# The Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm Order 2014, Paragraph 1: Interpretation Extent: E+W (1) In this licence— “the 2004 Act” means the Energy Act 2004; “the 2008 Act” means the Planning Act 2008; “the 2009 Act” means the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009; “ancillary works” means the ancillary works authorised by paragraph 2(2) of Part 1 of this licence; “Annex I Habitat” means any benthic habitat type listed in Annex 1 of the EU Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora; “authorised deposits” means the substances and articles specified in paragraph 2(4) of Part 1 of this licence; “authorised development” means the works described in paragraph 2(2) of Part 1 of this licence or any part of those works; “CAA” means the Civil Aviation Authority constituted by the Civil Aviation Act 1982; “cable crossings” means the crossing of existing subsea cables by the inter-array and/or export cables authorised by the Order together with cable protection; “cable ducts” means conduits for the installation of cables; “cable protection” means physical measures for the protection of cables including concrete mattresses, with or without frond devices, and/or rock placement; “cables” shall include direct lay cables and/or cables laid in cable ducts and shall include fibre optic cables either within the cable or laid alongside; “cable systems” means the three electrical cables and their respective accessories including cable joints and terminations, with an operating voltage of up to 400kV, necessary to transmit the power between two electrical nodes within the authorised development, and for the offshore element of the cable corridor, comprising subsea export cables, the three cables shall be bundled together as one cable system, and for the onshore element of the cable corridor, the cable system shall comprise three separate onshore cables, each containing a single conductor, and the cable system may also include one or more auxiliary cables (normally fibre optic cables) for the purpose of control, monitoring, protection or general communications; “Cefas” means the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science; “commence” means the first carrying out of any part of the licensed activities, save for pre-construction surveys and/or monitoring and the words “commencement” and “commenced” shall be construed accordingly; “debris” means any material left on the seabed as a result of the licensed works; “Disposal Site” means the designated disposal site identified as IS215 Walney bounded by the Order limits within Point IDs 69 to 100 (inclusively) and Point IDs 216 to 233 (inclusively) described in the table that follows paragraph 2(4) of Part 1 of this licence, which are shown on the Order limits and grid coordinates plan; “enforcement officer” means a person authorised to carry out enforcement duties under Chapter 3 of the 2009 Act; “the environmental statement” means the document certified as the environmental statement by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the Order and submitted with the application on 28th June 2013 together with any supplementary or further environmental information submitted to the Examining authority as part of the examination of the application for the Order; “frond devices” means flow energy dissipation devices, which reduce current velocity and turbulence and encourage settlement of sediment; “Greenwich Mean Time” or means the time measured from the Greenwich Meridian Line at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich; “High Tide” means the state of the tide when it reaches its highest level during a tidal cycle, as may be published from time to time on the United Kingdom Hydrograph Office Admiralty EasyTide Website, or such other publication as may be approved by the MMO; “Hydrographic Office” means the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office of Admiralty Way, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 2DN; “inter-array cable” means the network of offshore subsea cables connecting the WTGs in Work No. 1 with the offshore substations in Work No. 2(a); “Inter-tidal Area” means the area of land between MLW and MHWS at Middleton Sands, Heysham; “jacket structure” means a lattice type structure constructed of steel, which may include scour protection and additional equipment such as, J-tubes, corrosion protection systems and access platform(s); “JNCC” means the Joint Nature Conservation Committee; “the Kingfisher Fortnightly Bulletin” means the bulletin produced by Kingfisher Information Services at the Sea Fish Industry Authority or such other alternative publication approved by the MMO; “LAT” means lowest astronomical tide; “the licence conditions” means the conditions set out in Part 2 of this licence; “licensed activities” means the activities below MHWS specified in Part 1 of this licence; “maintain” includes inspect, repair, adjust, alter, remove, reconstruct and replace any of the authorised development and any derivative of “maintain” shall be construed accordingly; “major storm event” means a greater than 1 in 10 year wave event within the Order limits seaward of MHWS, measured by reference to the height of waves recorded at the nearest wave buoy to the authorised development as agreed with the MMO, and the WaveNet data published by Cefas, or such other means of measurement as may be agreed with the MMO; “the Marine Management Organisation” or “MMO” means the body created under the 2009 Act which is responsible for the monitoring and enforcement of this licence; “the Maritime and Coastguard Agency” or “MCA” means the executive agency of the Department for Transport; “mean high water springs” or “MHWS” means the highest level which spring tides reach on average over a period of time; “mean low water” or “MLW” means the average height of all low water above Chart Datum; “monopile foundation” means a steel cylindrical pile, driven, vibrated and/or drilled into the seabed and may include scour protection and additional equipment such as, J-tubes, corrosion protection systems and access platforms; “Natural England” means the body established by section 1 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006; “notice to mariners” includes any notice to mariners which may be issued by the undertaker, Admiralty, Trinity House, Queen’s harbourmasters, government departments and harbour and pilotage authorities; “offshore substation platform” means a