The Hornsea Three Offshore Wind Farm Order 2020

Construction monitoringE+W

19.—(1) The undertaker must in discharging condition 14(1)(f) submit a construction monitoring plan or plans for written approval by the MMO in consultation with the relevant statutory nature conservation body, which shall include details of any proposed construction monitoring, including methodologies and timings, and a proposed format, content and timings for providing reports on the results. The survey proposals must be in general accordance with the principles set out in the in-principle monitoring plan and must specify each survey's objectives and explain how it will assist in either informing a useful and valid comparison with the pre-construction position and/or will enable the validation or otherwise of key predictions in the environmental statement.

(2) Subject to receipt from the undertaker of specific proposals pursuant to this condition the construction monitoring plan must include in outline details of vessel traffic monitoring by automatic identification system for the duration of the construction period including obligations to report annually to the MMO, Trinity House and the MCA during the construction phase of the authorised development.

(3) The undertaker must carry out the surveys specified within the construction monitoring plan or plans in accordance with that plan or plans unless otherwise agreed in writing by the MMO in consultation with the relevant statutory nature conservation body.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 12 Pt. 2 para. 19 in force at 22.1.2021, see art. 1