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In the Unitary authority areas of East Riding of Yorkshire and North Yorkshire a nationally significant infrastructure project as defined in sections 14 and 15 of the 2008 Act and associated development under section 115(1)(b) of the 2008 Act.

The nationally significant infrastructure project comprises one generating station with a gross electrical output capacity of over 50 megawatts comprising all or any of the work numbers in this Schedule or any part of any work number in this Schedule—

Work No. 1— a ground mounted solar photovoltaic generating station with a gross electrical output capacity of over 50 megawatts including—

(a)

solar panels fitted to mounting structures; and

(b)

field stations;

and associated development within the meaning of section 115(2) of the 2008 Act including—

Work No. 2— development of onsite substations and associated works including—

(a)

substations, switch room buildings and ancillary equipment including reactive power units and harmonic filters; and

(b)

monitoring and control systems housed within a control building or located separately in their own containers or control rooms, with welfare facilities.

Work No. 3— works to lay electrical cables and compounds for the electrical cables including—

(a)

works to lay 132kV electrical cables connecting Work No. 2 to the National Grid Drax Substation, including link boxes and tunnelling, boring and drilling works for trenchless crossings;

(b)

electrical engineering works within or around the National Grid Drax Substation including the laying and terminating of the electrical cables and ancillary equipment; and

(c)

construction and decommissioning compounds, including site and welfare offices and areas to store materials and equipment.

Work No. 4— works including—

(a)

electrical cables, including but not limited to electrical cables connecting Works No. 1, 2 and 3 to one another and connecting solar panels to one another and the field stations including tunnelling, boring and drilling works for trenchless crossings;

(b)

landscaping and biodiversity mitigation and enhancement measures including planting;

(c)

earthworks;

(d)

laying down of temporary footpath diversions, permissive paths, signage and information boards;

(e)

hardstanding and parking areas;

(f)

sustainable drainage systems including ponds, runoff outfalls, general drainage and irrigation infrastructure, systems and improvements or extensions to existing drainage and irrigation systems;

(g)

fencing, gates, boundary treatment and other means of enclosure;

(h)

works for the provision of security and monitoring measures such as CCTV columns, cameras, lighting columns and lighting, weather stations, perimeter fencing and communication infrastructure;

(i)

improvement, maintenance and use of existing private tracks;

(j)

laying down of internal access tracks, ramps, means of access, footpaths, crossing of watercourses and roads, including the laying and construction of drainage infrastructure, signage and information boards;

(k)

construction and decommissioning compounds, including site and welfare offices and areas to store materials and equipment; and

(l)

works to divert and underground existing electrical overhead lines.

Work No. 5— construction and decommissioning compounds including—

(a)

areas of hardstanding;

(b)

parking areas;

(c)

site and welfare offices, canteens and workshops;

(d)

security infrastructure, including cameras, perimeter fencing and lighting;

(e)

areas to store materials and equipment and waste skips;

(f)

site drainage and waste management infrastructure (including sewerage); and

(g)

electricity, water, waste water and telecommunications connections.

Work No. 6— works to develop operations and maintenance buildings including—

(a)

demolition and alteration of existing structures;

(b)

offices, security and welfare facilities;

(c)

storage facilities; and

(d)

parking areas.

Work No. 7— works to facilitate access to Work Nos. 1 to 6, and 8 including—

(a)

creation of accesses from the public highway;

(b)

creation of visibility splays;

(c)

works to widen and surface the public highway and private means of access; and

(d)

works adjacent to highways and accesses including those to structures, boundary features, drainage features on private land required for the facilitation of movement of abnormal indivisible loads associated with the authorised development.

Work No. 8— areas of habitat management including—

(a)

landscape and biodiversity enhancement measures;

(b)

habitat creation and management including earthworks and landscaping, signage and information boards;

(c)

construction of drainage infrastructure and means of access;

(d)

laying down of internal access tracks, means of access and crossing of watercourses, permissive paths; and

(e)

fencing gates boundary treatment and other means of enclosure.

In connection with and in addition to Work Nos. 1 to 8 further associated development within the Order limits, including—

(a)

works for the provision of fencing and security measures such as CCTV, columns, lighting and communication boxes;

(b)

laying down of internal access tracks, ramps and span bridges, means of access, non-motorised links, footpaths and footways, laying and surfacing of permissive paths;

(c)

laying down of temporary footpath diversions, permissive paths and construction of drainage infrastructure, signage and information boards;

(d)

bunds, embankments, trenching and swales;

(e)

boundary treatments, including means of enclosure;

(f)

habitat creation and management including earthworks, landscaping, means of enclosure and the laying and construction of drainage infrastructure;

(g)

landscaping and other works to mitigate any adverse effects of construction, maintenance or operation of the authorised development;

(h)

electrical, gas, water, foul water drainage and telecommunications infrastructure connections, diversions F1..., and works to alter the position of, such services and utilities connections;

(i)

works to alter the course of, or otherwise interfere with, non-navigable rivers, streams or watercourses;

(j)

works to the existing irrigation system and works to alter the position and extent of such irrigation system;

(k)

surface water drainage systems, storm water attenuation systems including storage basins, oil water separators, including channelling and culverting and works to existing drainage systems;

(l)

site establishments and preparation works including site clearance (including vegetation removal, demolition of existing buildings and structures); 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;

(m)

tunnelling, boring and drilling works;

(n)

working sites in connection with the construction and decommissioning of the authorised development and its restoration; and

(o)

other works to mitigate any adverse effects of the construction, maintenance, operation or decommissioning of the authorised development,

and 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 and maintenance or decommissioning of the authorised development but only within the Order limits and insofar as they are unlikely to give rise to any materially new or materially different environmental effects from those assessed in the environmental statement.

Annotations

Textual amendments

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Words in Sch. 1 omitted (20.9.2025) by virtue of The East Yorkshire Solar Farm (Correction) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/1059), art. 1(2), Sch.

Commencement

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Sch. 1 para. 2 in force at 31.5.2025, see art. 1