Near Cottingham, East Riding Of Yorkshire - Compulsory Purchase Of Land And New Rights
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THE NATIONAL GRID ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION (BIRKHILL WOOD SUBSTATION PROJECT) COMPULSORY PURCHASE ORDER 2025
COMPULSORY PURCHASE OF LAND AND NEW RIGHTS NEAR COTTINGHAM, EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE
Notice is hereby given that National Grid Electricity Transmission Plc has prepared in draft the National Grid Electricity Transmission (Birkhill Wood Substation Project) Compulsory Purchase Order 2025 under section 10 of and paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Electricity Act 1989. It is about to submit this order to the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero for confirmation, and if confirmed, the order will authorise National Grid Electricity Transmission Plc to purchase compulsorily the land and the new rights described below for the purpose of carrying on the activities authorised by its transmission licence under the 1989 Act, and more particularly to facilitate the connection of third party connectees to the national electricity transmission network, reconfiguration of existing overhead lines and provision of new electricity pylons together with a new vehicular access from the A1079 to serve a new access road to the new substation with onward connection to the existing Creyke Beck substation.
A copy of the order and of the accompanying map have been deposited at the following locations and may be seen at all reasonable hours at: Cottingham Centre, Market Green, Cottingham HU16 5QG Greenwood Avenue Library, 220 Greenwood Avenue, Hull HU6 9RU Beverley Library, Champney Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley HU17 8HE
A copy of the order and of the accompanying map may be viewed online at
Any objection to the order must be made in writing to the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Energy Infrastructure Planning Delivery Team, 3-8 Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2AW and/or to
john.mckenna@energysecurity.gov.uk
before 16 December 2025 and should state the title of the order, the grounds of objection and the objector’s address and interests in the land.
DESCRIPTION OF LAND AND THE NEW RIGHTS
Freehold Acquisition at agricultural land south of Beverley Bypass, A1079 and north of Birkhill Wood; wind turbine and hardstanding south of Poplar Farm and east of Birkhill Wood; agricultural land and drains east of Poplar Farm and south of Beverley Bypass, A1079; electricity apparatus north of Cottingham Parks and south of Beverley Bypass, A1079; agricultural land, hedgerow and drain south of Beverley Bypass, A1079 and west of Wanlass Farm; access way to Wanlass Farm south of Beverley Bypass, A1079 and north of Creyke Beck; agricultural land north of Creyke Beck and south of Wanlass Farm and electricity cables
The following Rights
Construction Access Rights: rights to access the land, with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment, materials and personnel for the purposes of or incidental to constructing, installing, commissioning, altering and inspecting, the overhead electrical lines, substation and associated infrastructure, and installing, altering or reinstating land drainage systems;
Construction Compound Rights: all rights necessary for the purposes of or incidental to the establishment, use and removal of works compounds associated with the construction and commissioning of the electric cables and/or the construction, commissioning and decommissioning of the electric lines
Overhead Line Rights: all rights necessary at all times for the purposes of or incidental to the construction, retention, use, operation, protection, maintenance, surveying, testing, repair, alteration, renewal, replacement, commissioning and removal and decommissioning of the overhead electricity lines and associated infrastructure
Permanent Access Rights: all rights necessary to access the land at all times with or without vehicles, plant, machinery, apparatus, equipment (including without limitation scaffolding), materials and personnel, to exercise the Overhead Line Rights and/or the Construction Compound Rights and for purposes of or incidental to constructing installing repairing replacing commissioning decommissioning altering and inspecting the substation and associated infrastructure
Covering:
agricultural land (south of Beverley Bypass, A1079 and north of Birkhill Wood); agricultural land (south of Beverley Bypass, A1079 and north of Birkhill Wood) and public bridleway (ROWLB13); agricultural land and pipeline (Teesside to Saltend Ethylene Pipeline, south of Beverley Bypass, A1079 and north of Birkhill Wood); agricultural land (south of Beverley Bypass, A1079 and north of Birkhill Wood) and public bridleway (WOODB30); agricultural land and drain (south of Beverley Bypass, A1079 and north of Birkhill Wood); agricultural land (south of Beverley Bypass, A1079) and public bridleway (WOODB30); agricultural land, drain and pipeline (Teesside to Saltend Ethylene Pipeline, south of Beverley Bypass, A1079 and north of Birkhill Wood); drain and hedgerow (south of Beverley Bypass, A1079 and north of Birkhill Wood); agricultural land (east of Poplar Farm and south of Beverley Bypass, A1079); agricultural land (south of Beverley Bypass, A1079 and east of Birkhill Wood); agricultural land, drain (south of Beverley Bypass, A1079 and east of Birkhill Wood), public bridleway (WOODB06) and National Cycle Network Route (Route 1); agricultural land, access track and pipeline (Teesside to Saltend Ethylene Pipeline, south of Beverley Bypass, A1079 and north of Birkhill Wood), public bridleway (WOODB06) and National Cycle Network Route (Route 1); agricultural land, (south of Beverley Bypass, A1079 and north of Poplar Farm), public bridleway (WOODB06), National Cycle Network Route (Route 1) and electricity cables and pylon; agricultural land and drain (south of Poplar Farm and east of Birkhill Wood); agricultural land, (south of Beverley Bypass, A1079 and north of Poplar Farm), public footpath (WOODF07), public bridleway (WOODB06) and National Cycle Network Route (Route 1); agricultural land, drains (south of Poplar Farm and east of Birkhill Wood), public bridleways (SKIDB07 and WOODB06) and National Cycle Network Route (Route 1); agricultural land (east of Poplar Farm and south of Beverley Bypass, A1079), public bridleway (WOODB06) and National Cycle Network Route (Route 1); agricultural land and drain (west of Wanlass Farm and east of Cottingham Parks); agricultural land and drain (south of Beverley Bypass, A1079 and west of Wanlass Farm); agricultural land (south of Beverley Bypass, A1079 and west of Wanlass Farm); agricultural land, drain (east of Poplar Farm and south of Beverley Bypass, A1079), public bridleways (SKIDB07 and WOODB06) and National Cycle Network Route (Route 1); public bridleway (SKIDB07) and National Cycle Network Route (Route 1); agricultural land and hedgerow (north of Creyke Beck and west of Wanlass Farm), public bridleway (SKIDB07) and National Cycle Network Route (Route 1); agricultural land (north of Creyke Beck and west of Wanlass Farm); agricultural land (north of Creyke Beck and west of Wanlass Farm), public bridleway (SKIDB07) and National Cycle Network Route (Route 1); access way to Wanlass Farm (south of Beverley Bypass, A1079 and north of Creyke Beck)
Dated: 2 December 2025
Signed:
James Tomison
Project Director
National Grid Electricity Transmission Plc
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