{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hornsea-one-offshore-wind-farm-order-2014/schedule-11/part-2/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hornsea-one-offshore-wind-farm-order-2014/schedule-11/part-2/paragraph-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/3331",
  "legislation_title": "The Hornsea One Offshore Wind Farm Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hornsea-one-offshore-wind-farm-order-2014",
  "path": "schedule/11/part/2/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Pre-construction monitoring and surveys",
  "text": "(1) The licence-holder must, when submitting details under condition 13(2)(a)—\n(a) in relation to proposed pre-construction surveys, include methodologies and timings, and specify each survey’s objectives and explain how it will assist in either informing a useful and valid comparison with the post-construction position and/or will enable the validation or otherwise of key predictions in the Environmental Statement; and\n(b) in relation to the baseline report proposals, ensure that the outcome of the agreed surveys together with existing data and reports are drawn together to present a valid statement of the pre-construction position, with any limitations, and shall make clear what post-construction comparison is intended and the justification for this being required.\n(2) Subject to receipt from the licence-holder of specific proposals pursuant to this condition, it is expected that the pre-construction surveys will comprise, in outline—\n(a) a survey to determine the location, extent and composition of any benthic habitats of conservation, ecological and/or economic importance in the part(s) of the offshore Order limits in which it is proposed to carry out construction works under this licence;\n(b) a Phase 1 survey of the intertidal area within which it is proposed to carry out construction works;\n(c) a high resolution swath bathymetric survey to include a 100% coverage and a side scan sonar survey of the part(s) of the offshore Order limits within which it is proposed to carry out construction works and disposal activities under this licence, including a 500m buffer around the site of each works; and\n(d) a grab survey and particle size analysis in the part(s) of the offshore Order limits within which it is proposed to carry out dredging and disposal activities relating to Works Nos. 5 and 6 under this licence within a period not longer than 12 months prior to the dredging and disposal activities, to determine the extent of suitable herring spawning habitat within areas HU209 and HU210.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 11 para. 18 in force at 31.12.2014, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3331/schedule/11/part/2/paragraph/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:53:19.221455+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."
}