The Progress Power (Gas Fired Power Station) Order 2015

Article 3

SCHEDULE 1 AUTHORISED DEVELOPMENT

In the County of Suffolk and the District of Mid Suffolk—

• A nationally significant infrastructure project as defined in sections 14(1)(a) and 15 of the 2008 Act comprising—

  • Work No. 1 – a simple cycle gas fired peaking power generating station on the site of the former Eye airfields in Eye, Mid Suffolk with a gross electrical output of up to 299MWe comprising—

    (1)

    Work No. 1A—

    (a)

    up to 5 gas turbine generators; and

    (b)

    up to 5 exhaust gas emission flue stacks,

    (2)

    Work No. 1B—

    (a)

    an administration building;

    (b)

    a store;

    (c)

    a control room/office/workshop;

    (d)

    telemetry apparatus;

    (e)

    a black start diesel generator;

    (f)

    a raw/fire water tank and demineralised water storage tank;

    (g)

    a natural gas receiving station and gas treatment compound containing—

    (i)

    a pipeline inspection gauge (PIG) receiving facility;

    (ii)

    isolation valves, metering, heating, filtering, compression, pressure regulation equipment;

    (iii)

    electricity supply kiosk; and

    (iv)

    control and instrumentation kiosks,

    (3)

    Work No. 1C – a switchyard / banking compound containing up to seven transformers, switchgear building and other plant required to manage the transmission of electricity,

    (4)

    Work No. 1D—

    (a)

    security infrastructure, including cameras, perimeter fencing and a gatehouse;

    (b)

    site lighting infrastructure, including perimeter lighting columns;

    (c)

    internal roadways, car parking, pedestrian network, cycle parking, hardstanding and water treatment trailers;

    (d)

    site drainage, attenuation pond and waste management infrastructure;

    (e)

    electricity, water, wastewater and telecommunications and other services;

    (f)

    landscaping including tree planting, fencing and other boundary treatments and ecological mitigation;

    (g)

    high voltage and low voltage cabling, equipment and controls and associated telemetry and electrical protection auxiliary cabling;

    (h)

    underground gas pipeline connection, associated telemetry and cathodic protection test / transformer rectifier unit;

    (i)

    other ancillary equipment; and

    (j)

    new means of accesses from Potash Lane including permanent road surface, drainage, gates and fencing,

  • Work No. 2—

    (a)

    a maintenance compound including new hardstanding,

    (b)

    landscaping including tree planting, fencing and other boundary treatments; and

    (c)

    site drainage,

  Associated development within the meaning of section 115(2) of the 2008 Act in connection with the nationally significant infrastructure project referred to in Work No. 1 comprising—

  • Work No. 3A—

    (a)

    an above ground installation (also referred to as a minimum offtake connection compound) containing—

    (i)

    a minimum offtake connection comprising remotely operable valves, control and instrumentation kiosks and electrical supply kiosks;

    (ii)

    a pipeline inspection gauge (PIG) facility, comprising a PIG launching facility, emergency control valves, isolation valves, control and instrumentation kiosks, and electricity supply kiosks;

    (b)

    security infrastructure, including cameras, lighting (including perimeter lighting columns) and perimeter fencing;

    (c)

    site drainage and waste management infrastructure;

    (d)

    electricity and telecommunications connections and other services;

    (e)

    below ground sacrificial anode pit; and

    (f)

    landscaping including tree planting, fencing and other boundary treatments and ecological mitigation,

  • Work No. 3B – new means of access between Potash Lane and numbered work 3A, including signing and road markings works, permanent road surface, gates, fencing, drainage, infilling, landscaping and tree and hedge removal and other incidental works,

  • Work No. 4—

    (a)

    a new underground gas pipeline connection and telemetry cabling, approximately 1.7 km in length connecting the natural gas receiving station and gas treatment compound in Work No. 1B to Work No. 3A;

    (b)

    pipeline field marker posts and cathodic protection test/ transformer rectifier unit;

    (c)

    below ground drainage works;

    (d)

    tree and hedge removal; and

    landscaping including tree planting, fencing and other boundary treatments and ecological mitigation.

  • Work No. 5—

    (a)

    400 kV substation and site office and welfare accommodation;

    (b)

    400 kV cable sealing end compound;

    (c)

    underground high voltage electrical cables and associated telemetry and electrical protection auxiliary cabling;

    (d)

    security infrastructure including perimeter fencing with gates, security cameras and site lighting;

    (e)

    landscaping including bunds, tree planting, fencing and other boundary treatments and ecological mitigation;

    (f)

    site drainage and waste management infrastructure; and

    (g)

    internal roadways, car parking, pedestrian network and hardstanding for planned maintenance.

  • Work No. 6—

    (a)

    an underground 400 kV electrical cable circuit and associated telemetry and electrical protection auxiliary cabling, approximately 1.6 km in length; and

    (b)

    joint bays in relation to Work No. 6a.

  • Work No. 7 – new means of access between Work No. 5 and the A140 including road widening, new turning lane, signing and road markings works, permanent road surface, gates, fencing, drainage, infilling, landscaping and tree and hedge removal and other incidental works,

  In connection with Works No. 1 to 7, and to the extent that they do not otherwise form part of any such works, further associated development comprising such other works or operations as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of or in connection with the construction, operation and maintenance of the works in this Schedule whether or not shown on the plans referred to in the Requirements falling within the scope of the works assessed in the environmental statement.