The Mona Offshore Wind Farm Order 2025

Type Statutory-Instrument
Publication 2025-07-04
Last updated 2025-10-24
State In force
Department King's Printer of Acts of Parliament
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  • (3) An offshore operations and maintenance plan in accordance with the outline offshore operations and maintenance plan must be submitted to the licensing authority for approval in writing at least four months prior to commencement of the operation of licensed activities and be provided for review and resubmission every three years during the operational phase. Maintenance must be carried out in accordance with the approved plans.

Extension of time periods

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Any time period given in this marine licence to the undertaker may be extended with the agreement of the licensing authority, such agreement not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed.

Notifications and inspections

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  • (1) The undertaker must ensure that—
  • (a) a copy of this marine licence (issued as part of the grant of the Order) and any subsequent amendments or revisions to it is provided to—
  • (i) all agents and contractors notified to the licensing authority in accordance with condition 22; and
  • (ii) the masters and transport managers responsible for the vessels notified to the licensing authority in accordance with condition 22.
  • (2) Only those persons and vessels notified to the licensing authority in accordance with condition 22 are permitted to carry out the licensed marine activities.
  • (3) Copies of this marine licence must also be available for inspection at the following locations—
  • (a) the undertaker’s registered address;
  • (b) any site office located at or adjacent to the construction site and used by the undertaker or its agents and contractors responsible for the loading, transportation or deposit of the authorised deposits; and
  • (c) on board each vessel and at the office of any transport manager with responsibility for vessels from which authorised deposits or removals are to be made.
  • (4) The information referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a) must be available for inspection by officers appropriately authorised by the licensing authority and authorised MEOs at the locations set out in sub-paragraph (3)(b).
  • (5) The undertaker must provide access, and if necessary appropriate transportation, to the offshore construction site or any other associated works or vessels to facilitate any inspection that the licensing authority or the MEO considers necessary to inspect the works during the construction and operation of the authorised scheme.
  • (6) The undertaker must inform the licensing authority and the MEO in writing at least 10 days prior to the commencement of the authorised scheme or any part of them and within 10 days of the completion of the construction of the authorised scheme.
  • (7) The undertaker must inform the Kingfisher Information Service of Seafish by email to kingfisher@seafish.co.uk of details of the vessel routes, timings and locations relating to the construction of the authorised scheme or relevant part—
  • (a) at least 14 days prior to the commencement of licenced marine activities, for inclusion in the Kingfisher Fortnightly Bulletin and offshore hazard awareness data;
  • (b) as soon as reasonably practicable and no later than 24 hours following completion of the construction of the authorised scheme,

and confirmation of notification must be provided to the licensing authority within five days.

  • (8) The undertaker must ensure that a local notification to mariners is issued at least 14 days prior to any of the non-intrusive pre-construction surveys, unexploded ordnance surveys and low order unexploded ordnance clearance taking place and prior to the commencement of the authorised scheme or any part thereof advising of its start date and the expected vessel routes from the construction ports to the relevant location. Copies of all notices must be provided to the licensing authority, MCA, Trinity House and UKHO within five days of the notifications being sent.
  • (9) The undertaker must ensure that local notifications to mariners are updated and reissued at regular intervals during the pre-construction surveys, unexploded ordnance surveys low order unexploded ordnance clearance and construction activities and at least five days before any planned operations and maintenance works (or otherwise agreed) and supplemented with VHF radio broadcasts agreed with the MCA in accordance with the construction programme approved under condition 17(1)(b). Copies of all notices must be provided to the licensing authority, and UKHO within five days of the notification being sent.
  • (10) The undertaker must notify UKHO within 14 days of completion of the construction of the authorised scheme or any part thereof in order that all necessary amendments to nautical charts are made. Copies of all notices must be provided to the licensing authority, the MEO, and MCA within five days of the notification being sent.
  • (11) In case of damage to, or destruction or decay of, the authorised scheme or any part thereof, excluding the exposure of cables and cable faults, the undertaker must as soon as reasonably practicable and no later than 24 hours following the undertaker becoming aware of any such damage, destruction or decay, notify the licensing authority, the MEO, MCA, Trinity House, the Kingfisher Information Service of Seafish, UKHO and the regional fisheries contact.
  • (12) In case of buried cables becoming exposed on or above the seabed, the undertaker must within three days following identification of exposure of cables or cable faults, notify regional fisheries contacts and inform the Kingfisher Information Service of Seafish of the location and extent of exposure or cable faults. Copies of all such notices must be provided to the licensing authority, the MEO, MCA, Trinity House, and UKHO within five days of the notification being sent.

Colouring of structures

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  • (1) Except as otherwise required by Trinity House the undertaker must paint all structures forming part of the authorised scheme yellow (colour code RAL 1023) from at least HAT to a height as directed by Trinity House.
  • (2) Unless the licensing authority otherwise directs, the undertaker must paint the remainder of the structures forming part of the authorised scheme grey (colour code RAL 7035).

Aids to navigation

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  • (1) The undertaker must during the period from commencement of construction of the authorised scheme to completion of decommissioning of the authorised scheme exhibit such lights, marks, sounds, signals and other aids to navigation, and take such other steps for the prevention of danger to navigation as Trinity House may from time to time direct.
  • (2) The undertaker must during the whole period from commencement of construction of the authorised scheme to completion of decommissioning of the authorised scheme keep Trinity House and the licensing authority informed of progress of the authorised scheme including—
  • (a) notice of commencement of construction of the authorised project within 24 hours of commencement having occurred;
  • (b) notice within 24 hours of any aids to navigation being established by the undertaker; and
  • (c) notice within five days of completion of construction of the authorised project.
  • (3) The undertaker must provide reports to Trinity House on the availability of aids to navigation in accordance with the frequencies set out in the aids to navigation management plan agreed pursuant to condition 17(1)(g) using the reporting system provided by Trinity House or otherwise agreed in writing.
  • (4) The undertaker must during the whole period from commencement of the authorised scheme to completion of decommissioning of the authorised scheme notify Trinity House and the licensing authority of any failure of the aids to navigation and the timescales and plans for remedying such failures, as soon as possible and no later than 24 hours following the undertaker becoming aware of any such failure.
  • (5) In the event that the provisions of conditions 12(11) or 12(12) are invoked, the undertaker must lay down such buoys, exhibit such lights and take such other steps for preventing danger to navigation as directed by Trinity House.

Chemicals, drilling and debris

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  • (1) Unless otherwise agreed in writing by the licensing authority, the carriage and use of chemicals in the construction of the authorised scheme must comply with the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships of 1997.
  • (2) The undertaker must ensure that any coatings and treatments are suitable for use in the marine environment and are used in accordance with recognised best practice.
  • (3) The storage, handling, transport and use of fuels, lubricants, chemicals and other substances must be undertaken so as to prevent releases into the marine environment, including bunding of 110 percent of the total volume of all reservoirs and containers.
  • (4) The undertaker must inform the licensing authority in writing of the time, date, location and quantities of material disposed of each month under this licence by submission of a disposal return by 31 January each year for the months July to December inclusive, and by 31 July each year for the months January to June inclusive.
  • (5) The undertaker must ensure that only inert material of natural origin, produced during the drilling installation of or seabed preparation for foundations, and drilling mud is disposed of within the Order limits.
  • (6) The undertaker must ensure that any rock material used in the construction of the authorised scheme is from a recognised source, free from contaminants and containing minimal fines.
  • (7) The undertaker must ensure that no waste concrete slurry or wash water from concrete or cement works are discharged into the marine environment. Concrete and cement mixing and washing areas must be contained to prevent run off entering the water through the freeing ports.
  • (8) The undertaker must ensure that any oil, fuel or chemical spill within the marine environment is reported to the licensing authority in accordance with the marine pollution contingency plan agreed under condition 17(1)(e)(i).

