UK Statutory Instrument
2025
United Kingdom
The Rampion 2 Offshore Wind Farm Order 2025
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3 compliance obligations
What this Act requires
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Schedules
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Offshore Decommissioning
Provision of landscaping
Implementation and maintenance of landscaping
Biodiversity net gain
Highway accesses outside the South Downs National Park
Highway accesses in the South Downs National Park
Operational drainage management
(1) No works to construct the extension of the National...
Onshore Archaeology
Detailed offshore design parameters
Public rights of way
Open access land
Code of construction practice
Onshore construction method statement
Construction traffic management plan
Contamination risk
Coastal erosion
Operation phase maintenance
(1) The authorised development must not be brought into commercial...
Control of noise during operational phase
(1) There must be no more than 3 offshore substations....
Control of artificial light emissions during operational phase
(1) Work No. 20 must not commence, excluding onshore site...
Operational Travel Plan
Skills and Employment Strategy
Construction Communication Plan
Onshore decommissioning
Primary Surveillance Radar Mitigation
Instrument flight procedures
Vegetation retention and removal
Horsham District mitigation and enhancement
The total volume of scour protection comprising development associated with...
Public rights of way and landscape enhancement
National Park enhancement and furtherance
European protected species licence
Site-specific plan for the detailed design approval of the temporary construction compounds at Washington and Climping
Crossing Schedule
Requirement for written approval
Amendments to approved details
(1) The total number of cable circuits must be no...
Cable parameters
Onshore substation parameters
Site-specific plan for the detailed design approval of the onshore substation at Oakendene
Detailed design approval – extension to National Grid substation
The enactments for the time being in force with respect...
(1) Without limitation on the scope of paragraph 1, the...
(1) Without limitation on the scope of paragraph 1, the...
Application of Part 1 of the 1965 Act
(1) The modifications referred to in paragraph 4(a) are as...
The undertaker must give written notice to Network Rail if...
The undertaker must no later than 28 days from the...
In relation to any dispute arising under this part of...
Force majeure
Pre-construction plans and documentation
(1) Each programme, statement, plan, protocol or scheme required to...
Safety Zones
Offshore safety management
Reporting of engaged agents, contractors and vessels
Pre-construction monitoring and surveys
Construction monitoring
Post-construction monitoring
Monitoring of underwater noise from piling
Timing of monitoring report
Updating of cable monitoring plan
Piling
Reporting of cable protection
Decommissioning
Completion of construction
Herring piling restriction
Reporting of impact pile driving
Piling restriction
Force majeure
Pre-construction plans and documentation
(1) Each programme, statement, plan, protocol or scheme required to...
Safety Zones
Offshore safety management
Reporting of engaged agents, contractors and vessels
Pre-construction monitoring and surveys
Construction monitoring
Post-construction monitoring
Monitoring of underwater noise from piling
Timing of monitoring report
Updating of cable monitoring plan
Piling
Reporting of cable protection
Decommissioning
Completion of construction
Herring piling restriction
Reporting of impact pile driving
Piling restriction
Applications made for certain approvals
Further information
Fees
Appeals
Interpretation of Schedule 14
Primary objective
Time periods
Timetable
Procedure
Arbitrator’s powers
Costs
Confidentiality
In this Part 1 of Schedule 17— “the FFC SPA”...
Results from the monitoring and reporting scheme referred to in...
The Final KIMP approved under this Part 1 of Schedule...
In this Part 2 of Schedule 17— “the Farne Islands...
(1) No offshore works may commence until the undertaker has...
Where the undertaker elects to submit a Final GCIMP no...
Following consultation with OGEG, the Final GCIMP must be submitted...
The Final GCIMP (if required) must be based on the...
The undertaker must implement the measures set out in the...
Where the undertaker has confirmed that it intends to make...
Results from the monitoring and reporting scheme referred to in...
(1) No offshore works may commence until the undertaker has...
The Final GCIMP approved under this Part 2 of Schedule...
Where the undertaker elects to submit a Final KIMP no...
Following consultation with OKEG, the Final KIMP must be submitted...
The Final KIMP (if required) must be based on the...
Where the Final KIMP identifies the provision of artificial nesting...
The undertaker must implement the measures set out in the...
