{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hornsea-one-offshore-wind-farm-order-2014/schedule-9/part-2/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hornsea-one-offshore-wind-farm-order-2014/schedule-9/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/9/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 the 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 high resolution swath bathymetric survey to include a 100% coverage and a side scan sonar survey of the part(s) of Wind Farm Area 2 in 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;\n(b) a survey of existing ornithological activity covering the part(s) of Wind Farm Area 2 within which it is proposed to carry out construction works under this licence, and any wider area(s) where appropriate, which is required to test predictions in the Environmental Statement concerning key ornithological interests of relevance to the authorised scheme;\n(c) 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 Wind Farm Area 2 in which it is proposed to carry out construction works under this licence; and\n(d) any marine mammal monitoring required by the marine mammal monitoring plan submitted in accordance with condition 13(2)(h).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 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/9/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."
}