http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/844/article/12The Hornsea Two Offshore Wind Farm Order 2016enINFRASTRUCTURE PLANNINGStatute Law Database2025-07-16Expert Participation2018-05-08 This Order grants development consent for, and authorises the construction, operation and maintenance of up to 2 offshore wind farms with a combined capacity of up to 1,800 megawatts in the North Sea approximately 89 kilometres off the coast of Yorkshire 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. PART 3 12 1 The undertaker may for the purposes of the authorised project— a form and lay out means of access, or improve existing means of access, in the locations set out in column (2) of Schedule 4 (access to works); and b with the approval of the local planning authority after consultation with the highway authority, form and lay out such other means of access, or improve existing means of access, at such locations within the Order limits, as the undertaker reasonably requires for the purposes of the authorised project. 2 If the local planning authority fails to notify the undertaker of its decision within 28 days of receiving an application for approval under paragraph (1)(b), the local planning authority is deemed to have given approval. Art. 12 in force at 7.9.2016, see art. 1(2)