Paragraph 2 Details of licensed marine activitiesI1

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

This licence authorises the undertaker (and any agent or contractor acting on their behalf) to carry out the following licensable marine activities under section 66(1) of the 2009 Act, subject to the conditions—

(a)

the deposit at sea of the substances and articles specified in sub-paragraph (3) below;

(b)

the construction of works in or over the sea and/or on or under the sea bed;

(c)

the removal of sediment samples for the purposes of informing environmental monitoring under this licence during pre-construction, construction and operation.

(2)

The works referred to in (1)(b) comprise—

Work No. 3A – A connection or connections between the offshore substations comprising Work No. 2 and between Work No. 2 and MHWS consisting of cables laid underground along routes within the Order limits seaward of MHWS and including one or more cable crossings;

and in connection with such Work No. 3A 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 project and which fall within the scope of the work assessed by the environmental statement and the provisions of this licence;

and in connection with such Work No. 3A, works comprising—

(a)

temporary landing places or other means of accommodating vessels in the construction and/or maintenance of the authorised scheme; and

(b)

buoys, beacons, fenders and other navigational warning or ship impact protection works.

(3)

The substances or articles authorised for deposit at sea are—

(a)

steel, copper and aluminium;

(b)

stone and rock;

(c)

concrete;

(d)

sand and gravel;

(e)

plastic and synthetic;

(f)

material extracted from within the Order limits seaward of MHWS during construction drilling or seabed preparation;

(g)

marine coatings, other chemicals (where in accordance with condition 5(1)) and timber.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 14 Pt. 1 para. 2 in force at 6.8.2014, see art. 1