The Examining Authority issued its recommendation to the Secretary of State on 11 June 2014. A decision will be published within 3 months. Please note that the Examining Authority’s recommendation will also be made available at that point.

C.Gen Killingholme Limited submitted further documentation on 9 May 2014 in response to the consultation currently being undertaken by DECC during the Recommendation stage.

A further version of the Applicant’s Development Consent Order dated 11 March 2014 Version 6, was submitted by the Applicant on the last day of the examination. Although the covering letter accompanying the Development Consent Order Version 6 was published on the Planning Portal on 9 May 2014, due to an administrative error, the Applicant’s final version Development Consent Order was not published on the North Killingholme Project Page of the Planning Portal at the same time.

Interested Parties wishing to comment on the Development Consent Order Version 6 may do so. However, such comments will not be considered as part of the Examining Authority’s Report for recommendation, instead, forwarded to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change by the Planning Inspectorate for consideration.

Following the letter from the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change to SMart Wind Ltd, declining a request to extend the North Killingholme examination, a period up until midnight 11 April has been allowed for SMart Wind Ltd and the Applicant to supply agreed Protective Provisions or a joint statement setting out the issues relating to the proposed Protective Provisions on which they agree. Any party may wish to make separate representations relating to the proposed Protective Provisions – responses are sought by 11 April 2014.

Representations will be published on the National Infrastructure website on behalf of DECC for any other party to comment on and those representations and comments will be made available to the Secretary of State before a decision is made. The Examining Authority will not consider any such submissions submitted during the Recommendation Stage nor will they form part of their Recommendation Report, instead, these will be forwarded to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change alongside the Examining Authority’s Report for Recommendation.