# The North Falls Offshore Wind Farm Order 2026, Paragraph 27: Construction monitoring


(1) The undertaker must, in discharging condition 21(1)(f) in respect of construction monitoring, submit a construction monitoring plan or plans for that stage in accordance with the outline offshore in-principle monitoring plan for written approval by the MMO in consultation with the relevant SNCB, which must include details of any proposed construction monitoring, including methodologies and timings, and a proposed format, content and timings for providing reports on the results. The survey proposals must be in accordance with the principles set out in the outline offshore in-principle monitoring plan and must specify the objectives for each survey and explain how the survey will assist in either informing a useful and valid comparison with the pre-construction position and/or will enable the validation or otherwise of key predictions in the environmental statement.
(2) If the plan or plans submitted to the MMO under this condition contain survey proposals, the construction monitoring plan must include, in outline—
(a) vessel traffic monitoring by automatic identification system for the duration of the construction period, with provision for a report to be submitted to the MMO, Trinity House, and the MCA annually during the construction period for the authorised development; and
(b) where piled foundations are to be employed, unless otherwise agreed by the MMO in writing, details of proposed monitoring of the noise generated by the installation of the first four piled foundations of each piled foundation type to be constructed collectively under this licence and the deemed marine licences granted under Schedules 9 and 10 of the Order.
(3) If, in the reasonable opinion of the MMO in consultation with the SNCB the monitoring carried out pursuant to condition 27(2)(b) above shows impacts significantly in excess to those assessed in the environmental statement and there has been a failure of the mitigations set out in the marine mammal mitigation protocol, all piling activity must cease until either contingency measures approved within the marine management mitigation protocol have been implemented or an update to the marine mammal mitigation protocol and further monitoring requirements have been agreed.
(4) The undertaker must carry out the surveys specified within the approved construction monitoring plan or plans in accordance with that plan or plans, and provide the approved reports in the format and to timings approved pursuant to sub-paragraph (1), unless otherwise agreed in writing by the MMO in consultation with the relevant SNCB.
(5) If, in the event that the reports provided under sub-paragraph (4) identify significant effects not previously assessed or beyond those predicted within the Environmental Statement,, an adaptive management plan that aims to reduce effects to within what was predicted in the Environmental Statement, unless otherwise agreed with the MMO in writing, must be submitted to the MMO as soon as reasonably practicable after providing to the MMO the report(s) submitted under sub-paragraph (4). The adaptive management plan must be approved by the MMO in consultation with the relevant SNCB. Any such agreed and approved adaptive management or mitigation should be implemented and monitoring undertaken in full to a timetable first agreed in writing with the MMO. In the event that the adaptive management measures require separate consent, the undertaker shall apply for such consent but only be required to undertake the relevant adaptive management once the consent is granted, with the timetable in the plan adjusted accordingly.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/567/schedule/8/paragraph/27 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/north-falls-offshore-wind-farm-order-2026/schedule-8/paragraph-27
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