{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hornsea-three-offshore-wind-farm-order-2020/schedule-1/part-3/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hornsea-three-offshore-wind-farm-order-2020/schedule-1/part-3/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1656",
  "legislation_title": "The Hornsea Three Offshore Wind Farm Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hornsea-three-offshore-wind-farm-order-2020",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/3/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Detailed offshore design parameters",
  "text": "(1) The total number of wind turbine generators comprised in the authorised project must not exceed 231 and a total rotor swept area of 8.8 square kilometres.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), each wind turbine generator forming part of the authorised project must not—\n(a) exceed a height of 325 metres when measured from LAT to the tip of the vertical blade;\n(b) exceed a rotor diameter of 265 metres;\n(c) be less than 41.8 metres from LAT to the lowest point of the rotating blade; and\n(d) be less than one kilometre from the nearest wind turbine generator in all directions.\n(3) The reference in sub-paragraph (2)(d) to the location of a wind turbine generator is a reference to the centre point of that wind turbine generator.\n(4) Wind turbine generator foundation structures forming part of the authorised scheme must be one of the following foundation options: monopile foundation, mono suction bucket foundation, jacket foundation or gravity base foundation.\n(5) No wind turbine generator—\n(a) jacket foundations employing pin piles forming part of the authorised project shall have a pin pile diameter of greater than four metres; and\n(b) monopile foundation forming part of the authorised project shall have a diameter greater than 15 metres.\n(6) The total seabed footprint area for wind turbine generator foundations must not exceed—\n(a) 435,660 square metres excluding scour protection; and\n(b) 1,623,182 square metres including scour protection.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. 3 para. 2 in force at 22.1.2021, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1656/schedule/1/part/3/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:19:02.788189+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."
}