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Part 1 AUTHORISED DEVELOPMENT

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A nationally significant infrastructure project as defined in sections 14 (nationally significant infrastructure projects: general) and 15 (generating stations) of the 2008 Act which is located in the Southern North Sea approximately 40 kilometres from the East Anglian coast at its nearest point, comprising—

  • Work No. 1—

    1. (a)

      an offshore wind turbine generating station with a gross electrical output capacity of over 100 megawatts comprising up to 57 wind turbine generators each fixed to the seabed by one of the following foundation types: monopile, mono suction bucket, multi-leg pin pile jacket or multi-leg suction bucket jacket; and

    2. (b)

      a network of cables between the wind turbine generators and between the wind turbine generators and Work No. 2, including one or more cable crossings;

    and associated development within the meaning of section 115(2) of the 2008 Act comprising—

  • Work No. 2—

    1. (a)

      up to two offshore substation platforms each fixed to the seabed by one of the following foundation types: monopile, multi-leg pin pile jacket or a multi-leg suction bucket jacket and a platform interconnector cable including one or more cable crossings; and

    2. (b)

      up to one offshore converter platform fixed to the seabed by one of the following foundation types: monopile, multi-leg pin pile jacket or a multi-leg suction bucket jacket.

  • Work No. 3— up to two cable circuits between Work No. 2 and Work No. 4A, including one or more cable crossings;

  • Work No. 4A— up to two cable circuits and associated ducting between Work No. 3 and Work No. 4B including up to three drilling exit pits for trenchless installation techniques, one or more cable crossings and a temporary work area for vessels to carry out anchoring and positioning.

  • Between MHWS and MLWS and in the County of Essex and District of Tendring

    • Work No. 4B— landfall connection works comprising up to two cable circuits and associated ducting between Work No. 4A and Work No. 4C, including trenchless installation technique works.

  • In the County of Essex and the District of Tendring

    • Work No. 4C— onshore connection works comprising up to two cable circuits and associated ducting between Work No. 4B and Work No. 4D.

    • Work No. 4D— onshore connection works comprising—

      1. (a)

        up to two cable circuits and associated ducting connecting Work No. 4C and Work No. 6;

      2. (b)

        up to three drilling entry pits for trenchless installation techniques;

      3. (c)

        up to two transition joint bays;

      4. (d)

        working areas and laydown areas and means of access.

    • Work No. 5— temporary compound including temporary working areas and laydown areas.

    • Work No. 6— onshore connection works comprising—

    • Work No. 6A—

      1. (a)

        up to two cable circuits and associated ducting between Work No. 4D and Work No. 12 including working areas and laydown areas and means of access; or

      2. (b)

        up to two cable circuits to be pulled through existing ducts between Work No. 4D and Work No. 12 including working areas and laydown areas and means of access; and

    • Work No. 6B— cable ducting for two additional cable circuits for later installation of additional electrical connections between Work No. 4D and Work No. 12 including working areas and laydown areas and means of access.

    • Work No. 7— temporary compounds including temporary working areas and laydown areas and means of access.

    • Work No.8— temporary means of access including creation and improvement of accesses and visibility splays and vegetation clearance.

    • Work No. 9— works to permanently widen and improve the junction between Bentley Road and the A120 and to permanently widen and improve Bentley Road from A120 to Works No. 6, including temporary provision of area for non-motorised user access.

    • Work No. 10— permanent means of access including creation and improvement of accesses and visibility splays and vegetation clearance.

    • Work No. 11— an onshore substation including platform or foundations, electrical equipment including switch gear, power transformers, reactive compensation equipment, filters, cooling equipment, control and welfare buildings, lightning rods, internal roads, security fencing and other associated equipment, structures and buildings including noise-attenuation works and permanent security fencing and security gate.

    • Work No. 12— onshore substation compound including—

    • Work No. 12A—

      1. (a)

        up to two cable circuits and associated ducting between Work No. 6 and Work No. 14 including working areas and laydown areas and means of access;

      2. (b)

        up to two cable circuits to be pulled through existing ducts between Work No. 6 and Work No. 14 including working areas and laydown areas and means of access;

      3. (c)

        land re-profiling, groundworks and creation of platforms and foundations;

      4. (d)

        landscaping;

      5. (e)

        drainage works including connections to existing drainage and creation of new sustainable drainage including attenuation pond(s);

      6. (f)

        temporary and permanent means of access including creation and improvement of accesses and visibility splays and vegetation clearance;

      7. (g)

        temporary compounds including working areas and laydown areas; and

      8. (h)

        temporary and permanent ecological and environmental mitigation works including habitat creation.

