The Dogger Bank Creyke Beck Offshore Wind Farm Order 2015

Requirements: appeals, etc.

6.—(1) Where an application is made to the relevant planning authority for any consent, agreement or approval required by Requirements 11 to 33, the following provisions apply in respect of that application as they would if the consent, agreement or approval so required was required by a condition imposed on a grant of planning permission—

(a) sections 78 and 79 of the 1990 Act(1) (right of appeal in relation to planning decisions);

(b) any orders, rules or regulations that make provision in relation to a consent, agreement or approval of a local planning authority required by a condition imposed on a grant of planning permission, insofar as the orders, rules or regulations are not inconsistent with the Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2009 and any orders, rules or other regulations made under the 2008 Act.

(2) For the purposes of the application of section 262 of the 1990 Act (meaning of “statutory undertaker”) to appeals pursuant to this article, the undertaker is deemed to be a holder of a licence under section 6 of the Electricity Act 1989(2).

(1)

Section 78 was amended by section 43(2) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c.5), paragraph 3(b) of Schedule 10 to the Planning Act 2008, section 123(3) of, and paragraph 11 of Schedule 12 to, the Localism Act 2011, paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 and paragraph 12 of Schedule 4 to the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c.7). Section 79 was amended by section 18 of, and paragraph 19 of Schedule 7 to, the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c.34) and by paragraph 4 of Schedule 10 to the Planning Act 2008.

(2)

1989 c. 29. Section 6 was amended by section 30 of the Utilities Act 2000 (c.27), section 136 and 145 of, and Schedule 23 to, the Energy Act 2004, regulation 5 of S.I. 2011/2704 and article 6 of S.I. 2012/2400.