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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/844/article/28</dc:identifier><dc:title>The Hornsea Two Offshore Wind Farm Order 2016</dc:title><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:subject scheme="SIheading">INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING</dc:subject><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2025-07-16</dc:modified><dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor><dct:valid>2018-05-08</dct:valid>
					<dc:description>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.</dc:description>
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<Pnumber><CommentaryRef Ref="key-392d04a0d20e7ecf1940f34d1fcae34f"/>28</Pnumber>
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<Text>Subject to Schedule 12 (protective provisions), the undertaker may—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
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<Text>exercise the powers conferred by articles <InternalLink Ref="article-18" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2016/844/article/18" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/844/article/18">18</InternalLink> and <InternalLink Ref="article-19" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2016/844/article/19" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/844/article/19">19</InternalLink> in relation to so much of any land referred to in those articles as belongs to statutory undertakers; and</Text>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
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<Text>extinguish the rights of, remove or reposition the apparatus belonging to statutory undertakers over or within the <Abbreviation Expansion="Hornsea Two Offshore Wind Farm Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/844)">Order</Abbreviation> land referred to in those articles.</Text>
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