Force majeure and dropped objects

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  • (1) All dropped objects, materials and deposits must be notified to the licencing authority in accordance with the dropped objects plan and if—
  • (a) due to stress of weather or any other cause, the master of a vessel determines that it is necessary to deposit the authorised deposits within or outside of the Order limits because the safety of human life or if the vessel is threatened, within 48 hours the undertaker must notify full details of the circumstances of the deposit to the licensing authority, the MEO, Trinity House and the MCA; or
  • (b) any rock material used in the construction of the authorised scheme is misplaced or lost within the Order limits, the undertaker must report the loss in writing to the licencing authority, the MEO, Trinity House and the MCA within 48 hours of becoming aware of it.
  • (2) If the licencing authority considers such objects, materials or deposits notified pursuant to paragraph (1) constitute a navigation or environmental hazard (dependent on the size and nature of the material) the undertaker must locate the relevant object, material or deposit and recover it at its own expense unless otherwise approved in writing by the licencing authority.
  • (3) On receipt of a notice pursuant to paragraph (1) the licencing authority may require relevant surveys to be carried out by the undertaker (such as side scan sonar) at the undertaker’s expense.

Pre-construction plans and documentation

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  • (1) No part of the authorised scheme may commence until the following (insofar as relevant to that activity or phase of activity) have been submitted to and approved in writing by the licensing authority (in consultation with the relevant statutory historic body, the statutory nature conservation body, Trinity House or the MCA as appropriate)—
  • (a) a design plan at a scale of between 1:25,000 and 1:50,000 in accordance with the layout principles, including detailed representation on the most suitably scaled admiralty chart, setting out proposed details of the authorised scheme, including the:
  • (i) number, dimensions, specification, foundation type(s) and depth for each wind turbine generator and offshore substation platform;
  • (ii) confirmation of whether Work No. 1 (c) and (d) are to be constructed under this marine licence;
  • (iii) the proposed layout of all wind turbine generators and offshore substation platforms (which shall be in accordance with the recommendations for layout contained in MGN654 and its annexes), including grid coordinates of the centre point of the proposed location for each wind turbine generator and offshore substation platform subject to up to 55 metre micro-siting in any direction unless otherwise agreed in writing with the licensing authority in consultation with the MCA and Trinity House;
  • (iv) proposed layout of all cables;
  • (v) location and specification of all other aspects of the authorised scheme; and
  • (vi) any archaeological exclusion zones;

to ensure conformity with the description of Work No. 1 and compliance with conditions 9 and 10 and any wake effects plan approved by the Secretary of State in accordance with requirement 29;

  • (b) a construction programme to include details of—
  • (i) the proposed date of commencement of the authorised scheme;
  • (ii) proposed timings for mobilisation of plant delivery of materials and installation works;
  • (iii) an indicative written construction programme for all wind turbine generators and offshore substation platforms forming part of the authorised scheme and licensed marine activities;
  • (c) a monitoring plan in accordance with the offshore in-principle monitoring plan and including details of proposed pre-construction surveys, baseline report format and content, construction monitoring, post-construction monitoring and related reporting in accordance with conditions 23, 24, 25 to be submitted to the licensing authority in accordance with the following unless otherwise agreed in writing with the licensing authority—
  • (i) at least four months prior to the first survey, detail of the pre-construction surveys and an outline of all proposed monitoring;
  • (ii) at least four months prior to commencement of construction, detail on construction monitoring;
  • (iii) at least four months prior to the authorised scheme being brought into commercial operation scheme, details of post-construction monitoring, if required;
  • (d) an offshore construction method statement in accordance with the construction methods assessed in the environmental statement, including details of—
  • (i) cable specification, installation and monitoring, to include—
  • (aa) the technical specification of the inter-array cables and interconnector cables as relevant;
  • (bb) a detailed cable specification and installation plan for the authorised scheme, incorporating a cable burial risk assessment encompassing the identification of any cable protection that exceeds 5 percent of navigable depth referenced to Chart Datum and, in the event that any area of cable protection exceeding 5 percent of navigable depth is identified details of any steps (to be determined following consultation with the MCA and Trinity House) to be taken to ensure existing and future safe navigation is not compromised or similar, such assessment to ascertain suitable burial depths and cable laying techniques including cable protection; and
  • (cc) details of cable monitoring including details of cable protection until the authorised scheme is decommissioned which includes a risk-based approach to the management of unburied or shallow buried cables;
  • (ii) scour protection management and cable protection management including details of the need, type, sources, quantity and installation methods for scour protection and cable protection, (with details updated and resubmitted for approval if changes to scour and cable protection management are proposed following cable laying operations);
  • (iii) foundation installation methodology, including drilling methods and disposal of drill arisings and material extracted during seabed preparation for foundation and cable installation works;
  • (iv) contractors;
  • (v) associated ancillary works; and
  • (vi) guard vessels to be employed;
  • (e) an offshore environmental management plan covering the period of construction and operation to include details of—
  • (i) a marine pollution contingency plan to address the risks, methods and procedures to deal with any spills and collision incidents during construction and operation of the authorised scheme in relation to all activities carried out;
  • (ii) a chemical risk assessment, including information regarding how and when chemicals are to be used, stored and transported in accordance with recognised best practice guidance;
  • (iii) waste management and disposal arrangements;
  • (iv) the appointment and responsibilities of a fisheries liaison officer;
  • (v) a fisheries liaison and coexistence plan in accordance with the outline fisheries liaison and co-existence plan, to ensure relevant fishing fleets are notified of commencement of the authorised scheme pursuant to condition 12(8) and to address the interaction of the construction of the authorised scheme with fishing activities;
  • (vi) measures to minimise disturbance to marine mammals and rafting birds from transiting vessels; and
  • (vii) measures to minimise the potential spread of invasive non-native species;
  • (f) an offshore written scheme of investigation for archaeology and protocol for archaeological discoveries in relation to the Order limits, in accordance with the outline offshore written scheme of investigation and protocol for archaeological discoveries and industry good practice and including—
  • (i) details of responsibilities of the undertaker, archaeological consultant and contractor;
  • (ii) a methodology for further site investigation including any specifications for geophysical, geotechnical and diver or remotely operated vehicle investigations;
  • (iii) archaeological analysis of survey data, and timetable for reporting, which is to be submitted to the licensing authority within four months of any survey being completed;
  • (iv) delivery of any mitigation including, where necessary, identification and modification of archaeological exclusion zones;
  • (v) monitoring of archaeological exclusion zones during and post construction where required;
  • (vi) a requirement for the undertaker to ensure that a copy of any agreed archaeological report is deposited with the National Record of the Historic Environment, by submitting an OASIS (Online Access to the Index of archaeological investigations) form with a digital copy of the report within six months of completion of construction of the authorised scheme, and to notify the licensing authority that the OASIS form has been submitted to the National Record of the Historic Environment within two weeks of submission;
  • (vii) a reporting and recording protocol, including reporting of any wreck or wreck material during construction, operation and maintenance of the authorised scheme; and
  • (viii) a timetable for all further site investigations, which must allow sufficient opportunity to establish a full understanding of the historic environment within the offshore Order limits and the approval of any necessary mitigation required as a result of the further site investigations prior to commencement of construction of the authorised scheme;
  • (g) an aids to navigation management plan specifying how the undertaker will ensure compliance with condition 14 from the commencement of construction of the authorised scheme to the completion of decommissioning of the authorised scheme;
  • (h) in the event that driven or part-driven pile foundations are proposed to be used, a marine mammal mitigation protocol in accordance with the outline marine mammal mitigation protocol, the intention of which is to prevent injury to marine mammals, following current best practice as advised by the statutory nature conservation body;
  • (i) a dropped objects plan;
  • (j) a vessel traffic management plan in accordance with the outline vessel traffic management plan;
  • (k) a vessel traffic monitoring strategy in accordance with the offshore in-principle monitoring plan; and
  • (l) a compliance report in respect of the conditions to be discharged.