platform with one or more decks, whether open or fully clad, accommodating medium to high voltage electrical power transformers, medium and/or high voltage switch gear, fire fighting facilities, workshop facilities, helicopter landing facilities, potable water storage, black water separation equipment, instrumentation, metering equipment, control systems, standby electrical generation equipment, auxiliary and uninterruptible power supply systems, emergency accommodation including mess facilities, control hub, drainage facilities, access equipment, marking and lighting and other associated equipment and facilities; “the Order” means the Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm Order 2014; “the Order limits” means the limits shown on the Order limits and grid coordinates plan within which the authorised project may be carried out, whose grid coordinates seaward of MHWS are set out in paragraph 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 (authorised project) of the Order; “the Order limits and grid coordinates plan” means the plan certified as the Order limits and grid coordinates plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the Order; “relevant planning authority” means Lancaster City Council or any successor to its statutory functions; “Renewable Energy Zone” means the areas of the sea designated under the Renewable Energy Zone (Designation of Area) Order 2004; “Schedule of Offshore Maintenance Activities” means the document certified as the Schedule of Offshore Maintenance Activities by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the Order; “scour protection” means measures to prevent loss of seabed sediment around any structure placed in or on the seabed by use of protective aprons, mattresses with or without frond devices, or rock and gravel placement; “suction caisson” means a steel cylindrical structure attached to the leg(s) of a jacket structure which partially or fully penetrates the seabed and remains in place using its own weight and hydrostatic pressure differential, and may include scour protection and additional equipment such as J-Tubes; “transition piece” means the metal structure attached to the top of the foundation where the base of the wind turbine generator is connected and may include additional equipment such as J-Tubes, corrosion protection systems, boat access systems, access platform(s), craneage, and associated equipment; “Trinity House” means the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond or any successor to its statutory functions; “undertaker” means in respect of any provision of this licence, DONG Energy Walney Extension (UK) Limited; “vessel” means every description of vessel, however propelled or moved, and includes a non-displacement craft, a personal watercraft, a seaplane on the surface of the water, a hydrofoil vessel, a hovercraft or any other amphibious vehicle and any other thing constructed or adapted for movement through, in, on or over water and which is at the time in, on or over water; “VHF” means very high frequency; “wind turbine generator” or “wind turbine” or “WTG” means a structure comprising a tower, rotor system with three blades, nacelle and ancillary electrical and other equipment which may include lighting, J-tube(s), access and rest platforms, access ladders, access lift, boat access systems, corrosion protection systems, fenders and maintenance equipment, heli-hoist platform and other associated equipment, fixed to a foundation or transition piece; “Work No.” means that part of the authorised development with the corresponding number specified in paragraph 2(2) of Part 1 of this licence; “Work No. 1”— (a) an offshore wind turbine generating station with a gross electrical output capacity of up to 750MW comprising up to 207 wind turbine generators with rotating blades, each fixed to the seabed by one of two foundation types, namely monopile foundation or jacket structure (in conjunction with suction caissons or steel piles), and situated within the coordinates for the Order limits seaward of MHWS and further comprising (b) a network of subsea inter-array cables laid within the Order limits seaward of MHWS between the WTGs and Work No. 2(a), for the transmission of electricity and electronic communications between these different structures, including up to twenty cable crossings; and “the works plan” means the plans certified as the works plans by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the Order. (2) References in this licence to any statute, order, regulation or similar instrument shall be construed as a reference to the statute, order, regulation or instrument as amended by any subsequent statute, order, regulation or instrument or as contained in any subsequent re-enactment. (3) Unless otherwise indicated— (a) all times shall be taken to be Greenwich Mean Time; and (b) all co-ordinates shall be taken to be latitude and longitude degrees, minutes and seconds. (4) Except where otherwise notified in writing by the relevant organisation, the primary point of contact with the organisations listed below and the address for returns and correspondence shall be— (a) Marine Management Organisation Marine Licensing Team Lancaster House Hampshire Court Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 7YH Tel: 0300 123 1032 Email: marine.consents@marinemanagement.org.uk; (b) Marine Management Organisation – Whitehaven office Fish Hall North Harbour North Shore Whitehaven Cumbria CA28 7XY Tel: 01946 591 287 Email: ; (c) Trinity House Tower Hill London EC3N 4DH Tel: 020 7481 6900; (d) The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office Admiralty Way Taunton Somerset TA1 2DN Tel: 01823 337 900; (e) Maritime and Coastguard Agency Navigation Safety Branch Bay 2/04 Spring Place 105 Commercial Road Southampton SO15 1EG Tel: 023 8032 9191; (f) Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT Tel: 01502 562 244; (g) JNCC Inverdee House Baxter Street Aberdeen AB11 9QA; (h) Natural England Foundry House 3 Millsands Riverside Exchange Sheffield S3 8NH Tel: 0845 600 3078; (i) Natural England – North West Regional Office Juniper House Murley Moss Oxenholme Road Kendal Cumbria LA9 7RL Tel: 0300 060 2122. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2950/schedule/10/part/1/paragraph/1 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/walney-extension-offshore-wind-farm-order-2014/schedule-10/part-1/paragraph-1 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.