The Galloper Wind Farm (Amendment) Order 2015

Made: 2nd July 2015

Coming into force: 3rd July 2015

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 153 of, and paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to, the Act, makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

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This Order may be cited as the Galloper Wind Farm (Amendment) Order 2015 and comes into force on 3rd July 2015.

Amendment to the Galloper Wind Farm Order 2013

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• (1) The Galloper Wind Farm Order 2013 is amended as follows.

• (2) In Part 3 of Schedule 1, in paragraph 8(1), for “7 metres” substitute “7.5 metres”.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

Giles Scott — Head of National Infrastructure Consents and Coal Liabilities — Department of Energy and Climate Change — 2nd July 2015

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Galloper Wind Farm Order 2013, a development consent order under the Planning Act 2008, following an application under paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to that Act for a non-material change to increase the diameter of the monopile foundations from 7.0 metres to 7.5 metres in order to allow the foundations to meet the requirements needed to satisfy the turbine design limits. The change to the Order takes effect from the date specified in the Order.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2008 c.29. Paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 was amended by paragraph 72 of Schedule 13 to the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20). There are other amendments to paragraph 2 that are not relevant to this Order.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2011/2055, as amended by S.I. 2012/635 and S.I. 2015/760.

[^f00003]: S.I. 2013/1203, as amended by S.I. 2013/2086.