{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/five-estuaries-offshore-wind-farm-order-2025/schedule-10/paragraph-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/five-estuaries-offshore-wind-farm-order-2025/schedule-10/paragraph-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1376",
  "legislation_title": "The Five Estuaries Offshore Wind Farm Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/five-estuaries-offshore-wind-farm-order-2025",
  "path": "schedule/10/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Design parameters",
  "text": "(1) The total number of wind turbine generators comprised in the authorised development must not exceed 79.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), each wind turbine generator forming part of the authorised scheme must not—\n(a) exceed a height of 370 metres when measured from LAT to the tip of the vertical blade;\n(b) exceed a rotor diameter of 340 metres;\n(c) be less than 28 metres from MHWS to the lowest point of the rotating blade; and\n(d) be less than 830 metres from the nearest wind turbine generator in all directions.\n(3) The minimum distance in sub-paragraph (2)(d) between each wind turbine generator is to be measured from the centre point of the wind turbine generator.\n(4) Wind turbine generator foundation structures forming part of the authorised development must be one of the following foundation options—\n(a) monopile foundations;\n(b) mono suction caisson foundations;\n(c) pin-piled jacket foundations; or\n(d) suction caisson jacket foundations.\n(5) No wind turbine generator with a piled foundation may—\n(a) employ more than 4 pin piles per foundation;\n(b) in the case of monopile foundations, exceed a monopile diameter of 15 metres;\n(c) in the case of a two or three pile foundation, exceed a pile diameter of 4 metres per pile; or\n(d) in the case of a four pile foundation, exceed a pile diameter of 3.5 metres per pile.\n(6) The total seabed footprint area for wind turbine generator foundations must not exceed—\n(a) 99,274 square metres excluding scour protection; and\n(b) 834,896 square metres including scour protection.\n(7) The total volume of scour protection material for wind turbine generator foundations must not exceed 1,248,850 cubic metres.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 10 para. 10 in force at 8.1.2026, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1376/schedule/10/paragraph/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:07:51.328273+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."
}