The Thurrock Flexible Generation Plant Development Consent Order 2022

Operational noise E+W+S

16.—(1) Between 23.00 and 07.00 hours, noise arising from normal operation of the site may not exceed a rating level of 45 dB L_Ar,Tr at any residential property which is lawfully inhabited at the date of the making of this Order.

(2) The level set out in sub-paragraph (1) is to be as measured in accordance with British Standard 4142:2014+A1:2019 (Methods for rating and assessing industrial and commercial sound) and British Standard 7445-3:1991 (Description and measurement of environmental noise. Guide to application to noise limits) or any standards replacing those.

(3) Prior to the commencement of the authorised development, the undertaker must submit a plan to the relevant planning authority for approval detailing how noise monitoring will be undertaken during construction and within a six month period beginning with the date of first commercial export of electricity from Work no. 1A. That plan must specify a monitoring location point, which must be in as close proximity as the undertaker can lawfully access, or at a point representative of, the nearest residential property which is lawfully inhabited at the date of the making of this Order.

(4) Noise monitoring must be undertaken by the undertaker in accordance with the plan approved under sub-paragraph (3); and the results of this monitoring must be submitted by the undertaker to the relevant planning authority at the intervals set out in the plan.

(5) Where the results of the monitoring undertaken in accordance with sub-paragraphs (3) and (4), show any exceedance of the level set out in sub-paragraph (1), the undertaker must, within 10 working days, submit to the relevant planning authority for approval a mitigation plan detailing how the exceedance will be mitigated and including a timetable for carrying out any works required to deliver such mitigation.

(6) The undertaker must comply with any plan approved under sub-paragraph (5).

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 2 para. 16 in force at 10.3.2022, see art. 1