Orsted Hornsea Project - Public Enquiry

NOTICE OF PUBLIC INQUIRY
THE ORSTED HORNSEA PROJECT THREE (UK) LIMITED (FERRY ROAD, HARTLEPOOL)
COMPULSORY PURCHASE ORDER 2023
RULE 11 OF THE COMPULSORY PURCHASE (INQUIRIES PROCEDURE)
RULES 2007
ELECTRICITY ACT 1989 AND THE ACQUISITION OF LAND ACT 1981
WHEREAS Orsted Hornsea Project Three (UK) Limited (incorporated in England and Wales with company number 08584210
and whose registered office is at 5 Howick Place, London, England, SW1P 1WG)) (the “Acquiring Authority”) has submitted to
the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero for confirmation of the Orsted Hornsea Project Three (UK) Limited (Ferry
Road, Hartlepool) Compulsory Purchase Order 2023 (the “Order”), an order made under section 10 of and paragraph 1 of
Schedule 3 to the Electricity Act 1989, which would authorise it to acquire compulsorily new rights described below for the
purpose of carrying out the activities authorised by its licence under the Electricity Act 1989 and more particularly to facilitate the
Acquiring Authority and all persons authorised on its behalf to access and lay services to land lying to the east of Coastwatch
Office, Ferry Road, Hartlepool, TS24 0YE (as registered at HM Land Registry under title number CE147445) (the “Site”) for the
purposes of demolishing the existing yacht club building and constructing and maintaining artificial nesting structures (“ANS”) for
kittiwakes and to install, use and maintain services in connection with the ANS as compensatory measures pursuant toThe
Hornsea Three Offshore Wind Farm Order 2020 (as amended).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public local inquiry into this matter will be held by Mr Patrick Hanna at Hartlepool College of
Further Education, Stockton Street, Hartlepool, TS24 7NT commencing on Tuesday 30 January 2024 at 10am and is currently
anticipated to last up to four days (resuming at 9.30am on each subsequent morning).
A copy of the Order and of the accompanying map may be seen at Community Hub Central, 124 York Rd, Hartlepool TS26 9DE
(on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 10am to 4pm). Electronic copies of the Order, the order map and other
relevant documents are available to download free of charge at
www.hornseaproject3.co.uk/hornsea-three-compulsory- purchase-order.
SCHEDULE
Description of land
The land subject to the Order is an existing private road which adjoins the Site and continues for approximately 175 metres along
Ferry Road until it meets the existing publicly adopted highway. In addition to providing access to the Site, Ferry Road provides
access to the RNLI Hartlepool Lifeboat Station, industrial land, six fisher cabins and to Middleton Jetty. The surface of the land
subject to the Order varies from a hard surface with tarmacadam to unmade with a loose gravel surface, with utility chambers,
surface drainage, streetlights and other street furniture throughout. There are narrow verges of naturally occurring vegetation and
fences on both sides of Ferry Road.
Summary of the new rights
Rights to pass with or without vehicles, plant and machinery and equipment over an existing access road to gain access to and
egress from the Site.
Rights to lay, construct, use, maintain and upgrade an access road to the Site.
Rights to lay, construct use, maintain, protect and access electric cables and all associated ancillary equipment (including but not
limited to access chambers, manholes and marker posts) and associated works, connections to other electric cables and other
conducting media and all the ducts, conduits, gutters or pipes for containing them to be laid.
Rights to existing services.
Rights to remove any obstructions on the access road or prevent works which may interfere with or damage any pipes, drains
and cables.
The rights are subject to provisions relating to diversions at the request of the landowner.
Dated this 11 January 2024
Helen Gray
Senior Land & Property Manager
Orsted Hornsea Project Three (UK) Limited