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This note is designed to provide the reader with a background to the status of the onshore ecology Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for East Anglia THREE and FOUR offshore windfarms. Note that all onshore ornithology matters are covered by the Ornithology Expert Topic Group.
1.1 Background 2.
A time line leading up to DCO submission for both East Anglia THREE and East Anglia FOUR is displayed below. It is the intention that the Preliminary Environmental Information (PEI) (which will be a draft Environmental Statement (ES)) for both projects will submitted in May 2014 after which point effort will be focused on completing the final East Anglia THREE ES for submission in November 2014. The Final submission date for East Anglia FOUR is likely to be in Q2 of 2015. The Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) work will be progressed in parallel, it is expected that onshore ecology considerations will be screened out of further assessment in the initial stages of the HRA process (see section 4.5).
Preliminary
Scoping request Q4 2012
environmental
information submitted Q2 2014
Application submitted Q4 2014
Planning decision 2016
Construction commence 2018/2019
Environmental
Surveys commence and identification of individual projects Q1 2010
Publication of
The Statement of community consultation (SoCC) Q3 2013
Application submitted 2015
Planning decision 2017
Construction commence 2020
Evidence Plan
East Anglia THREE & East Anglia FOUR Offshore Windfarms