Paragraph 2 Details of licensed marine activitiesI1

England, Wales and Scotland

Subject to the licence conditions, this licence authorises the undertaker (and any agent or contractor acting on their behalf) to carry out the following licensable marine activities under section 66(1) (licensable marine activities) of the 2009 Act—

(a)

the deposit at sea of the substances and articles specified in paragraph 4 below;

(b)

the construction of works in or over the sea or on or under the sea bed;

(c)

dredging for the purposes of seabed preparation for foundation works and cable laying preparation works;

(d)

debris clearance works;

(e)

boulder clearance works either by displacement ploughing or subsea grab technique or other equivalent method;

(f)

UXO clearance works;

(g)

the removal of out of service cables;

(h)

the removal of sediment samples for the purposes of informing environmental monitoring under this licence during pre-construction, construction and operation; and

(i)

the disposal of up to 3,022,423 m³ of inert material of natural origin and/or dredged material within the offshore Order limits produced during construction drilling or seabed preparation for foundation works, sandwave clearance and boulder clearance works at disposal site reference(s) to be provided by the MMO within the extent of the Order limits seaward of MHWS comprising—

(i)

1,779,891 m³ in respect of the wind turbine generators;

(ii)

400,000 m³ in respect of the inter-array cables;

(iii)

23,732 m³ in respect of the meteorological mast;

(iv)

668,800 m³ in respect of the construction, operation and maintenance platform and the offshore electrical platforms (some of which may alternatively be disposed under licence 2 (transmission)); and

(v)

150,000 m³ in respect of the platform link cables (some of which may alternatively be disposed under licence 2 (transmission)).

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 13 Pt. 1 para. 2 in force at 22.4.2022, see art. 1(2)