{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rampion-offshore-wind-farm-order-2014/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rampion-offshore-wind-farm-order-2014/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1873",
  "legislation_title": "The Rampion Offshore Wind Farm Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rampion-offshore-wind-farm-order-2014",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order grants development consent for, and authorises E.ON Climate & Renewables UK Rampion Offshore Wind Limited to construct, operate and maintain a generating station on the bed of the English Channel approximately 13 km from the Sussex coast, together with all necessary and associated development. For the purposes of the development that it authorises, E.ON Climate & Renewables UK Rampion Offshore Wind Limited is authorised by the Order compulsorily or by agreement to purchase land and rights in land to use land, as well as to override easements and other rights. The Order also provides a defence in proceedings in respect of statutory nuisance and to discharge water. The Order imposes requirements in connection with the development for which it grants development consent.\nThe Order also deems to be granted marine licences for the marine licensable activities, being the deposit of substances and articles and the carrying out of works involved in the construction of the generating station and associated development. The deemed marine licences impose conditions in connection with the deposits and works for which they grant consent.\nA copy of the plans and book of reference referred to in this Order and certified in accordance with article 40 (certification of plans, etc) of this Order may be inspected free of charge at the offices of Brighton and Hove City Council at Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ, and Mid Sussex District Council at Mid Sussex District Council Planning Offices, Oaklands Road, Haywards Heath, RH16 1SS.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1873/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:09:38.375631+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."
}