The North Wales Wind Farms Connection (Correction) Order 2017

Statutory Instruments

2017 No. 501

Infrastructure Planning

The North Wales Wind Farms Connection (Correction) Order 2017

Made

30th March 2017

Coming into force

31st March 2017

The North Wales Wind Farms Connection Order 2016 (“the Order”)(1), which granted development consent within the meaning of the Planning Act 2008 (“the Act”)(2), contains correctable errors within the meaning of the Act(3).

Before the end of the relevant period, as defined in paragraph 1(6)(a) of Schedule 4 to the Act, the Secretary of State received a written request from the applicant(4) for the correction of errors and omissions in the Order.

In accordance with paragraph 1(7) of Schedule 4 to the Act, the Secretary of State has informed Conwy County Borough Council and Denbighshire County Council that the request has been received.

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 119 of, and paragraphs 1(4) and (8) of Schedule 4 to, the Act, makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the North Wales Wind Farms Connection (Correction) Order 2017 and comes into force on 31st March 2017.

Corrections

2.  The corrections to be made to the North Wales Wind Farms Connection Order 2016 are set out in the table in the Schedule to this Order, where—

(a) column 1 sets out where the correction is to be made;

(b) column 2 sets out how the correction is to be made; and

(c) column 3 sets out the text to be substituted, inserted or omitted.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Giles Scott

Head of Energy Infrastructure Planning and Coal Liabilities

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

30th March 2017

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Table

Where the correction is to be made	How the correction is to be made	Text to be substituted, inserted or omitted
Article 3(2)	After “corresponding”, insert	“numbered line or within the corresponding”
Article 9(2)(a)	For “altering”, substitute	“alter”
Schedule 2, Requirement 1, definition of “planning consent”, sub-paragraph (d)	For “Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) Order 1995”, substitute	“Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995”
Schedule 7, paragraph 1	For “swet”, substitute	“set”
Schedule 10, paragraph 1(1)(a)	Before “authority”, insert	“relevant”
Schedule 10, paragraph 5(3)	Before “authority”, insert	“relevant”
Schedule 10, paragraph 5(5)	Before “authority”, insert	“relevant”

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Order corrects errors and omissions in the North Wales Wind Farms Connection Order 2016, a development consent order made under the Planning Act 2008, following a request under paragraph 1(5)(a) of Schedule 4 to that Act.

(1)

S.I. 2016/818.

(2)

2008 c.29.

(3)

As provided for in Schedule 4 to the Act.

(4)

As defined in paragraph 4 of Schedule 4 to the Act.