The National Grid (Yorkshire Green Energy Enablement Project) Development Consent Order 2024

Construction hours

7.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) construction works may only take place between 0700 and 1900 Mondays to Fridays and between 0800 and 1700 on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays.

(2) Piling operations must take place only between 0800 and 1700 on Mondays to Fridays and 0900 to 1400 on Saturdays.

(3) The following operations may take place outside the core working hours referred to in paragraph (1) and (2)—

(a) the jointing of underground cables, with the exception of cable cutting which must take place only during core working hours;

(b) installation and removal of conductors, pilot wires and associated protective netting across highways, railway lines or watercourses;

(c) the completion of operations commenced during the core working hours which cannot safely be stopped;

(d) any highway works requested by the relevant highway authority to be undertaken on a Saturday or a Sunday or outside the core working hours;

(e) oil processing of transformers or reactors in substation sites;

(f) the testing or commissioning of any electrical plant installed as part of the authorised development;

(g) the completion of works delayed or held up by severe weather conditions which disrupted or interrupted normal construction activities;

(h) start up and close down activities, which may take place one hour immediately prior to or one hour immediately after the core working hours; and

(i) security monitoring.