The North Blyth Biomass Power Station Order 2013

1.  In Northumberland the construction use and maintenance of a nationally significant infrastructure project as defined in sections 14(1)(a) and 15 of the 2008 Act comprising—

Work No. 1 — an electricity generating station located on the eastern side of Battleship Wharf, Port of Blyth with a nominal gross electrical output capacity of up to 99.9 MWe fuelled by biomass and including—

(a)boiler house;

(b)main stack;

(c)turbine hall;

(d)workshop and maintenance building;

(e)pump house and associated equipment for steam cycle systems;

(f)two fuel storage sheds located to the north and the south of the turbine hall and boiler house;

(g)day fuel storage shed located to the east of the turbine hall;

(h)road vehicle discharge facility;

(i)railway discharge and reception facility;

(j)control room and administration buildings (with provision for visitor facility);

(k)supplementary liquid fuel storage facility and associated distribution system;

(l)bottom ash and fly ash handling and storage facility together with lorry transhipment and discharge facility;

(m)processing plant including—

(i)flue gas treatment facility;

(ii)water treatment plant;

(iii)raw water storage facility;

(iv)demineralised water storage facility;

(n)storage facilities for chemicals and sand for use in combustion and gas clean-up;

(o)substation;

(p)conveyor system attached to and connecting with buildings (a), (f), (g), (h), and (i);

(q)internal site roads, footways and vehicle parking facilities;

(r)weighbridge;

(s)security building and gatehouse;

(t)external enclosed conveyor and mobile hopper system including transfer points leading from Berth 4 Battleship Wharf at ordnance survey national grid reference point NZ 30834 82861 to Work No. 1(p);

(u)water intake system from the estuary of the River Blyth under Berth 4 of the Commission’s Battleship Wharf at ordnance survey national grid reference point NZ 30836 82822 consisting of a screened intake, underground pumping chamber, above ground access and pump house building and underground pipe running east from the estuary of the River Blyth and leading to a condenser within Work No. 1(c);

(v)up to two water outfall pipes running underground from Work No. 1(c) at ordnance survey national grid reference point NZ 31068 82736 in an easterly direction and under the railway of the Port of Blyth, then the highway of North Blyth Road, the railway from North Blyth to Bedlington then under the foreshore and the North Sea and the rock outcrop known as the Rockers to a diffuser on the sea bed referred to in sub-paragraph (w);

(w)a diffuser and foundation on the sea bed of the North Sea at ordnance survey national grid reference point NZ 32025 83375.