Planning Consent Submitted

On 12 June 2024, RWE Renewables UK Dogger Bank South (West) Limited and RWE Renewables UK Dogger Bank South (East) Limited submitted a joint application for a Development Consent Order (DCO) for the Dogger Bank South Offshore Wind Farms to the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, via the Planning Inspectorate, under the Planning Act 2008. The single application (Planning Inspectorate reference EN010125) covers both Dogger Bank South West (DBS West) and Dogger Bank South East (DBS East), together referred to as the Projects. It seeks consent for the construction, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the two offshore wind farms in the North Sea on the Dogger Bank, along with all associated onshore and offshore infrastructure needed to connect them to the national grid. The application describes a combined development of up to 200 turbines, with the DBS West and DBS East array areas located at minimum distances of approximately 100km and 122km from shore respectively. It includes buried onshore export cables from a landfall near Skipsea in East Riding of Yorkshire to up to two new onshore converter stations near the hamlet of Bentley, and onward cable routing to the proposed Birkhill Wood National Grid substation near the existing Creyke Beck substation. As Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects, the schemes require a DCO that would also authorise compulsory acquisition of land and rights, temporary and permanent use of land, alterations to the public highway network, temporary stopping up or management of highways and public rights of way, and various street works and legislative modifications, supported by a full Environmental Statement and other application documents made available for public inspection.