# The Morecambe Offshore Windfarm Generation Assets Order 2025, Paragraph 3: Restriction on authorised development

Extent: E+W+S

(1) No wind turbine generator, inter-array cables (other than crossings by inter-array cables of the pipeline and cable proximity area that are the subject of a crossing agreement between the undertaker and the licensee which the parties shall use reasonable endeavours to agree), offshore substation platform, transition piece or temporary surface infrastructure shall be erected in the pipeline and cable proximity area, the WTG and OSP marine buffer zone or the WTG marine corridor unless otherwise agreed in writing between the licensee and the undertaker until (in the case of the WTG and OSP marine buffer zone and the WTG marine corridor only) after the O&G Decommissioning Date (the pipeline and cable proximity area remains for so long as the provisions of this Part of this Schedule shall have effect).
(2) No vessel or surface infrastructure or temporary surface infrastructure in transit by or attributable to the undertaker or its agents or contractors in exercising the powers conferred by this Order shall pass within five hundred metres (500 m) of any of the helidecks at any time nor within five hundred metres (500m) of any of the legacy wells whilst any rig or other vessel owned, controlled or instructed by the licensee, is present at this location unless otherwise agreed in writing between the licensee and the undertaker.
(3) In the case of temporary surface infrastructure the licensee may not unreasonably withhold consent where the undertaker has been reasonably requested to place temporary surface infrastructure in the pipeline and cable proximity area, the WTG and OSP marine buffer zone or the WTG marine corridor by a statutory consultee.
(4) No wind turbine generator, temporary surface infrastructure or offshore substation platform shall be erected in the WTG and OSP aviation interim buffer zone unless otherwise agreed in writing between the licensee and the undertaker until after the interim to enduring aviation buffer change date.
(5) No transition piece shall be erected in the WTG and OSP aviation interim buffer zone unless otherwise agreed between the licensee and the undertaker until after the earlier of the date of COP in respect of all fields/reservoirs supported by CPC or 1 July 2030.
(6) No transition piece shall be erected in the TP and OSP aviation interim buffer zone unless otherwise agreed between the licensee and the undertaker until after the interim to enduring aviation buffer change date.
(7) No wind turbine generator, inter-array cables, offshore substation platform, transition piece of temporary surface infrastructure shall be erected in the WTG and OSP aviation enduring buffer zone unless otherwise agreed in writing between the licensee and the undertaker until after the O&G Decommissioning Date.
(8) No wind turbine generator, inter-array cables, offshore substation platform, transition piece or temporary surface infrastructure shall be erected in any well buffer zone unless otherwise agreed in writing between the licensee and the undertaker.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1366/schedule/3/part/3/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/morecambe-offshore-windfarm-generation-assets-order-2025/schedule-3/part-3/paragraph-3
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