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  • (1) Each programme, statement, plan, protocol or scheme required to be approved under condition 17 must be submitted for approval at least four months before the intended commencement of licensed marine activities, except where otherwise stated or unless otherwise agreed in writing by the licensing authority.
  • (2) The licensed marine activities must be carried out in accordance with the plans, protocols, statements, schemes and details approved under condition 17, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the licensing authority.

Underwater Sound Management Strategy

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  • (1) No piling activities or low order unexploded ordnance clearance can commence until for those activities an underwater sound management strategy in accordance with the outline underwater sound management strategy has been submitted to and approved in writing by the licencing authority in consultation with the statutory nature conservation body.
  • (2) The underwater sound management strategy must be submitted to the licensing authority no later than four months prior to the commencement of the relevant activities unless otherwise agreed in writing by the licensing authority.
  • (3) Piling activities or low order unexploded ordnance clearance must be carried out in accordance with the approved underwater sound management strategy, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the licensing authority.

Low order unexploded ordnance clearance

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  • (1) No low order unexploded ordnance clearance activities can commence until for those activities the following have been submitted to and approved in writing by the licensing authority in consultation with the statutory nature conservation body and, in respect of the method statement, the MCA—
  • (a) a method statement for low order unexploded ordnance clearance which must include—
  • (i) methodologies for—
  • (aa) identification and investigation of potential unexploded ordnance targets;
  • (bb) low order unexploded ordnance clearance;
  • (cc) removal and disposal of large debris;
  • (ii) a plan showing the area in which clearance activities are proposed to take place;
  • (iii) confirmation of the total number of unexploded ordnance to be cleared under this licence using low order methods;
  • (iv) a programme of works; and
  • (v) any exclusion zones and/or environmental micrositing requirements;
  • (b) a specific offshore written scheme of investigation and protocol for archaeological discoveries (which must accord with the details set out in the outline offshore written scheme of investigation and protocol for archaeological discoveries); and
  • (c) a marine mammal mitigation protocol in accordance with the outline marine mammal mitigation protocol, the intention of which is to prevent injury to marine mammals, following current best practice as advised by the statutory nature conservation body.
  • (2) The method statement and the marine mammal mitigation protocol must be submitted to the licensing authority for approval at least four months prior to the date on which unexploded ordnance clearance activities are intended to commence.
  • (3) Any unexploded ordnance clearance activities must be undertaken in accordance with the method statement and marine mammal mitigation protocol approved under paragraph (1) and must not give rise to any materially new or materially different environmental effects to those identified in the environmental statement.
  • (4) Subject to paragraph (6), an unexploded ordnance close-out report must be submitted to the licensing authority and the statutory nature conservation body within three months following the end of the unexploded ordnance clearance activity and must include the following for each clearance undertaken—
  • (a) co-ordinates, depth, current speed, charge utilised and the date and time of each clearance; and
  • (b) whether any mitigation was deployed including feedback on practicalities of deployment of equipment and efficacy of the mitigation where reasonably practicable, or justification if this information is not available.
  • (5) Should there be more than one unexploded ordnance clearance activity, the report required under paragraph (5) will be provided at intervals agreed with the licensing authority.
  • (6) No high order unexploded ordnance clearance is permitted by this marine licence.
  • (7) The total number of unexploded ordnance to be cleared under this licence using low order methods must not exceed 22.

Offshore safety management

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No part of the authorised project may commence until the licencing authority, in consultation with the MCA, has approved in writing that a Search and Rescue checklist has been agreed and is in place in line the requirements of MGN654 “Offshore Renewable Energy Installations (OREIs) – Guidance on UK Navigational Practice, Safety and Emergency Response” (or any successor document).

Reporting of engaged agents, contractors and vessels

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  • (1) The undertaker must provide the name, function, company number (if applicable), registered or head office address (as appropriate) of any agent or contractor appointed to engage in the licensed marine activities within seven days of appointment in writing to the licencing authority and the MEO.
  • (2) The undertaker must notify the licencing authority and the MEO in writing of any vessel being used to carry on any licensed marine activity listed in this licence on behalf of the undertaker. Such notification must be received by the licencing authority and the MEO no less than 24 hours before the commencement of the licensed marine activity. Notification must include the master’s name, vessel type, vessel IMO number and vessel owner or operating company.
  • (3) Any changes to the supplied details must be notified to the licencing authority and the MEO in writing at least 24 hours before the agent, contractor or vessel engages in the licensed marine activities.

Pre-construction surveys

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  • (1) The undertaker must, in discharging condition 17(1)(c) submit a monitoring plan or plans in accordance with the offshore in-principle monitoring plan for written approval by the licensing authority in consultation with the statutory nature conservation body, which must contain details of proposed pre-construction surveys, including methodologies and timings, and a proposed format and content for a pre-construction baseline report.
  • (2) The survey proposals submitted under paragraph (1) must be in general accordance with the principles set out in the offshore in-principle monitoring plan and must specify each survey’s objectives and explain how it will assist in either informing a useful and valid comparison with the post-construction position or will enable the validation or otherwise of key predictions in the environmental statement.
  • (3) The baseline report proposals submitted under paragraph (1) must ensure that the outcome of the agreed surveys, together with existing data and reports, are drawn together to present a valid statement of the pre-construction position, with any limitations, and must make clear what post-construction comparison is intended and the justification for this being required.
  • (4) The pre-construction surveys referred to in paragraph (1) must, unless otherwise agreed with the licensing authority, have due regard to, but not be limited to, the need to undertake a swath-bathymetry survey to IHO Order 1a standard that meets the requirements of MGN654 and its supporting Hydrographic Guidelines for Offshore Renewable Energy Developers, which includes the requirement for the full density data and reports to be delivered to the MCA and the UKHO for the update of nautical charts and publications, and side scan sonar, of the area(s) within the Order limits in which it is proposed to carry out construction works including an appropriate buffer area around the location of each work.
  • (5) The undertaker must carry out the surveys specified within the monitoring plan or plans in accordance with that plan or plans, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the licensing authority in consultation with the statutory nature conservation body.

