The East Anglia ONE Offshore Wind Farm Order 2014

Installation of cable ducts

29.—(1) Save in relation to plots 448 to 450, 453 to 454 and 457 to 471 in the book of reference—

(a) all cable ducts forming part of the onshore connection works must be installed simultaneously together with the onshore cables for the authorised project forming part of the onshore connection works unless sub-paragraph (2) applies; and

(b) no stage of the connection works shall commence until a written method statement showing the programme for laying the onshore cables for the authorised project and all cable ducts as part of a single cable laying operation has for that stage been submitted to and approved in writing by the relevant planning authority. The method statement must include an implementation timetable for laying the cables for the authorised project and all ducts and must be carried out as approved.

(2) If the Secretary of State, on an application to him from the undertakers shall confirm in writing that other generation projects which would otherwise use the ducts to connect to the National Grid have been abandoned or will not come forward within a reasonable timeframe there shall be no requirement to install the ducts pursuant to sub-paragraph (1).

(3) In considering any application to him under sub-paragraph (2) the Secretary of State shall have regard to—

(a) the status of any consent process for those other generation projects;

(b) the status of any agreement for lease for the offshore location of these other generation projects;

(c) the status of any connection agreement to the National Grid;

(d) any confirmation from The Crown Estate or National Grid with regard to (b) and (c) respectively;

(e) any statements from the relevant planning authorities and any other interested party in relation to those other generation projects.