The Hornsea One Offshore Wind Farm (Amendment) Order 2017

Made: 23rd March 2017

Coming into force: 24th March 2017

Accordingly, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers in paragraph 2(1) and (9) of Schedule 6 to the Planning Act 2008, makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

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This Order may be cited as the Hornsea One Offshore Wind Farm (Amendment) Order 2017 and comes into force on 24th March 2017.

Amendment to the Hornsea One Offshore Wind Farm Order 2014

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The Hornsea One Offshore Wind Farm Order 2014 (“the 2014 Order”) is amended in accordance with this Order.

Amendments to Part 1 (authorised development) of Schedule 1 (authorised project)

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Part 1 (authorised development) of Schedule 1 (authorised project) is amended as follows—

• (a) in paragraph 2, for “1,200 MW” substitute “1,218 MW”;

• (b) in paragraph 2, for Table 1 substitute the following table:

• (c) in paragraph 2, for Table 2 substitute the following table:

• (d) in paragraph 2, for Table 3 substitute the following table:

Revised plans

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• (1) For the purposes of the 2014 Order, the plans listed in column (1) of the Schedule to this Order must be treated as having been replaced by the plans listed in column (2).

• (2) In the 2014 Order, where a reference to “the offshore works plans” includes a plan listed in column (1) of the Schedule to this Order, that reference must instead be read as including the corresponding plan listed in column (2).

• (3) The Schedule to this Order has effect.

Certification of revised plans

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• (1) The undertaker must, as soon as practicable after the making of this Order, submit copies of the plans listed in column (2) of the Schedule to this Order to the Secretary of State for certification that they are true copies of those plans.

• (2) A plan so certified by the Secretary of State is admissible in any proceedings as evidence of the contents of the document of which it is a copy.

• (3) In paragraph (1), the “undertaker” has the same meaning as in article 2(1) of the 2014 Order.

SCHEDULE — Revised Plans

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Giles Scott — Head of Energy Infrastructure Planning and Coal Liabilities — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy — 23rd March 2017

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends The Hornsea One Offshore Wind Farm Order 2014, a development consent order under the Planning Act 2008, following an application made in accordance with the Infrastructure Planning (Changes to, and Revocation of, Development Consent Orders) Regulations 2011 for a non-material change under paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to the Planning Act 2008. This Order amends some of the definition of the authorised project (see article 3) and substitutes new updated plans (see article 4 and the Schedule).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2008 c. 29, Paragraph 2 was amended by paragraph 4 of Schedule 8 to the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23), by paragraphs 1 and 72 of Schedule 13 to the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), and by section 28 of the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7). There are other amendments to the Act 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. 2014/3331, as amended by S.I. 2015/1280 and S.I. 2016/471.

[^f00004]: S.I. 2011/2055. Regulations 6 and 7 were both amended by S.I. 2012/635 and 2015/760.