No operation of any wind turbine generator forming part of...
Where the undertaker has confirmed that it intends to make...
In the intertidal area
In the district of Arun, in the county of West Sussex
In the districts of Arun, Horsham and Mid Sussex in the county of West Sussex, and within the South Downs National Park
>In the district of Horsham, in the county of West Sussex
In the districts of Mid Sussex and Horsham, in the county of West Sussex
Further Works
Notifications and inspection
- Comply with all notification, inspection and reporting requirements for the offshore wind farm
Notifications and inspections
- Distribute licence, collect confirmations, provide access, and issue maritime notifications
Authority to survey and investigate the land onshore
- Give 14 days' notice before surveying land and obtain consents for trial pits
Browse 103 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
A nationally significant infrastructure project as defined in sections 14...
In this Part— “affected undertaker” means— any licence holder within...
Precedence of the 1991 Act in respect of apparatus in the streets
No acquisition etc. except by agreement
Removal of apparatus
Facilities and rights for alternative apparatus
Retained apparatus
(1) Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, the...
Expenses and costs
Nothing in this Part of this Schedule affects the provisions...
Enactments and agreements
Co-operation
Access
Arbitration
Notices
(1) The undertaker must pay to Network Rail all reasonable...
Network Rail must, on receipt of a request from the...
In the assessment of any sums payable to Network Rail...
The undertaker and Network Rail may, subject in the case...
Nothing in this Order, or in any enactment incorporated with...
Citation and commencement
Interpretation
Development consent etc. granted by the Order
Power to maintain the authorised project
Benefit of the Order
Application and modification of legislative provisions
Interaction with the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm Order 2014
Defence to proceedings in respect of statutory nuisance
Street works
Application of the 1991 Act
Temporary closure of streets
Public rights of way
Access to works
Agreements with street authorities
Power to alter layout etc. of streets
Temporary speed limits
Discharge of water
Protective work to buildings
Public rights of navigation
Temporary suspension of public access to access land
Compulsory acquisition of land
Time limit for exercise of authority to acquire land compulsorily or to take land temporarily
Compulsory acquisition of rights and imposition of restrictive covenants
Private rights over land
Power to override easements and other rights
Application of the 1981 Act
Modification of Part 1 of the 1965 Act
Acquisition of subsoil or airspace only
Rights under or over streets
Temporary use of land for carrying out the authorised project
Temporary use of land for maintaining the authorised project
Compulsory acquisition of land – incorporation of the mineral code
Statutory undertakers
Apparatus and rights of statutory undertakers in closed streets
Recovery of costs of new connections
Special Category Land
Operation of generating station
Deemed marine licences under the 2009 Act
Application of landlord and tenant law
Operational land for purposes of the 1990 Act
Felling or lopping of trees and removal of hedgerows
Trees subject to tree preservation orders
Abatement of works abandoned or decayed
Procedure in relation to certain approvals etc.
Arbitration
Saving provisions for Trinity House
Crown rights
Certification of plans and documents, etc.
Protective provisions
Funding
No double recovery
Disregard of certain improvements, etc
Set-off for enhancement in value of retained land
Service of notices
Compensation measures
landfall connection works comprising up to four cable circuits and...
onshore connection works consisting of up to four cable circuits...
Work No. 8—
onshore connection works at landfall consisting of—
onshore connection works consisting of— (a) up to four cable...
Work No. 10—
temporary construction compounds.
Work No. 11—
temporary soil storage area.
Work No. 12—
non-intrusive works for duct and cable installation preparation and stringing...
Work No. 13—
temporary construction accesses including creation of visibility splays and vegetation...
Work No. 14—
construction and operational accesses including creation of visibility splays and...
Work No.15— operational accesses including creation of visibility splays and...
onshore substation and associated construction works including—
Work No. 17—
environmental works to mitigate the impact of the substations comprising...
Work No. 18—
construction and operational access including drainage connecting Work No. 16...
onshore cable installation and associated works connecting Work No. 16...
Work No. 20—
an extension to the existing National Grid substation at Bolney...
In connection with such Work Nos. 1 to 6 and...
Onshore
In connection with such Work Nos. 6 to 20 and...
and in each case such other works, apparatus, plant and...
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