offshore Wind Farm Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dogger-bank-creyke-beck-offshore-wind-farm-order-2015",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Detailed offshore design parameters",
  "text": "(1) The total number of offshore platforms forming part of the authorised project must not exceed 14 comprising—\n(a) up to 8 offshore collector platforms;\n(b) up to 2 offshore converter platforms;\n(c) up to 4 offshore accommodation or helicopter platforms,\nprovided that any of the platforms comprised in paragraphs (a) to (c) may be co-joined to create a combined platform fixed to the seabed by multi-leg or gravity base type foundations.\n(2) The dimensions of any offshore collector platforms forming part of the authorised project (excluding towers, helicopter landing pads, masts and cranes) must not exceed 75 metres in length, 75 metres in width and 85 metres in height above HAT.\n(3) The dimensions of any offshore converter platform forming part of the authorised project (excluding towers, helicopter landing pads, masts and cranes) must not exceed 125 metres in length, 100 metres in width and 105 metres in height above HAT.\n(4) The dimensions of any offshore accommodation or helicopter platforms forming part of the authorised project (excluding towers, helicopter landing pads, masts and cranes) must not exceed 125 metres in length, 100 metres in width and 105 metres in height above HAT.\n(5) The dimensions of any combined platform forming part of the authorised project (excluding towers, helicopter landing pads, masts and cranes) must not exceed the total footprint of the individual platforms incorporated within it.\n(6) Offshore platform foundation structures forming part of the authorised project must be 1 of the following foundation options: gravity base or multi-leg.\n(7) No offshore platform foundation structure employing a footing of driven piles forming part of the authorised project must—\n(a) have more than 24 driven piles;\n(b) have a pile diameter of greater than 2.744 metres or employ a hammer energy during installation of greater than 3,000 kilojoules.\n(8) No offshore platform foundation must have a seabed footprint area of subsea scour protection (excluding foundation footprint) of more than 8,742 square metres.\n(9) The foundations for offshore platforms must not exceed the dimensions set out below—\nFoundation type\nOffshore collector platform (multi-leg or gravity base foundation)\nOffshore converter platform (multi-leg or gravity base foundation)\nOffshore accommodation or helicopter platform (multi-leg or gravity base foundation)\nMaximum seabed footprint area per foundation (excluding scour protection) in square metres\n5,625\n12,500\n12,500",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 5(7)(b) substituted (18.6.2022) by The Dogger Bank Creyke Beck Offshore Wind Farm (Amendment) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/681), arts. 1, 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 5 in force at 11.3.2015, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/318/schedule/1/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:47:03.364506+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}