The Dogger Bank Creyke Beck Offshore Wind Farm (Amendment) Order 2022
The Secretary of State, having considered the application, the responses to the publicity and consultation required by regulations 6 and 7 of the 2011 Regulations, has decided to make the changes on terms that in the opinion of the Secretary of State are not materially different from those proposed in the application.
Accordingly, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers in paragraph 2(1) and (9) of Schedule 6 to the Planning Act 2008, makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement1.
This Order may be cited as the Dogger Bank Creyke Beck Offshore Wind Farm (Amendment) Order 2022 and comes into force on 18th June 2022.
Amendment to the Dogger Bank Creyke Beck Offshore Wind Farm Order 20152.
The Dogger Bank Creyke Beck Offshore Wind Farm Order 2015 is amended in accordance with this Order.
Amendments to Part 3 (Requirements) of Schedule 1 (Authorised Project)3.
The detailed offshore design parameters in Part 3 (Requirements) of Schedule 1 (Authorised Project) are amended as follows—
(a)
in paragraph 4(4)(b), for “3,000” substitute “4,000”
; and
(b)
in paragraph 5(7)(b), for “1,900” substitute “3,000”
.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
This Order amends the Dogger Bank Creyke Beck Offshore Wind Farm Order 2015, a development consent order under the Planning Act 2008, following an application made in accordance with the Infrastructure Planning (Changes to, and Revocation of, Development Consent Orders) Regulations 2011 for a non-material change under paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to the Planning Act 2008. This Order increases the maximum amount of energy that can be used by piling hammers to install pin piles and monopiles that secure wind turbine generators and offshore platforms to the ocean floor.