{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/morecambe-offshore-windfarm-generation-assets-order-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/morecambe-offshore-windfarm-generation-assets-order-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1366",
  "legislation_title": "The Morecambe Offshore Windfarm Generation Assets Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/morecambe-offshore-windfarm-generation-assets-order-2025",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Design parameters",
  "text": "(1) The wind turbine generators to be constructed and operated as part of the authorised project must be located within the area shown on the offshore works plan.\n(2) No part of any wind turbine generator to be constructed as part of the authorised project shall oversail or extend beyond the Order limits.\n(3) The authorised project must be constructed in accordance with the parameters set out in Table 2.\nTable 2\nParameter\nValue\nMaximum number of wind turbine generators\n35\nMaximum total rotor swept area (m2)\n1,858,252\nMaximum height of wind turbine generators when measured from HAT to the tip of the vertical blade (m)\n310\nMaximum rotor diameter of each wind turbine generator (m)\n280\nMinimum distance from HAT to the lowest point of the rotating blade for each turbine (m)\n25\nMinimum intra-row distance (between wind turbine generators in a row of wind turbine generators) (m)\n1,060\nMinimum inter-row distance (between rows of wind turbine generators) (m)\n1,410\nMaximum diameter of monopiles for wind turbine generators on monopile foundations (m)\n12\nMaximum diameter of piles for wind turbine generators on multi-legged jackets with piling foundations (m)\n3\nMaximum diameter of gravity base at the seabed for wind turbine generators on gravity base foundations (m)\n65\nMaximum diameter of suction buckets for wind turbine generators on multi-legged jackets with suction bucket foundations (m)\n20\nMaximum diameter of monopiles for offshore substation platform monopile foundations (m)\n12\nMaximum diameter of piles for offshore substation platforms on multi-legged jackets with piling foundations (m)\n3\nMaximum diameter of gravity base at the seabed for offshore substation platforms on gravity base foundations (m)\n65\nMaximum diameter of suction buckets for offshore substation platforms on multi-legged jackets with suction bucket foundations (m)\n20\nMaximum total seabed footprint of wind turbine generators (including scour protection) (m2)\n248,080\nMaximum number of offshore substation platforms\n2\nMaximum dimensions of offshore substation platforms (excluding towers, helipads, masts, cranes and lightning protection):\n(a) Height when measured from HAT (m)\n50\n(b) Length (m)\n50\n(c) Width (m)\n50\nMaximum height when measured from HAT of offshore substation platforms (including helipads and lightning protection) (m)\n70\nMaximum total seabed footprint area for offshore substation platform foundations (including scour protection) (m2)\n14,176\nMaximum total length of cables (inter-array cables and platform link cables) (km)\n80\nMaximum number of cable crossings\n15\nMaximum volume of natural material for disposal (m3)\n1,416,463\nMaximum total footprint of scour protection (m2) (exclusive of foundations for wind turbine generators and offshore substation platforms)\n139,490\nMaximum total volume of scour protection for wind turbine generators and offshore substation platforms (m3)\n278,980\nMaximum footprint of cable protection (m2) (including cable protection, entries to offshore substation platforms and wind turbine generators and cable crossings)\n216,250\nMaximum volume of cable protection (m3) (including cable protection, entries to offshore substation platforms and wind turbine generators and cable crossings)\n259,700\nMaximum hammer energy (kilojoules or kJ) employed during installation of pin piles\n2,500\nMaximum hammer energy (kilojoules or kJ) employed during installation of monopile foundations\n6,600\n(4) The wind turbine generators to be constructed or operated as part of the authorised project must have the same height and rotor diameter, unless otherwise agreed by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(2) substituted (8.6.2026) by The Morecambe Offshore Windfarm Generation Assets (Correction) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/608), art. 1, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2 in force at 23.12.2025, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1366/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:07:56.229704+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."
}