Application Documents
Application Form
This category contains the Covering Letter to PINS, the Application Form, a Navigation document and Copies of Newspaper Notices publicising consultation.
Plans
This category contains the various plans provided to accompany the Application.
Development Consent Order
The category contains the Draft Development Content Order (DCO) and the Explanatory Memorandum. The draft DCO contains the legal powers which are being applied for in order to construct and operate the Project. It also incorporates two deemed Marine Licences, for the array assets and export cable respectively. The Explanatory Memorandum explains the purpose and effect of each provision of the draft DCO.
Compulsory Acquisition Information
This category contains compulsory acquisition information comprising the Statement of Reasons, Funding Statement and Book of Reference.
Reports/Statements
This category contains various reports and statements that are required to be provided in support of the Application. The Consultation Report presents the consultation activities which NBDL has carried out in relation to its proposals for the Project, the responses to these consultation activities and how the proposals for the Project have taken those responses into account. The Statement of Engagement with the Environmental Protection Act 1990 explains whether the Project would cause any statutory nuisance.
To inform the Habitat Regulations Assessment (HRA), the screening report and the HRA report contain the information necessary for the competent authority to carry out the appropriate assessment required under the relevant habitat legislation. This category also contains details of consents and licences which are required under other legislation.
Environmental Statement
This category contains the Environmental Statement, the Non-Technical Summary, the IPC Scoping Opinion and the Schedule of Mitigation. The Environmental Statement sets out the assessment of the likely significant impacts of the Navitus Bay Project on the environment.
Additional Information
This category contains the Cable Statement which provides details of the proposed offshore and onshore cable route and cable installation methods and the Safety Zone Statement which sets out whether safety zones will be applied for.
Other Documents
This category contains various additional documents which NBDL has chosen to submit in support of its Application. The Offshore Illustrative Drawings are intended to assist in understanding how the form of the development might appear. The Design and Access Statement has been produced to describe the physical characteristics of the proposed development and early considerations given to the design of, and access to, the development. The Public Rights of Way Strategy identifies the public rights of way crossings that will be affected by construction of the onshore works and proposed approaches to closing or suspending the public right to use them. It is intended that the principles in this Strategy would inform a more detailed document to be approved pre-construction under the DCO.
The Planning Statement presents and reviews the Project proposals within the context of planning policy. The Code of Construction Practice presents the minimum standards of construction practice that the Project will require of its contractors. These standards would be incorporated in a detailed Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP) post-consent and agreed with the relevant planning authority. The Outline Marine Traffic and Navigation Monitoring Strategy has been requested by the Maritime Coastguard Agency in advance of the start of construction. It is intended that the principles in this Strategy would inform a more detailed document to be approved pre-construction under the DMLs.
