The Dogger Bank Creyke Beck Offshore Wind Farm Order 2015

Detailed design approval onshore

12.—(1) Except where the onshore works are carried out in accordance with the plans (or relevant parts of the plans) listed in sub-paragraph (1) of Requirement 13, no stage of the onshore works must commence until details of the layout, scale, levels and external appearance of the onshore works have been submitted to and approved in writing by the relevant planning authority. This must include a section showing cable depths for Works No. 4A, 5A, 4B and 5B.

(2) The onshore works must be carried out in accordance with the approved details.

(3) No building (excluding lightning protection) forming part of Work No. 7 must exceed 20 metres in height above the existing ground level. Ground level is defined for this purpose as 14.5 metres above ordnance datum (AOD).

(4) The width of the corridor occupied by the grid connection comprising Works No. 6A and 6B, and any related associated development once constructed must not exceed 36 metres, except—

(a) for the temporary construction compounds shown on the works plans, in which case the width of the corridor must not exceed the width of the temporary construction compounds set out in the environmental statement project description;

(b) where major drilling is proposed, in which case the width of the corridor occupied by the grid connection comprising Works No. 6A and 6B must not exceed 53 metres; or

(c) where drilling under Figham Common is required, in which case the width of the corridor occupied by the grid connection comprising Works No. 6A and 6B must not exceed 70 metres.

(5) The width of the corridor occupied by the grid connection comprising Works No. 8A and 8B and any related associated development once constructed must not exceed 38 metres, except for the temporary construction compounds shown on the works plans, in which case the width of the corridor must not exceed the width of the temporary construction compounds set out in the environmental statement project description.