Construction monitoring

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  • (1) The undertaker must, in discharging condition 17(1)(c), submit details (which accord with the offshore in-principle monitoring plan) for approval in writing by the licensing authority in consultation with the relevant statutory nature conservation bodies of any proposed construction monitoring, including methodologies and timings, to be carried out during the construction of the authorised scheme. The monitoring proposals must specify each monitoring proposal’s objectives.
  • (2) In the event that driven or part-driven pile foundations are proposed, such monitoring must include measurements of underwater sound generated by the installation of the first four piled foundations of each piled foundation type to be installed unless the licensing authority otherwise agrees in writing.
  • (3) The undertaker must carry out the monitoring approved under paragraph (1), including any further underwater sound monitoring required in writing by the licensing authority, and provide the agreed reports in the agreed format in accordance with the agreed timetable, unless otherwise agreed in writing with the licensing authority in consultation with the relevant statutory nature conservation bodies.
  • (4) The results of the initial underwater sound measurements monitored in accordance with paragraph (2) must be provided to the licensing authority within six weeks of the installation of the first four piled foundations. The assessment of this report by the licensing authority will determine whether any further underwater sound monitoring is required. If, in the reasonable opinion of the licensing authority in consultation with the statutory nature conservation body, the assessment shows significantly different underwater sound modelling results to those predicted and assessed in the environmental statement or failures in mitigation, all piling activity must cease until an update to the marine mammal mitigation protocol and further monitoring requirements have been agreed.
  • (5) The undertaker must carry out the surveys specified in the monitoring plan in accordance with that plan, including any further underwater sound monitoring required in writing by the licensing authority under paragraph (4), unless otherwise agreed in writing by the licensing authority in consultation with the statutory nature conservation body.
  • (6) In the event that piled foundations are proposed to be used, the details submitted in accordance with the marine mammal mitigation protocol must include proposals for monitoring marine mammals.
  • (7) The undertaker must in discharging condition 17(1)(k) submit a vessel traffic monitoring strategy, in accordance with the offshore in-principle monitoring plan, including the provision of reports on the results of that monitoring at the end of each year of the construction period to the licensing authority, MCA and Trinity House and undertake construction monitoring in accordance with the vessel traffic monitoring strategy.

Post-construction monitoring

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  • (1) The undertaker must, in discharging condition 17(1)(c) submit details (which accord with the offshore in-principle monitoring plan) for approval in writing by the licensing authority in consultation with the statutory nature conservation body of proposed post-construction monitoring, including methodologies and timings, and a proposed format, content and timings for providing reports on the results.
  • (2) The monitoring proposals must specify each monitoring proposal’s objectives and explain how it will assist in either informing a useful and valid comparison with the pre-construction position and/or will enable the validation or otherwise of key predictions in the environmental statement.
  • (3) The post-construction monitoring referred to in paragraph (1) must, unless otherwise agreed in writing with the licensing authority, have due regard to, but not be limited to, the need to undertake, within 12 months of completion of the construction of the authorised project, a full sea floor coverage swath-bathymetry survey that meets the requirements of MGN 654 and its annexes, and side scan sonar, of the area(s) within the Order limits in which construction works were carried out to assess any changes in bedform topography and such further monitoring or assessment as may be agreed to ensure that cables (including fibre optic cables) have been buried or protected.
  • (4) The undertaker must in discharging condition 17(1)(k) submit a vessel traffic monitoring strategy in accordance with the offshore in-principle monitoring plan including the provision of reports on the results of that monitoring to the licencing authority, MCA and Trinity House and undertake post-construction monitoring in accordance with the vessel traffic monitoring strategy.
  • (5) The undertaker must carry out the monitoring agreed under paragraph (1) and provide the agreed reports to the licensing authority in the agreed format in accordance with the agreed timetable unless otherwise agreed in writing with the licensing authority in consultation with the statutory nature conservation body.
  • (6) Following the installation of cables, details of cable monitoring required under 17(1)(d) must be updated with the results of the post installation surveys. The construction method statement must be implemented until the authorised scheme is implemented and reviewed as specified within the construction method statement, following cable burial surveys, or as instructed by the licensing authority.

Reporting of scour and cable protection

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  • (1) Not more than four months following completion of the construction of the authorised scheme, the undertaker must provide the licensing authority and the statutory nature conservation body with a report setting out details of the cable protection and scour protection used for the authorised scheme.
  • (2) The report must include the following information—
  • (a) the location of cable protection and scour protection;
  • (b) the volume of cable protection and scour protection; and
  • (c) any other information relating to the cable protection and scour protection as agreed between the licensing authority and the undertaker.

Completion of construction

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  • (1) The undertaker must submit a close-out report to the licensing authority, MCA, Trinity House, UKHO and the statutory nature conservation body within four months of the date of completion of construction of the authorised scheme. The close out report must confirm the date of completion of construction of the authorised scheme and must include the following details—
  • (a) the final number of installed wind turbine generators;
  • (b) the installed wind turbine generator parameters;
  • (c) as built plans;
  • (d) latitude and longitude coordinates of the centre point of the location for each wind turbine generator and offshore substation platform provided as Geographical Information System data referenced to WGS84 datum; and
  • (e) latitude and longitude coordinates of the inter-array and interconnector cables; provided as Geographical Information System data referenced to WGS84 datum.
  • (2) Following completion of construction of the authorised scheme, no further construction activities can be undertaken under this licence.

Marine Noise Registry

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  • (1) Where driven or part-driven pile foundations are proposed to be installed the undertaker must at least 10 days prior to the start of those activities, submit details including the expected location of the activities and the start and end dates of the activities to the Marine Noise Registry to satisfy the Forward Look requirements and update that information as required if the expected location or start and end dates change.
  • (2) On the six month anniversary following the start of pile driving the undertaker must submit information on the locations and dates of those activities to the Marine Noise Registry to satisfy the Close Out requirements until completion of those activities.
  • (3) Notwithstanding paragraph (2) within 8 weeks of the completion of pile driving the undertaker must submit information on the locations and dates of those activities to satisfy the Close Out requirements:
  • (4) The undertaker must notify the licensing authority of the successful submission of Forward Look or Close Out information pursuant to paragraphs (1) to (3) above within seven days of the submissions to the Marine Noise Registry.
  • (5) For the purpose of this condition—
  • (a) “Marine Noise Registry” means the database of impulsive noise generating activities in UK seas maintained by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee;
  • (b) “Forward Look” and “Close Out” requirements are as set out in the ‘UK Marine Noise Registry: Information Document, Version 1 (May 2016)’ or any updated information document.

Requirement for written approval

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Where under any of the above conditions the approval or agreement of the licensing authority is required, that approval or agreement must be given in writing.

