3.—(1) Taken together with works authorised and proposed to be constructed pursuant to licence 2 (transmission)—
(a)the total number of offshore electrical platforms forming part of the authorised scheme must not exceed two;
(b)the total amount of scour protection for the offshore electrical platforms forming part of the authorised scheme must not exceed 20,000m2 and 100,000 m3 and must not exceed the distributed quantities of scour protection set out in Table 1 of the outline scour protection and cable protection plan;
(c)the total amount of inert material of natural origin disposed within the offshore Order limits as part of the authorised scheme must not exceed 7,275,000 m3;
(d)the total amount of disposal for drill arisings in connection with any foundation drilling must not exceed 14,137m3;
(e)the total length of cable and the amount of cable protection must not exceed the figures stated in condition 2 of this licence;
(f)in the Haisborough, Hammond and Winterton Special Area of Conservation, the total area of cable protection must not exceed 24,000m2 and the total volume of cable protection must not exceed 13,600m3; and
(g)in the Haisborough, Hammond and Winterton Special Area of Conservation, cable protection must not take the form of rock or gravel dumping where it is deployed to protect export cables apart from at cable crossing locations with existing cables and pipelines.
(2) Save where an equivalent notification has been given under condition 8 of the generation licence, prior to the commencement of the authorised scheme the undertaker must give notice to the MMO detailing—
(a)whether the authorised scheme will be —
(i)commenced under scenario 1 or scenario 2; and
(ii)constructed in a single offshore phase under this licence; or in two offshore phases under this licence and licence 2 (transmission).
(3) Where the authorised scheme will be constructed in two offshore phases the undertaker must give notice to the MMO detailing the total number of offshore electrical platforms to be constructed in each phase.
(4) In the event of scenario 1, the undertaker may commence either Work No. 3A or Work No. 3B and, for the avoidance of doubt, must not commence both of Work No. 3A and Work No. 3B.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 11 Pt. 4 para. 3 in force at 1.1.2022, see art. 1