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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/five-estuaries-offshore-wind-farm-order-2025/schedule-2/part-1/paragraph-2",
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  "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/2/part/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Offshore design parameters",
  "text": "(1) The wind turbine generators to be constructed and operated within Work No. 1 of the authorised development must be located within the area delineated by the co-ordinates in the table in Schedule 16 (offshore co-ordinates) and shown as Work No. 1 on sheet 2 of the offshore works plan.\n(2) The offshore works must be constructed in accordance with the parameters set out in Table 1 below.\nTable 1\nParameter\nValue\nMaximum number of wind turbine generators\n79\nMaximum total rotor swept area (metres squared)\n4,194,340\nMaximum height of wind turbine generators when measured from LAT to the tip of the vertical blade (metres)\n370\nMaximum rotor diameter of each wind turbine generator (metres)\n340\nMinimum distance from MHWS to the lowest point of the rotating blade for each wind turbine generator (metres)\n28\nMinimum distance between wind turbine generators (in all directions measured from the centre point of each wind turbine generator) (metres)\n830\nMaximum pile diameter of single pile structures (metres)\n15\nMaximum pile diameter of three pile structures (metres)\n4\nMaximum pile diameter of four pile structures (metres)\n3.5\nMaximum total seabed footprint for wind turbine generators (excluding scour protection) (metres squared)\n99,274\nMaximum total seabed footprint for wind turbine generators (including scour protection) (metres squared)\n834,896\nMaximum total scour protection volume for wind turbine generator foundations (metres cubed)\n1,248,850\nMaximum total length of inter-array cables (kilometres)\n200\nMaximum inter-array cable protection area (metres squared)\n321,600\nMaximum inter-array cable protection volume (metres cubed)\n187,600\nMaximum number of offshore substations\n2\nMaximum dimensions of offshore substations:\nHeight when measured from LAT (excluding towers, helipads, mast and cranes) (metres)\nLength (metres)\nTopside width (metres)\n105\n125\n100\nMaximum total seabed footprint for offshore substation platforms (excluding scour protection) (metres squared)\n3,700\nMaximum total seabed footprint for offshore substation platform foundations (including scour protection) (metres squared)\n72,985\nMaximum total scour protection volume for offshore substation platforms foundations (metres cubed)\n125,450\nMaximum total length of export cables (kilometres)\n196\nMaximum export cable protection area (metres squared)\n178,304\nMaximum export cable protection volume (metres cubed)\n129,691\n(3) Any part of Work No. 2(c) and any associated development or ancillary works located within the Sunk and Trinity Deep Water Routes, as shown shaded yellow on the deep water route cable installation area (future dredging depths) plan, must be installed and maintained at a level which would not impede the dredging of those parts of the Sunk and Trinity Deep Water Routes as follows—\n(a) shown shaded in yellow and outlined in a bold black line (and labelled Sunk Area A (22m CD)) to a level of 22 metres below Chart Datum;\n(b) shown shaded in yellow and outlined in a blue dotted line (and labelled Trinity (22m CD)) to a level of 22 metres below Chart Datum; and\n(c) shown shaded in yellow and cross hatched in orange (and labelled Sunk Area B (19m CD)) to a level of 19 metres below Chart Datum.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 2(2) table 1 inserted (6.10.2026) by The Five Estuaries Offshore Wind Farm (Correction) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/1070), art. 1, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 2 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/2/part/1/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}