SCHEDULE 15 — Documents to be certified

The following documents, including those listed in Table 5, are the list referred to in article 41—

Document Reference Number Planning Inspectorate Reference Document Name Revision Date
B1 REP6-004 Location plan F02 December 2024
B2 REP6-005 Offshore Order Limits and Grid Coordinates Plan F04 December 2024
B3 REP6-006 Works Plan - Onshore F03 December 2024
B4 AS-004 Works Plans - Offshore and Intertidal F02 April 2024
B5 REP7-004 Land Plan (Onshore) F05 January 2025
B6 REP7-005 Crown Land Plan (Onshore) F04 January 2025
B7 REP7-006 Special Category Land Plan F04 January 2025
B14 REP6-012 Tree and Hedgerow Plan F04 December 2024
B15 REP6-013 Street Works and Access to Works Plan F03 December 2024
B16 REP6-014 Temporary stopping up of Public Rights of Way Plan F03 December 2024
D4 REP7-014 Book of Reference F07 January 2025
Document Reference Number Planning Inspectorate Reference Document Name Revision Date
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F1 REP7-024 Non-Technical Summary - Welsh F02 January 2025
F1 REP7-025 Non-Technical Summary – English F02 January 2025
F1.1 REP7-026 Volume 1, Chapter 4: Introduction and overarching glossary F02 January 2025
F1.2 APP-049 Volume 1, Chapter 2: Policy and Legislative Context F01 February 2024
F1.3 REP7-027 Volume 1, Chapter 3: Project Description F02 January 2025
F1.4 REP7-029 Volume 1, Chapter 4: Site Selection and Consideration of Alternatives F03 January 2025
F1.5 APP-052 Volume 1, Chapter 5: Environmental Impact Assessment Methodology F01 February 2024
F2.1 APP-053 Volume 2, Chapter 1: Physical Processes F01 February 2024
F2.2 REP7-030 Volume 2, Chapter 2: Benthic Subtidal and Intertidal Ecology F02 January 2025
F2.3 REP7-031 Volume 2, Chapter 3: Fish and Shellfish Ecology F02 January 2025
F2.4 REP7-032 Volume 2, Chapter 4: Marine Mammals F02 January 2025
F2.5 REP7-033 Volume 2, Chapter 5: Offshore Ornithology F03 January 2025
F2.6 APP-058 Volume 2, Chapter 6: Commercial Fisheries F01 February 2024
F2.7 REP7-035 Volume 2, Chapter 7 Shipping and Navigation F02 January 2025
F2.8 REP7-036 Volume 2, Chapter 8: Seascape and Visual Resources F02 January 2025
F2.9 REP7-038 Volume 2, Chapter 9: Marine Archaeology F02 January 2025
F2.10 APP-062 Volume 2, Chapter 10: Other Sea Users F01 February 2024
F2.11 REP7-039 Volume 2, Chapter 11: Inter-related Effects - Offshore F02 January 2025
F3.1 REP7-040 Volume 3, Chapter 1: Geology, Hydrogeology and Ground Conditions F02 January 2025
F3.2 REP7-041 Volume 3, Chapter 2: Hydrology and Flood Risk F02 January 2025
F3.3 REP7-042 Volume 3, Chapter 3: Onshore Ecology F02 January 2025
F3.4 REP7-044 Volume 3, Chapter 3: Onshore and Intertidal Ornithology F02 January 2025
F3.5 REP7-045 Volume 3, Chapter 5: Historic Environment F02 January 2025
F3.6 REP7-046 Volume 3, Chapter 6: Landscape and Visual Resources F02 January 2025
F3.7 REP7-048 Volume 3, Chapter 7: Land Use and Recreation F02 January 2025
F3.8 REP7-049 Volume 3, Chapter 8: Traffic and Transport F02 January 2025
F3.9 REP7-050 Volume 3, Chapter 9: Noise and Vibration F03 January 2025
F3.10 REP7-051 Volume 3, Chapter 10: Air Quality F02 January 2025
F3.11 APP-074 Volume 3, Chapter 11: Inter-related Effects - Onshore F01 February 2024
F4.1 REP7-052 Volume 4, Chapter 1: Aviation and Radar F02 January 2025
F4.2 REP7-053 Volume 4, Chapter 2: Climate Change F02 January 2025
F4.3 APP-077 Volume 4, Chapter 3: Socio-economics F01 February 2024
F4.4 REP7-054 Volume 4, Chapter 4: Human Health Assessment F02 January 2025
F5.3.1 APP-079 Volume 5, Annex 3.1: Underwater Sound Technical Report F01 February 2024
F5.3.2 APP-080 Volume 5, Annex 3.2: Sulphur Hexafluoride Report F01 February 2024
F5.4.1 APP-081 Volume 5, Annex 4.1: Site Selection Area of Search Identification F01 February 2024
F5.4.2 APP-082 Volume 5, Annex 4.2: Site Selection BRAG Report F01 February 2024
F5.4.3 REP7-055 Volume 5, Annex 5.3: Onshore Crossing Schedule F04 January 2025
F5.5.1 REP7-056 Volume 5, Annex 5.1: Cumulative effects screening matrix F03 January 2025
F5.5.2 APP-085 Volume 5, Annex 5.2: Transboundary impacts screening F01 February 2024
F6.1.1 APP-086 Volume 6, Annex 1.1: Physical Processes Technical Report F01 February 2024
F6.2.1 APP-087 Volume 6, Annex 2.1: Benthic Subtidal and Intertidal Ecology Technical Report F01 February 2024
F6.2.2 REP7-057 Volume 6, Annex 2.2: Water Framework Directive Coastal Waters Assessment F02 January 2025
F6.3.1 APP-089 Volume 6, Annex 3.1: Fish and Shellfish Ecology Technical Report F01 February 2024
F6.4.1 APP-090 Volume 6, Annex 4.1: Marine Mammals Technical Report F01 February 2024
F6.5.1 APP-091 Volume 6, Annex 5.1: Offshore Ornithology Baseline Characterisation Technical Report F01 February 2024
F6.5.2 REP2-018 Volume 6, Annex 5.2: Offshore Ornithology Displacement Technical Report F02 August 2024
F6.5.3 REP2-020 Volume 6, Annex 5.3: Offshore Ornithology Collision Risk Modelling Technical Report F02 August 2024
F6.5.4 APP-094 Volume 6, Annex 5.4: Offshore Ornithology Migratory Bird Collision Risk Modelling Technical Report F01 February 2024
F6.5.5 REP7-058 Volume 6, Annex 5.5:Offshore Ornithology Apportioning Technical Report F03 January 2025
F6.5.6 REP2-024 Volume 6, Annex 5.6: Offshore Ornithology Population Viability Analysis Technical Report F02 August 2024
F6.6.1 APP-097 Volume 6, Annex 6.1: Commercial Fisheries Technical Report F01 February 2024
F6.7.1 REP7-061 Volume 6, Annex 7.1: Navigational Risk Assessment F02 January 2025
F6.8.1 APP-099 Volume 6, Annex 8.1: Seascape and Visual Resources Legislation and Planning Policy Context F01 February 2024
F6.8.2 APP-100 Volume 6, Annex 8.2: Seascape and Landscape Character Baseline Technical Report F01 February 2024
F6.8.3 APP-101 Volume 6, Annex 8.3: Visual Baseline Technical Report – Offshore Development F01 February 2024
F6.8.3 APP-102 Volume 6, Annex 8.3: Visual baseline technical report – Offshore Development Appendix – Part 1 F01 February 2024
