Planning Consent Submitted

Offshore Wind Power Limited (a Renewable Energy Systems / RES company, based at Beaufort House, 23 Grosvenor Road, St Albans) submitted an application under the Transport and Works Act 1992 to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry for the Inner Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm — a UK Round 1 project comprising 27 turbines (later built out at 3.6 MW each, contributing to the combined 194 MW Lynn and Inner Dowsing development). The Inner Dowsing Environmental Statement was prepared by Offshore Wind Power Limited with data collection from February 2003. Notice of the Secretary of State's determination was published in the London Gazette on 29 October 2003, and The Inner Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm Order 2003 (SI 2003/2831) was made on 29 October 2003 and came into force on 19 November 2003. Centrica Renewable Energy acquired the Inner Dowsing project in 2003 and merged it with the adjacent Lynn project to be developed as a single 194 MW unit. The TWA Order constitutes the project-wide development consent equivalent to a Section 36 application, hence classification as planning_consent_submitted. The exact submission month was not identifiable from publicly available sources.