The Norfolk Vanguard Offshore Wind Farm Order 2022

Certification of plans etc E+W+S

37.—(1) The undertaker must, as soon as practicable after the making of this Order, submit to the Secretary of State copies of the following for certification that they are true copies of the documents referred to in this Order—

(a) the environmental statement (document reference 6.1);

(b) the land plan (document reference 2.2);

(c) the works plan (document reference 2.4);

(d) the access to works plan (document reference 2.5);

(e) the temporary stopping up of public rights of way plan (document reference 2.6);

(f) the streets to be temporarily stopped up plan (document reference 2.7);

(g) the important hedgerows plan (document reference 2.11);

(h) the book of reference (4.3);

(i) the outline code of construction practice (8.1);

(j) the design and access statement (8.3);

(k) the outline written scheme of investigation (onshore) (8.5);

(l) the outline written scheme of investigation (offshore) (8.6);

(m) the outline landscape and ecological management strategy (8.7);

(n) the outline traffic management plan (8.8);

(o) the outline travel plan (8.9);

(p) the outline access management plan (8.10);

(q) the outline offshore operations and maintenance plan (8.11);

(r) the offshore in principle monitoring plan (8.12);

(s) the draft marine mammal mitigation protocol (8.13);

(t) the outline project environmental management plan (document reference 8.14);

(u) the outline scour protection and cable protection plan (document reference 8.16);

(v) the in principle Norfolk Vanguard Southern North Sea Special Area of Conservation site integrity plan (8.17);

(w) the outline marine traffic monitoring strategy (8.18);

(x) the outline fisheries liaison and co-existence plan (8.19);

(y) the outline Norfolk Vanguard Haisborough, Hammond and Winterton Special Area of Conservation site integrity plan (8.20);

(z) the outline operational drainage plan (8.21);

(aa) the outline skills and employment strategy (8.22);

(bb) the Development Principles (8.23);

(cc) the Onshore Project Substation Masterplan (8.27); the Alde-Ore Estuary Special Protection Area (SPA) – In Principle Compensation (8.24);

(dd) the Haisborough, Hammond and Winterton Special Area of Conservation (SAC) – In Principle Compensation (8.25); and

(ee) the Flamborough and Filey Coast Special Protection Area (SPA) – In Principle Compensation (8.26).

(2) The outline landscape and ecological management strategy referred to at paragraph (1)(m) shall include the mitigations that were agreed during the examination of the Norfolk Boreas Development Consent Order in order to avoid a net loss of trees in relation to the proposed trenched crossing at Colby Road.

(3) The outline traffic management plan referred to at paragraph (1)(n) shall include the Highway Intervention and Highway Mitigation schemes that were agreed during the examination of the Norfolk Boreas Development Consent Order in order to reduce the residual traffic impacts on Cawston and the adverse effects of construction traffic on Link 68 at Oulton.

(4) Any other mitigations agreed during the examination of the Norfolk Boreas Development Consent Order in relation to Work Nos. 4B-12 shall be included in the relevant plan listed in paragraph (1) before submission to the Secretary of State for certification.

(5) A plan or document so certified is admissible in any proceedings as evidence of the contents of the document of which it is a copy.

(6) Where a plan or document certified under paragraph (1)—

(a) refers to a provision of this Order (including any specified requirement) when it was in draft form; and

(b) identifies that provision by a number, or combination of numbers and letters, which is different from the number, or combination of numbers and letters by which the corresponding provision of this Order is identified in the Order as made,

the reference in the plan or document concerned must be construed for the purposes of this Order as referring to the provision (if any) corresponding to that provision in the Order as made.

Commencement Information

I1 Art. 37 in force at 5.3.2022, see art. 1