F6.8.3 APP-103 Volume 6, Annex 8.3: Visual baseline technical report– Offshore Development Appendix – Part 2 F01 February 2024
F6.8.4 REP7-062 Volume 6, Annex 8.4: Seascape, Landscape and Visual Resources Impact Assessment Methodology F02 January 2025
F6.8.5 APP-105 Volume 6, Annex 8.6: International and Nationally Designated Landscape Study F01 February 2024
F6.8.6 APP-106 Volume 6, Annex 8.6: Seascape Visualisations Part 1 (Figures 1.1 – 9.3) F01 February 2024
F6.8.6 APP-107 Volume 6, Annex 8.6: Seascape Visualisations Part 2 (Figures 9.4 – 17.1) F01 February 2024
F6.8.6 APP-108 Volume 6, Annex 8.6: Seascape Visualisations Part 3 ( Figures 18.1 – 27.2) F01 February 2024
F6.8.6 APP-109 Volume 6, Annex 8.6: Seascape Visualisations Part 4 ( Figures 28.1 – 32.2) F01 February 2024
F6.8.6 APP-110 Volume 6, Annex 8.6: Seascape Visualisations Part 5 ( Figures 33.1 – 38.3) F01 February 2024
F6.8.6 APP-111 Volume 6, Annex 8.6: Seascape Visualisations Part 6 ( Figures 38.4 – 46.2) F01 February 2024
F6.8.6 APP-112 Volume 6, Annex 8.6: Seascape Visualisations Part 7 ( Figures 47 – 56) F01 February 2024
F6.9.1 APP-113 Volume 6, Annex 9.1: Marine Archaeology Technical Report F01 February 2024
F6.10.1 APP-114 Volume 6, Annex 10.1: Radar Early Warning Systems and Microwave Communication Links Technical Report F01 February 2024
F7.1.1 APP-115 Volume 7, Annex 1.1: Aquifers, Groundwater Abstractions and Ground Conditions F01 February 2024
F7.1.2 APP-116 Volume 7, Annex 1.2: Groundwater Sources of Supply – Hydrogeological Risk Assessment F01 February 2024
F7.2.1 REP7-063 Volume 7, Annex 2.1: Flood Consequences Assessment F02 January 2025
F7.2.2 APP-118 Volume 7, Annex 2.2: Surface Watercourses and NRW Flood Zones F01 February 2024
F7.2.3 APP-119 Volume 7, Annex 2.3: Surface Water Abstraction Licences, Discharge Consents and Pollution Incidents F01 February 2024
F7.2.4 REP7-064 Volume 7, Annex 2.4: Water Framework Directive Surface Water and Groundwater Assessment F02 January 2025
F7.3.1 APP-121 Volume 7, Annex 3.1: Onshore Ecology Desk Study F01 February 2024
F7.3.2 APP-122 Volume 7, Annex 3.2: Extended Phase 1 Habitat Survey Technical Report F01 February 2024
F7.3.3 APP-123 Volume 7, Annex 3.3: Great Crested Newt Survey Technical Report F01 February 2024
F7.3.4 APP-124 Volume 7, Annex 3.4: Hedgerow Survey Technical Report F01 February 2024
F7.3.5 APP-125 Volume 7, Annex 3.5: Terrestrial Invertebrates Survey F01 February 2024
F7.3.6 APP-126 Volume 7, Annex 3.6: Aquatic Invertebrates (inc White Clawed Crayfish) Survey F01 February 2024
F7.3.7 APP-127 Volume 7, Annex 3.7: Reptile Survey F01 February 2024
F7.3.8 APP-128 Volume 7, Annex 3.8: Water Vole Survey F01 February 2024
F7.3.9 APP-129 Volume 7, Annex 3.9: Bat Roost Survey (Part 1) F01 February 2024
F7.3.9 APP-130 Volume 7, Annex 3.9: Bat Roost Survey (Part 2) F01 February 2024
F7.3.9 APP-131 Volume 7, Annex 3.9: Bat Roost Survey (Part 3) F01 February 2024
F7.3.10 APP-132 Volume 7, Annex 3.10: Bat Activity Survey F01 February 2024
F7.3.11 APP-133 Volume 7, Annex 3.11: Otter Survey Technical Report F01 February 2024
F7.3.12 APP-135 Volume 7, Annex 3.12: Badger Survey Technical Report (Confidential) F01 February 2024
F7.3.12 APP-134 Volume 7, Annex 3.12: Badger Survey Technical Report (Public) F01 February 2024
F7.3.13 APP-136 Volume 7, Annex 3.13: Hazel Dormouse Survey Technical Report F01 February 2024
F7.3.14 APP-137 Volume 7, Annex 3.14: National Vegetation Classification and Invasive Non-Native Species Technical Report F01 February 2024
F7.3.15 APP-138 Volume 7, Annex 3.15: Fish and Eel Survey Technical Report F01 February 2024
F7.4.1 APP-139 Volume 7, Annex 4.1: Onshore Ornithology- Wintering and Migratory Birds Technical Report F01 February 2024
F7.4.2 APP-140 Volume 7, Annex 4.2: Intertidal Ornithology - Wintering and Migratory Birds F01 February 2024
F7.4.3 APP-142 Volume 7, Annex 4.3: Onshore Ornithology- Breeding Birds Technical Report (Confidential) F01 February 2024
F7.5.1 REP7-065 Volume 7, Annex 5.1: Desk-Based Assessment F02 January 2025
F7.5.2 APP-144 Volume 7, Annex 5.2: Historic Environment Policy and Guidance F01 February 2024
F7.5.3 APP-145 Volume 7, Annex 5.3: Onshore Geophysical Survey Report -Part 1 F01 February 2024
F7.5.3 APP-146 Volume 7, Annex 5.3: Onshore Geophysical Survey Report -Part 2 F01 February 2024
F7.5.4 APP-147 Volume 7, Annex 5.4: Intertidal Survey Report F01 February 2024
F7.5.5 APP-148 Volume 7, Annex 5.5: Trial Trenching Report – Part 1 F01 February 2024
F7.5.5 APP-149 Volume 7, Annex 5.5: Trial Trenching Report – Part 2 F01 February 2024
F7.5.6 APP-150 Volume 7, Annex 5.6: Settings Assessment (onshore infrastructure) F01 February 2024
F7.5.7 APP-151 Volume 7, Annex 5.7: Settings Assessment (offshore infrastructure) F01 February 2024
F7.6.1 APP-152 Volume 7, Annex 5.7: Landscape and Visual Resources Planning Policy Context F01 February 2024
F7.6.2 APP-153 Volume 7, Annex 6.2: Landscape and Seascape Character Baseline Technical Report – Part 1 F01 February 2024
F7.6.2 APP-154 Volume 7, Annex 6.2: Landscape and Seascape Character Baseline Technical Report – Part 2 F01 February 2024
F7.6.3 APP-155 Volume 7, Annex 6.3: Visual Baseline Technical Report - Onshore Development F01 February 2024
F7.6.4 APP-156 Volume 7, Annex 6.4: Landscape, Seascape and Visual Resources Impact Assessment Methodology F01 February 2024
F7.6.5 APP-157 Volume 7, Annex 6.5: Landscape Visualisations Part 1 (viewpoint 1 – viewpoint 8) F01 February 2024
F7.6.5 APP-158 Volume 7, Annex 6.5: Landscape Visualisations Part 2 (viewpoint 9 – viewpoint 15) F01 February 2024
F7.6.5 APP-159 Volume 7, Annex 6.5: Landscape Visualisations (viewpoint 16 – viewpoint 30) F01 February 2024
F7.6.6 APP-160 Volume 7, Annex 6.6: Tree Survey and Arboriculture Impact Assessment Part 1 F01 February 2024
F7.6.6 REP7-066 Volume 7, Annex 6.6: Tree Survey and Arboriculture Impact Assessment Part 2 – Appendix A F02 January 2025
