Planning Consent Submitted

On 21 August 2013, Forewind submitted the original application for development consent for the Dogger Bank Creyke Beck offshore wind project under the UK Planning Act 2008. The subsequent Secretary of State decision letter, later issued in the context of a non‑material change, records that this development consent application was formally lodged on that date, establishing the legal and procedural starting point for securing a Development Consent Order (DCO) for the scheme. The DCO application covered two offshore wind farms – referred to as Project A and Project B – each with an electrical generating capacity of up to 1,200 MW, located on the Dogger Bank in the North Sea, together with associated offshore infrastructure and export cables making landfall at Ulrome and continuing via underground cabling to the National Grid connection at Creyke Beck near Cottingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire.[1] The Planning Inspectorate’s project information confirms that Dogger Bank Creyke Beck is a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) application of type “Generating Stations”, promoted by Forewind, and that the application progressed through the statutory NSIP stages – pre‑application, acceptance, pre‑examination, examination and recommendation – before being granted on 17 February 2015.[2] Submission of the DCO application in August 2013 therefore marked the transition from pre‑application consultation and environmental documentation into the formal consenting process, enabling examination by an appointed Examining Authority and eventual decision by the relevant Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008 framework.[1][2]