The Rampion Offshore Wind Farm (Amendment) Order 2021

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

5.  Requirement 15 of Part 3 (Requirements) of Schedule 1 (Authorised Project) is amended as follows—

(a) For paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) No stage of the connection works shall commence until, for that stage, the undertaker has provided to the relevant highway authority for its approval a public rights of way diversion and closure scheme (which accords with the public rights of way strategy) which shall include a programme for the temporary closure and re-opening of the public rights of way specified at Schedule 4 (public rights of way to be temporarily stopped up), save for the National Trail in the South Downs National Park, comprising—

(i) a plan for the sequencing of construction of the connection works;

(ii) any alternative routes during the temporary closure, including routes within the working width; and

(iii) the re-opening of the public rights of way upon the cessation of that part of the authorised development requiring the temporary closure of those rights of way.”

(b) For paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2) The authorised development shall thereafter be carried out in accordance with the approved scheme and any new footpath forming part of Footpath 8T specified in Schedule 3 (footpath to be permanently stopped up) must be carried out in accordance with a specification that has been previously agreed with the relevant planning authority.”