F7.6.6 REP7-067 Volume 7, Annex 6.6: Tree Survey and Arboriculture Impact Assessment Part 3 – Appendix B F02 January 2025
F7.6.6 REP7-068 Volume 7, Annex 6.6: Tree Survey and Arboriculture Impact Assessment Part 4 – Appendix B F02 January 2025
F7.6.6 REP7-069 Volume 7, Annex 6.6: Tree Survey and Arboriculture Impact Assessment Part 5 – Appendix B F02 January 2025
F7.6.6 REP7-070 Volume 7, Annex 6.6: Tree Survey and Arboriculture Impact Assessment Part 6 – Appendix C F02 January 2025
F7.6.6 REP7-071 Volume 7, Annex 6.6: Tree Survey and Arboriculture Impact Assessment Part 7 – Appendix C F02 January 2025
F7.6.6 REP7-072 Volume 7, Annex 6.6: Tree Survey and Arboriculture Impact Assessment Part 8 – Appendix C F02 January 2025
F7.7.1 APP-168 Volume 7, Annex 7.1: Published Soil and Agricultural Land Classification Data Technical Report F01 February 2024
F7.7.2 REP5-014 Volume 7, Annex 7.2: Soil Survey Data Technical Report F02 December 2024
F7.7.3 APP-170 Volume 7, Annex 7.3: Published Recreational Resources Plan Technical Report F01 February 2024
F7.8.1 APP-171 Volume 7, Annex 7.3: Description of Network Links and Sensitivity F01 February 2024
F7.8.2 APP-172 Volume 7, Annex 8.2: Base Traffic Flows F01 February 2024
F7.8.3 APP-173 Volume 7, Annex 8.3: Personal Injury Accident Locations F01 February 2024
F7.8.4 APP-174 Volume 7, Annex 8.4: Public Transport Networks F01 February 2024
F7.8.5 APP-175 Volume 7, Annex 8.5: Construction Vehicle Trip Generation Assumptions F01 February 2024
F7.8.6 APP-176 Volume 7, Annex 8.6: Traffic Flows with Construction Traffic F01 February 2024
F7.8.7 APP-177 Volume 7, Annex 8.7: Traffic and Transport Figures F01 February 2024
F7.9.1 APP-178 Volume 7, Annex 9.1: Baseline Noise Survey F01 February 2024
F7.9.2 REP5-016 Volume 7, Annex 9.2: Construction Noise and Vibration Technical Report F02 December 2024
F7.9.3 APP-180 Volume 7, Annex 9.3: Operation Noise Assessment Technical Report F01 February 2024
F8.1.1 REP7-073 Volume 8, Annex 1.1: Aviation and Radar Technical Report F02 January 2025
F8.2.1 APP-182 Volume 8, Annex 2.1: Technical Greenhouse Gas Assessment Technical Report F01 February 2024
F8.2.2 APP-183 Volume 8, Annex 2.2: Climate Change Risk Assessment F01 February 2024
F8.3.1 APP-184 Volume 8, Annex 3.1: Socio-economics Technical Impact Report F01 February 2024
S_D3_15 REP3-046 Seascapes and Visual Resources: Cumulative Wirelines F01 September 2024
S_D3_16.1 REP3-047 Landscape and Visual Resources – Cumulative Visualisations Part 1 F01 September 2024
S_D3_16.2 REP3-048 Landscape and Visual Resources – Cumulative Visualisations Part 2 F01 September 2024
S_D4_6.2 REP4-038 Appendix to HAP ISH3_20: Updated Visualisations Part 1 F01 November 2024
S_D4_6.3 REP4-039 Appendix to HAP ISH3_20: Updated Visualisations Part 2 F01 November 2024
S_D4_15 REP4-046 Zone of Theoretical Visibility and representative viewpoint locations at 1:50,000 Scale F01 November 2024
Document Reference Number Planning Inspectorate Reference Document Name Revision Date
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S_RFI1_03 C1-008c Outline Code of Construction Practice F01 May 2025
J26.1 REP6-036 Outline Spillage and Emergency Response Plan F03 December 2024
J26.2 REP6-038 Outline Dust Management Plan F03 December 2024
S_RFI1_04 C1-008e Outline Construction Noise and Vibration Management Plan F01 May 2025
J26.4 REP6-042 Outline Communications Plan F03 December 2024
J26.5 REP6-044 Outline Construction Fencing Plan F03 December 2024
J26.6 REP6-046 Outline Construction Surface Water and Drainage Management Plan F03 December 2024
J26.7 REP6-048 Outline Flood Management Plan F03 December 2024
J26.8 REP6-050 Outline Soil Management Plan F03 December 2024
J26.9 REP6-052 Outline Site Waste Management Plan F03 December 2024
J26.10 REP6-054 Outline Artificial Light Emissions Plan F03 December 2024
J26.11 REP6-056 Outline Biosecurity Protocol F03 December 2024
J26.12 REP6-058 Outline Discovery Strategy for Contaminated Land F03 December 2024
S_RFI1_05 C1-008g Outline Construction Traffic Management Plan F01 May 2025
J26.14 REP7-089 Outline Landfall Construction Method Statement F05 January 2025
S_RFI1_06 C3-004, pdf pages 22 to 37 Outline Onshore Construction Method Statement F02 June 2025
S_RFI1_07 C1-008k Outline Highways Access Management Plan F01 May 2025
J26.17 REP6-064 Outline Public Rights of Way Management Strategy F03 December 2024
J26.18 REP6-066 Outline Arboriculture Method Statement F03 December 2024
Document Reference Number Planning Inspectorate Reference Document Name Revision Date
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J3 REP6-024 Design Principles F04 December 2024
J10 REP7-077 Mitigation and Monitoring Schedule F07 January 2025
J12 APP-198 Outline Offshore Operations and Maintenance Plan F01 February 2024
J13 REP7-079 Outline Fisheries Liaison and Co-existence Plan F03 January 2025
J14 REP6-028 Outline Vessel Traffic Management Plan F03 December 2024
J15 REP7-081 Offshore In-principle Monitoring Plan F03 January 2025
J16 REP5-028 Outline Underwater Sound Management Strategy F02 December 2024
J17 REP5-030 Measures to Minimise Disturbance to Marine Mammals and Rafting Birds from Transiting Vessels F03 December 2024
J18 REP7-083 Outline Offshore Written Scheme of Investigation and Protocol for Archaeological Discoveries F03 January 2025
J21 REP5-032 Outline Marine Mammal Mitigation Protocol F02 December 2024
J22 REP7-085 Outline Landscape and Ecology Management Plan F05 January 2025
J23 REP6-032 Outline Onshore Written Scheme of Investigation F03 December 2024
J24 REP4-015 Outline Skills and Employment Plan F02 November 2024
J27 REP6-068 Outline Operation Drainage Management Strategy F02 December 2024
S_D4_8 REP4-041 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategy F01 November 2024
S_D7_30 REP7-136 Landscape Enhancement Scheme Principles F01 January 2025