    • Work No. 12B— cable ducting for two additional cable circuits for later installation of additional electrical connections between Work No. 6 and Work No. 14.

    • Works No. 13— Groundworks, drainage works, outfall and planting including working areas and laydown areas and means of access.

    • Work No. 14— Electrical works to connect to a National Grid substation including—

      1. (a)

        works needed to connect the authorised development to the new National Grid substation including but not limited to cabling, cable sealing ends, circuit breakers, surge arrestors, dis-connectors, transformers, busbars and busbar clamp measuring equipment, relay marshalling rooms and electrical earthing works;

      2. (b)

        connection works comprising up to two buried 400kV cable circuits and associated ducting between Work No. 12 and the National Grid substation including electrical engineering works within and around the National Grid substation buildings and compound;

      3. (c)

        temporary and permanent means of access including creation and improvement of accesses and visibility splays and vegetation clearance;

      4. (d)

        temporary compounds including working areas and laydown areas.

      In connection with Work Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4A, and to the extent that they do not otherwise form part of any such work, further associated development comprising such other works as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of or in connection with the relevant part of the authorised development and which fall within the scope of the work assessed by the environmental statement, including—

      1. (i)

        scour protection around the foundations of the offshore structures;

      2. (ii)

        cable protection measures such as rock placement and the placement of rock and/or concrete mattresses, with or without frond devices;

      3. (iii)

        dredging;

      4. (iv)

        the removal of material from the seabed required for the construction of Work Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4A and the disposal of inert material of natural origin and/or dredged material within the Order limits produced during construction drilling, seabed preparation for the installation of the foundations of the offshore structures, during seabed preparation for cable laying, and excavation of drilling pits for trenchless installation techniques;

      5. (v)

        creation and use of temporary vessel laydown areas, use of cable anchors and buoys;

      6. (vi)

        removal of static fishing equipment; and

      7. (vii)

        lighting,

      and in connection with such Work Nos. 4B, 4C, 4D, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 and to the extent that they do not otherwise form part of any such work, further associated development comprising such other works as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of or in connection with the relevant part of the authorised development and which fall within the scope of the work assessed by the environmental statement, including—

      1. (i)

        haul roads, ramps, watercourse and other temporary crossings, means of access and other vehicular and/or pedestrian means of access, including creation of new tracks and footpaths, and/or widening, upgrades, alterations and improvements of existing roads, tracks and footpaths;

      2. (ii)

        bunds, embankments, swales, landscaping, signage, fencing and boundary treatments and alteration of groynes;

      3. (iii)

        provision of temporary and permanent ecological and environmental mitigation, enhancement and compensation works;

      4. (iv)

        spoil storage and associated control measures;

      5. (v)

        jointing bays, link boxes, cable ducts, works for trenchless installation technique crossings, cable protection, joint protection, manholes, marker posts, underground cable markers, tiles and tape, and lighting and other works associated with laying cables and/or pulling cables through cable ducts;

      6. (vi)

        works for the provision of apparatus including cabling, water and electricity supply works, foul drainage provision, surface water management systems, temporary drainage during installations of cables and culverting;

      7. (vii)

        works to alter the position of apparatus, including mains, sewers, drains and cables;

      8. (viii)

        works to alter the course of, or otherwise interfere with, non-navigable rivers, streams or watercourses;

      9. (ix)

        landscaping works and habitat creation including installation of bird and bat boxes, creation of hibernacula and reinforcement of existing planting to provide habitat;

      10. (x)

        works for the benefit or protection of land affected by the authorised development;

      11. (xi)

        working sites in connection with the carrying out of the authorised development, lay down areas and compounds and storage compounds;

      12. (xii)

        works of restoration;

      13. (xiii)

        fencing or other means of enclosure; and

      14. (xiv)

        such other works as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of or in connection with the relevant part of the authorised development.