# The Morecambe Offshore Windfarm Generation Assets Order 2025, Paragraph 2: Interpretation

Extent: E+W+S

In this Part of this Schedule—
“cable” means the power and telecommunications cables connecting the Calder Platform to the Central Processing Platform 1 complex located in the South Morecambe Field (United Kingdom Continental Shelf block 110/3a) shown purple and annotated as Calder to CPP1 on the Harbour Protective Provisions Plan;
“Calder Field” means the Calder offshore gas field which underlies United Kingdom Continental Shelf block 110/7a;
“Calder Field Facilities” means the facilities and infrastructure pertaining to the Calder Field;
“Calder Platform” means the normally unattended, minimum facilities wellhead platform located in the United Kingdom Continental Shelf block 110/7a D;
“coexistence agreement” means an agreement entered into on reasonable terms between the undertaker and the owner in respect of the authorised development and the owner’s works to reconcile and protect the interests of the parties as are known at the time;
“CPP1” means the manned Central Processing Platform hub complex located in the United Kingdom Continental Shelf Block 110/2a, 110/3a and 110/8a;
“Harbour Energy” means Chrysaor Resources (Irish Sea) Limited, a subsidiary of Harbour Energy PLC;
“Harbour Protective Provisions Plan” means the plan certified as the Harbour Protective Provisions Plan by the Secretary of State under article 12 (certification of documents and plans etc.) of this Order;
“licence” means United Kingdom Petroleum Production Licence P099;
“ministerial statement” means the written statement given by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change to the UK Parliament regarding Crown Estate Leases for Offshore Renewables Projects on 12 July 2011, or any similar supplementary or replacement policy;
“owner” means the owners from time to time of the Calder Field, which at the date stated in article 1 (citation and commencement) of this Order is Harbour Energy;
“owner’s works” means any exploration, appraisal, development, production, maintenance, interventions or decommissioning activity in accordance with and pursuant to the licence or any statutory decommissioning plan required under the Petroleum Act 1998 in relation to the Calder Field Facilities;
“pipeline and cable proximity area” means the area five hundred meters (500m) either side and directly above the pipeline and cable, shown edged pink and annotated as the pipeline and cable proximity area on the Harbour Protective Provisions Plan;
“pipeline” means—
(a)the 3″ Rivers onshore terminal to Calder chemical pipeline with pipeline reference number PL1965; and
(b)the 24″ Calder to Rivers onshore terminal gas pipeline with pipeline reference number PL1966,
shown green and annotated as the Calder to Rivers Onshore Terminal (PL1966) and Rivers Onshore Terminal to Calder (PL1965) on the Harbour Protective Provisions Plan, together with any associated umbilicals, plant and equipment serving those pipelines;
“relevant activities” means all development activity relating to the carrying on of the undertaker’s and owner’s businesses within or adjacent to—
(a)the pipeline and cable proximity area;
(b)the WTG and OSP aviation buffer zone;
(c)the WTG and OSP marine buffer zone; or
(d)the WTG marine corridor,
as the case may be, including (but not limited to) the preparation of development proposals, the submission of applications for statutory consents associated with those proposals and consultation in respect thereof, or the acquisition of or application for new oil or gas blocks;
“temporary surface infrastructure” means any fixed temporary infrastructure to be used in the construction, operation and maintenance, and decommissioning of the authorised development including, but not limited to, jack up barges and buoys, but does not include temporary surface infrastructure in transit;
“WTG and OSP aviation buffer zone” means—
(a)a circular area of three point seven six nautical miles (3.76 nm) of clear airspace measured from the nearest outer extremity edge of the Calder Platform to any tip from any wind turbine generator located within the Order limits and extending vertically from mean sea level; and
(b)a circular area three point seven six nautical miles (3.76 nm) of clear airspace measured from the nearest outer extremity edge of CPP1 to any tip from any wind turbine generator located within the Order limits;
each as shown edged dashed purple annotated as the WTG and OSP aviation buffer zone on the Harbour Protective Provisions Plan;
“WTG and OSP marine buffer zone” means an area of one nautical mile (1 nm) measured from the outer extremity edge of the Calder Platform and extending vertically from mean sea level shown edged in light green and annotated and shown as the WTG and OSP marine buffer zone on the Harbour Protective Provisions Plan;
“WTG marine corridor” means a one nautical mile (1 nm) wide corridor of clear sea space between the Calder Platform and CPP1 edged in dark green and annotated and shown as the WTG marine corridor on the Harbour Protective Provisions Plan.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1366/schedule/3/part/2/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/morecambe-offshore-windfarm-generation-assets-order-2025/schedule-3/part-2/paragraph-2
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.

