The Dogger Bank Creyke Beck Offshore Wind Farm (Amendment) Order 2020

Made: 20th March 2020

Coming into force: 23rd March 2020

Accordingly, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers in paragraph 2 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 Dogger Bank Creyke Beck Offshore Wind Farm (Amendment) Order 2020 and comes into force on 23rd March 2020.

Amendment to the Dogger Bank Creyke Beck Offshore Wind Farm Order 2015

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The Dogger Bank Creyke Beck Offshore Wind Farm Order 2015 is amended in accordance with this Order.

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

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• (1) Part 1 (Authorised development) of Schedule 1 (Authorised project), is amended as follows.

• (2) In the description of Project A offshore works, in paragraph (a) of the description of Work No. 1A, for “up to 1.2 gigawatts”, substitute “more than 100 megawatts”.

• (3) In the description of Project B offshore works, in paragraph (a) of the description of Work No. 1B, for “up to 1.2 gigawatts” substitute “more than 100 megawatts”.

Amendment to Part 3 (Requirements) of Schedule 1 (Authorised project)

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• (1) Part 3 (Requirements) of Schedule 1 (Authorised project) is amended as follows.

• (2) In paragraph 4(2), for the words “must be of such a size that if they were installed to the maximum permitted gross generating capacity specified for those works the total rotor-swept area for each Work No. would not exceed 4.35 square kilometres”, substitute “must not exceed a total rotor-swept area for each Work No. of 4.35 square kilometres”.

Signed

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

Emily Bourne — Director Energy Development and Resilience — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy — 20th March 2020

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Dogger Bank Creyke Beck Offshore Wind Farm Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/318), a development consent order under the Planning Act 2008 (c. 29), following an application made in accordance with the Infrastructure Planning (Changes to, and Revocation of, Development Consent Orders) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2055) for a non-material change under paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to the Planning Act 2008. This Order removes reference to a specific permitted electrical output capacity.

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. 2015/318, as amended by S.I. 2015/1742 and S.I. 2019/838.