The North Blyth Biomass Power Station Order 2013

Article 3

SCHEDULE 1 Authorised development

1.  In Northumberland the construction use and maintenance of a nationally significant infrastructure project as defined in sections 14(1)(a) and 15 of the 2008 Act comprising—

Work No. 1 — an electricity generating station located on the eastern side of Battleship Wharf, Port of Blyth with a nominal gross electrical output capacity of up to 99.9 MWe fuelled by biomass and including—

(a) boiler house;

(b) main stack;

(c) turbine hall;

(d) workshop and maintenance building;

(e) pump house and associated equipment for steam cycle systems;

(f) two fuel storage sheds located to the north and the south of the turbine hall and boiler house;

(g) day fuel storage shed located to the east of the turbine hall;

(h) road vehicle discharge facility;

(i) railway discharge and reception facility;

(j) control room and administration buildings (with provision for visitor facility);

(k) supplementary liquid fuel storage facility and associated distribution system;

(l) bottom ash and fly ash handling and storage facility together with lorry transhipment and discharge facility;

(m) processing plant including—

(i) flue gas treatment facility;

(ii) water treatment plant;

(iii) raw water storage facility;

(iv) demineralised water storage facility;

(n) storage facilities for chemicals and sand for use in combustion and gas clean-up;

(o) substation;

(p) conveyor system attached to and connecting with buildings (a), (f), (g), (h), and (i);

(q) internal site roads, footways and vehicle parking facilities;

(r) weighbridge;

(s) security building and gatehouse;

(t) external enclosed conveyor and mobile hopper system including transfer points leading from Berth 4 Battleship Wharf at ordnance survey national grid reference point NZ 30834 82861 to Work No. 1(p);

(u) water intake system from the estuary of the River Blyth under Berth 4 of the Commission’s Battleship Wharf at ordnance survey national grid reference point NZ 30836 82822 consisting of a screened intake, underground pumping chamber, above ground access and pump house building and underground pipe running east from the estuary of the River Blyth and leading to a condenser within Work No. 1(c);

(v) up to two water outfall pipes running underground from Work No. 1(c) at ordnance survey national grid reference point NZ 31068 82736 in an easterly direction and under the railway of the Port of Blyth, then the highway of North Blyth Road, the railway from North Blyth to Bedlington then under the foreshore and the North Sea and the rock outcrop known as the Rockers to a diffuser on the sea bed referred to in sub-paragraph (w);

(w) a diffuser and foundation on the sea bed of the North Sea at ordnance survey national grid reference point NZ 32025 83375.

2.  Associated development within the meaning of section 115(2) of the 2008 Act comprising—

Work No. 2 — modifications to access to the highway of North Blyth Road at the existing entrance to the Commission’s Battleship Wharf at grid reference NZ 31146 82436 including modification to the roundabout in the highway of North Blyth Road at ordnance survey national grid reference point NZ 31192 82447 and work to repair the adjacent river wall in the estuary of the River Blyth and strengthen it by way of a new bored pile wall on the landward side of the existing river wall;

Work No. 3A — a grid connection consisting of a 66 kV underground circuit and associated telemetry cables commencing at Work No. 1 in an easterly direction for 35 metres under the Commission’s railway and bund to the western verge of North Blyth Road;

Work No. 3B — a grid connection consisting of a 66 kV underground circuit and associated telemetry cables laid in a trench commencing at Work No. 3A and then in a north westerly direction parallel to the carriageway of North Blyth Road for 520 metres to the Commission’s railway where it crosses North Blyth Road by a level crossing at ordnance survey national grid reference point NZ 30842 83263;

Work No. 3C — a grid connection consisting of a 66 kV underground circuit and associated telemetry cables laid by directional drilling from Work No. 3B under the Commission’s railway where it crosses the highway of North Blyth Road by a level crossing for 85 metres at ordnance survey national grid reference point NZ 30793 83334;

Work No. 3D — a 66 kV underground circuit and associated telemetry cables laid in a trench connecting with Work No. 3C and then in a north westerly direction parallel to the carriageway of North Blyth Road for 100 metres to Cambois roundabout at ordnance survey national grid reference point NZ 30717 83397 and connecting with Work No. 4;

Work No. 4 — a grid connection consisting of a 66 kV underground circuit and associated telemetry cables laid in a trench connecting with Work No. 3D at ordnance survey national grid reference point NZ 30717 83397 under the unnamed highway classified as C415 and running west under the said highway for 406 metres to a point immediately north of the access from the former Blyth Generating Station site to the highway of North Blyth Road at ordnance survey national grid reference point NZ 30317 83371;

Work No. 5 — a grid connection consisting of a 66 kV underground circuit and associated telemetry cables laid in a trench connecting with Work No. 4 at ordnance survey national grid reference point NZ 30317 83371 underneath the highway of North Blyth Road and running south under the internal access road of the former Blyth Generating Station site from the highway of North Blyth Road to the substation owned by Northern Powergrid Limited on the former Blyth Generating Station Site at ordnance survey national grid reference point NZ 30297 83086;

Work No. 6 — an emergency access and egress route from Work No. 1 connecting to the highway of North Blyth Road at ordnance survey national grid reference point NZ 31202 82556;

Work No. 7 — removal of existing railway transit shed over the Commission’s railway to the west of the highway known as North Blyth Road and its resiting over the said railway at ordnance survey national grid reference point NZ 31026 82919;

Work No. 8 — demolition of the Commission’s existing security cabin located to the north of the entrance to the Port of Blyth’s Battleship Wharf from the highway of North Blyth Road;

Work No. 9 — construction of a new security cabin for the Commission to the north of the entrance to the Commission’s Battleship Wharf from the highway of North Blyth Road at ordnance survey national grid reference point NZ 31123 82483;

and in connection with such works further associated development comprising—

(a) landscaping, fencing and boundary treatments;

(b) metal mesh screening;

(c) connection to the electricity network for the purpose of supply to the authorised development;

(d) connection to the telecommunications network for the purpose of supply to the authorised development;

(e) temporary construction site offices;

(f) hardstandings on site for the parking of construction vehicles plant and machinery or for the vehicles of construction workers;

(g) water supply works, foul drainage provision and surface water management systems;

(h) raw water fire fighting tank and associated pipe network; and

(i) installation and maintenance of an aid to navigation at ordnance survey national grid reference point NZ 32025 83375 marking the location of the water outfall pipe at its seaward end.