Announcements

NAVITUS BAY WIND PARK
SECTIONS 91 AND 93 PLANNING ACT 2008
RULE 13(6) INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING (EXAMINATION PROCEDURE) RULES 2010 THE PROPOSED NAVITUS BAY WIND PARK ORDER APPLICATION REFERENCE: EN010024
NOTIFICATION OF HEARINGS
NAVITUS BAY
1. Notice is given that issue specific hearings and an open floor hearing will be held by the Examining Authority for the examination of the application made by Navitus Bay Development Limited (the Applicant) of 1 Kingmaker Court, Warwick Technology Park, Warwick CV34 6WG for a Development Consent Order (DCO) under sections 14,15 and 37 of the Planning Act 2008 for the Navitus Bay Wind Park (the Application). The Application was made on 10 April 2014 and accepted on 8 May 2014 (reference: EN010024).

2. The hearings wiLL be heLd as indicated, for times pLease refer to the PLanning Inspectorate website beLow: http://infrastructure.pLanningportaL.gov.uk/projects/south-east/navitus-bay-wind-park/

5. A copy of the Application form and accompanying plans, maps and other documents may be inspected free of charge at the foLLowing pubLic Locations:
Location
Opening hours
- 7pm - 7pm
- 4pm
Poole Central Library, Dolphin Centre, Poole, BH15 1QE
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Hearings
Date Location
Issue Specific Hearings on the following:
? Marine & Coastal Physical Processes: Sediments Dynamics, Waste and Debris

? Commercial Fisheries and Fishing

? Offshore Water Quality, Offshore & Onshore Air Quality

? Operational and Navigational Safety

? Highways, Traffic and Transportation

? Drainage & Water Supply

? Biodiversity, Biological Environment & Ecology

? Tuesday 18th November 2014

? Wednesday 19th

November 2014
? Thursday 20th

November 2014
? Friday 21st

November 2014
Bournemouth Highcliff Marriott Hotel
St MichaeL's Road West Cliff
Bournemouth
BH2 5DU
Issue Specific Hearings on the following:
? DCO, DMLs & Policy background

? Noise, Vibration, Electromagnetic Field & Health Impacts

? Offshore & Onshore Heritage & Built Environment, including the World Heritage Site

? Landscape, Seascape & Visual Impacts & Design

? Socio Economic Impacts & Tourism

? Tuesday 25th

November 2014
? Wednesday 26th

November 2014
?Thursday 27th
November 2014
? Friday 28th November 2014

Wessex Hotel West Cliff Road
Bournemouth
BH2 5EU
Open Floor Hearing (Isle of Wight)
? Tuesday 2nd December 2014
Cowes Yacht Haven
VectisYard
High Street
Cowes
IsLe of Wight
PO31 7BD
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Monday
Tuesday cLosed
Wednesday
Thursday cLosed Friday
Saturdays 9.30am-4pm
West Moors Library, 203 Station Road, West Moors, Ferndown, BH22 0JD
Monday Tuesday Thursday
Friday
Saturday
5pm
Monday Tuesday Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Monday
Tuesday 9am- 5.30pm Wednesday 9am - 5.30pm Thursday 11am-7pm Friday 9am- 5.30pm
Saturday9am -5pm
3. The Application relates to the construction and operation of an offshore wind farm off the Dorset and Hampshire coast to the west of the IsLe of Wight.

4. The Application comprises up to 194 wind turbine generators (WTGs) with a maximum tip height of up to 200 metres, up to one meteorological mast, up to three offshore substations, inter-array cables that collect and transfer power generated by the WTGs to the offshore substations and export cables that take the electricity generated by the WTGs to shore. The onshore electrical works consist of underground cables running from mean low water at the Taddiford Gap between Barton-on-Sea and Milford-on-Sea to a new onshore substation in proximity to the National Grid substation at Mannington in Dorset and an underground connection between the two substations.

6. All application documents are also available online on the Planning Inspectorate's website at http://infrastructure.pLanningportaL.gov.uk/projects/south-east/navitus-bay-wind-park/