Hornsea Three Compulsory Purchase Order

On 14 March 2024 the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero confirmed with modifications the Orsted Hornsea Project Three (UK) Limited (Ferry Road, Hartlepool) Compulsory Purchase Order. The Order enables Hornsea Three to acquire new rights in, on and over the section of Ferry Road shown coloured blue on the enclosed map (the “Order land") to enable it to access the Site and to lay, use and maintain new utilities required to construct and operate the ANS on the Site.

Notice of Confirmation of the Order will be published in the TeessideLive (in print and online) on 11 April 2024, from which date the Order will become operative. A copy of the confirmed Order and Map may also be inspected at Community Hub Central, 124 York Rd, Hartlepool TS26 9DE and may be seen on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 10am to 4pm.

Electronic copies of the Core Documents are available to download free of charge using the links below. Hard copies of the Core Documents are available, free of charge, on request by contacting HornseaProjectThree@orsted.com.

Statement of Case of the Acquiring Authority

Appendix

1. Written Resolution of the Board of Directors of Orsted Hornsea Project Three (UK) Limited made on 28 June 2023

2. Map referred to in the Orsted Hornsea Project Three (UK) Limited (Ferry Road Hartlepool) Compulsory Purchase Order 2023

2. Orsted Hornsea Project Three (UK) Limited (Ferry Road Hartlepool) Compulsory Purchase Order 2023

3. Electricity generation licence dated 24 January 2017

4. Statement of Reasons for the Order

5. General certificate in support of the order submission (Section 13 of the CPO Guidance) dated 14 August 2023 

6. Nil return Protected Assets Certificate relating to listed buildings and conservation areas (Section 22 of the CPO Guidance) dated 14 August 2023 

7. Appeal Decision letter from the Planning Inspectorate (APP/H0724/W/22/3309272) dated 13 March 2023

8. Hornsea Project Three Offshore Wind Farm, Response to the Secretary of State’s Minded to Approve Letter – Annex 3 to Appendix 2: Kittiwake Artificial Nest Provisioning: Site Selection and the Pathway to Securement, September 2020

9. Sawkill -v- Highways England Company Ltd [2020] EWHC 801 (Admin)

10. R (on the application of Sharp) v North Essex Magistrates’ Court [2017] EWCA Civ 1143

11. Summary of Site Selection Process for ANS (October 2023)

12. Kittiwake Implementation and Monitoring Plan (December 2022)

13. Hornsea Three Offshore Wind Farm Amendment Order 2023

13. Hornsea Three Offshore Wind Farm Correction Order 2021

13. The Hornsea Three Offshore Wind Farm Order 2020

14. Hartlepool Borough Council Committee Report dated 27 January 2022

15. Refusal of Planning Permission (H/2022/0009) dated 28 June 2022

16. Site Selection Narrative Report (December 2022)