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero

David Wagstaff — Deputy Director for Energy Infrastructure Planning — Department for Energy Security and Net Zero — 4th July 2025

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order grants development consent for, and authorises the construction, operation and maintenance of an offshore wind farm generating station located in the Irish Sea approximately 28 kilometres from the coast of North Wales, together with associated development. This Order imposes requirements in connection with the development and authorises the compulsory purchase of land (including rights in land) and the right to use land and to override easements and other rights.

A copy of the plans and book of reference referred to in this Order and certified in accordance with article 41 (certification of plans) together with a copy of any guarantee or alternative form of security approved by the Secretary of State pursuant to article 32 (funding), may be inspected free of charge at the offices of Mona Offshore Wind Limited, Chertsey Road, Sunbury On Thames, Middlesex, United Kingdom, TW16 7BP.

Footnotes

1

2008 c. 29. Section 37 was amended by section 128(2) and Schedule 13, Part 1, paragraphs 1 to 5 of the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20).

2

S.I. 2010/103. This instrument was amended by S.I. 2012/635.

12

2004 c. 20. Section 105 was amended by section 69 of the Energy Act 2008 (c. 32).

16

“highway” is defined in section 328(1) for “highway authority” see section 1. Relevant amendments are as follows: section 1 was amended by sections 8 and 102 and Schedule 4, paragraph 1 and Schedule 17 of the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), by section 21 of the 1991 Act and by section 1(6) and Schedule 1, paragraph 2 of the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), by S.I. 2015/481, and by S.I. 1991/2288.

17

Section 48 was amended by sections 124 and 134 of the Local Transport Act 2008 (c. 26).

18

“Street authority” is defined in section 49, which was amended by section 57(1) and paragraph 117 of Schedule 1 to the Infrastructure Act 2015, and S.I. 2015/481.

19

Section 6 was amended by sections 89, 136, 198, 143, and 145, Part 1 of Schedule 23 and paragraphs 3 and 5 of Schedule 19 to the Energy Act 2004 (c. 20), sections 72 and 121 and Schedule 1 to the Energy Act 2011 (c. 16), sections 166, 186, 334 and 205 to the Energy Act 2023 (c. 52), S.I. 2012/2400 and S.I. 2011/2704. There are other amendments to section 6 which are not relevant to the Order.

20

1991 c. 57. Paragraph 5 was amended by section 100(1) and (2) of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (c. 16), section 84 of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 11 to, the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23), paragraph 49 of Schedule 2 to the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 (c. 29), paragraph 32 of Schedule 10 to the Fisheries Act 2020 and S.I. 2013/755. Paragraph 6 was amended by paragraph 26 of Schedule 15 to the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), section 224 of, and paragraphs 20 and 24 of Schedule 16, and Part 5(B) of Schedule 22, to, the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 and S.I. 2013/755. Paragraph 6A was inserted by section 103(3) of the Environment Act 1995.

21

1991 c. 59. As substituted by section 49 of, and paragraph 38 of Schedule 2 to the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 (c. 29), section 22(2) and paragraph 14 of schedule 2 to the Local Government Byelaws (Wales) Act 2012 (2012 anaw 2) and section 86 (3) of the Water Act 2014 (c. 21).

22

1991 c. 59. Section 23 has been amended by paragraph 32 of Schedule 2 to the Flood and Water Management Act 2010, section 120 of and paragraph 192 of Schedule 22 to the Environment Act 1995 and paragraph 322 of Schedule 2 to the Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No.755); section 30 has been amended by S.I. 2013/1036.

24

1990 c. 43. Relevant amendments are as follows: section 82 was amended by section 107 and Schedule 17 paragraph 6 of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25) and section 5(2) of the Noise and Statutory Nuisance Act 1993 (c. 40), and section 79 was amended by sections 101 and 102 of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (c. 16), by section 2 of the Noise and Statutory Nuisance Act 1993 and by section 120 and Schedule 22 paragraph 89 of the Environment Act 2005.

25

1974 c. 40. Section 61 was amended by Schedule 7 to the Building Act 1984 (c. 55), paragraph 15 of Schedule 15 to the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and Schedule 24 to the Environment Act 1995. There are other amendments to the 1974 Act which are not relevant to the Order.

26

1974 c. 40. Section 61 was amended by Schedule 7 to the Building Act 1984 (c. 55), paragraph 15 of Schedule 3 to the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and Schedule 24 to the Environment Act 1995.

27

Section 48 is amended by sections 124 and 134 of the Local Transport Act 2008 (c. 26), and section 51 was amended by sections 40 and 99 and Schedule 1 to the Traffic Management Act 2004 (c. 18).

28

Sections 55, 57, 60, 68 and 69 were amended by the Traffic Management Act 2004 (c. 18).

29

1991 c. 56. Section 106 was amended by sections 43(2) and 35(8)(a) and paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Competition and Service (Utilities) Act 1992 (c. 43) and sections 99(2), (4), (5)(a), (5)(b) and (5)(c) of the Water Act 2003 (c. 37) and Schedule 3, paragraph 16(1) of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 (c. 29).

31

Section 13 has been amended by section 139 and Schedules 13 and 23 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15).

32

Section 125 is amended by section 216 and paragraph 17 of Schedule 16 to the Housing and Planning Act 2016.

33

Section 4 was amended by sections 184 and 185 of, and paragraph 2 of Schedule 18 to, the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22).

34

Section 8 was amended by section 216 of and paragraph 2 of Schedule 17 to the Housing and Planning Act 2016 and S.I. 2009/1307 and Schedule 2A was amended by section 216 of and paragraph 3 of Schedule 17 to the Housing and Planning Act 2016.

36

Section 11(1) was amended by section 186 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016, paragraph 14 of Schedule 4 to the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 and S.I. 2006/2.

37

Section 152 was amended by S.I. 2009/1307.

38

Section 138 was amended by section 23(4) of the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 (c. 27) and S.I. 2017/1285.

39

Section 13 was amended by Tribunals Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15).

40

2003 c. 21. There are amendments to this section which are not relevant to this Order.

42

Section 105(2) was substituted by section 69(3) of the Energy Act 2008 (c. 32).

46

Section 11A was inserted by section 186(3) of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22).

47

Section 11B was inserted by section 187(2) of the above Act (c. 22).

52

2004 c. 20. Section 105 was amended by section 69 of the Energy Act 2008 (c. 32).

Editorial notes

54

Art. 1 in force at 28.7.2025, see art. 1

55

Art. 2 in force at 28.7.2025, see art. 1

56

Art. 3 in force at 28.7.2025, see art. 1

57

Art. 4 in force at 28.7.2025, see art. 1

58

Art. 5 in force at 28.7.2025, see art. 1

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