The North Blyth Biomass Power Station Order 2013

Details of licensed activities

2.—(1) The undertaker is authorised (and any agent, contractor or subcontractor acting on their behalf) to carry out the licensed activities, comprising the construction of works in or over the sea and/or on or under the sea bed specified in sub-paragraph (2) together with the deposit of any substances and objects in or over the sea and/or on or under the sea bed in carrying out such construction of works.

(2) Such activities are authorised in relation to the construction and operation of an electricity generating station located on the eastern side of Battleship Wharf, Port of Blyth with a nominal gross electrical output capacity of 99.9 MWe fuelled by biomass, more fully described in Schedule 1 to the Order.

(3) The construction of works in or over the sea and/or on or under the sea bed authorised are—

(a)a cooling water intake system in the estuary of the River Blyth under Berth 4 of the Commission’s Battleship Wharf at 55°08′19.689″N 001°31′04.197″W as part of Work No. 1(u) described in Schedule 1 to the Order and consisting of a screened water intake, connecting to an underground pumping chamber and underground pipe running east from the estuary of the River Blyth together with associated temporary placement of netting in the intertidal area;

(b)up to two cooling water outfall pipes running underground under the foreshore and sea bed at 55°08′16.855″N 001°30′51.124″W and under the rock outcrop known as the Rockers and including the construction of a diffuser and foundation on the sea bed at 55°08′37.307″N 001°29′56.825″W all as part of Work Nos. 1(v) and (w) described in Schedule 1 to the Order together with associated removal of silts and other sediments from the sea bed by diver using a mechanical vacuum to remove silt and sediment to a vessel, marine structure or floating container;

(c)installation and maintenance of an aid to navigation at 55°08′37.307″N 001°29′56.825″W to indicate the location of the diffuser to vessels as part of the associated development described in Schedule 1 to the Order; and

(d)works to strengthen the river wall in the estuary of the River Blyth at 55°08′06.712″N 001°30′46.786″W by the installation of a new bored pile wall on the landward side of the existing river wall together with related works as part of Work No. 2 described in Schedule 1 to the Order.