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.

The Examining Authority has issued a letter to all interested parties, informing them that it completed its examination at 11.59pm on 11 March 2014.

The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change has written to SMart Wind, declining their request for an extension to the examination.

Request to extend the examination
A written request was received from SMart Wind Ltd as agents on behalf of Heron Wind Ltd, Njord Ltd and Vi Aura Ltd (developer of Hornsea Offshore Wind Farms project 1) and Optimus Wind Ltd and Breesea Ltd (developer of Hornsea Offshore Wind Farms project 2) on 11 March 2014 to extend the time period of the current examination timetable. The Secretary of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change will consider this request and make a decision in due course.

An additional submission from Smart Wind relating to relating to C.Gen Killingholme Limited’s Paper of Amendments, PART 7 and the Commentary on Protective Provisions for the Hornsea Project Companies has been published.

The Examining Authority has issued a procedural decision and variation to the timetable dated 10 March 2014.

The Examination Authority has issued a procedural decision and a variation to the timetable dated 7 March 2014.

The Examining Authority has issued a procedural decision and variation to the timetable dated 3 March 2014.

The following documents has been published:
- A procedural decision and variation to the timetable dated 25 February 2014
- An additional submission from SMart Wind Ltd accepted by the Examination Authority 25 February 2014

The Examining Authority has issued a procedural decision and variation to the timetable.

View the Examining Authority’s Report on the Implications for European Sites (RIES).

Also, the Examination Authority has issued a procedural decision and variation to the time table on 17 February 2014.

The audio files from the Compulsory Acquisition hearings on 11 – 13 February and the S.127 hearing on 12 February have now been published.

11 February audio files

12 February audio files

13 February audio file

The audio files from the Issue Specific hearings on 4, 5 and 6 February have now been published:

4 February audio files

5 February audio files

6 February audio files

The Examining Authority has issued a procedural decision and variation to the timetable.

The agendas for the Compulsory Acquisition Hearing on 11 & 12 February 2014 and the s127 Hearings on 12 & 13 February 2014 have been published.

The Examining Authority has issued a procedural decision and variation to the timetable.

The comments on responses to the Examining Authorities second round of written questions have been published.

The agendas for the Issue Specific Hearings on the Draft DCO (4 Feb), Habitats, Ecology and Conservation (5 Feb) and Traffic and Transport (6 Feb) have been published.

The responses to the Examining Authority’s second round of written questions have been published.

The partial note covering the section of missing audio from the Issue Specific Hearing on the Draft Development Consent Order, held on the 20 November 2013, has been published.

The s.127 and s.138 applications and associated documents have been published.

The Examining Authority’s second round of questions have been published along with a notification of hearings and a procedural decision involving variations to the timetable.

View the Examining Authority’s letter

The summaries of the oral representations made at the hearings held between 20-22 November 2013 and 26-29 November have been published.

The audio recordings from the hearings held between 20-22 November 2013 and 26-29 November are now available

The response to the deadline of 2 December 2013 has been published.
View the response

A notice of the procedural decisions and variation to the examination timetable taken on 29 November 2013 has been issued.

The Panel has issued a letter giving notice of a procedural decision to accept two late submissions and a variation of the exam timetable

The responses to the rule 8 deadline of 11 November 2013 have been published.

The responses to the rule 8 deadline of the 14 October 2013 have been published.

The applicant’s cover letter relating to the Rule 8 letter deadline of the 14 October has been published.

The procedural decision relating to changes to the order limit has been published

The accepted documents have also been published

The developer’s comments on the submissions relating to the changes in the order limit have been published.

Responses to the proposed changes in the order limit have been published.

The errata list for North Killingholme has been published

The Audio files from the Preliminary Meeting has been published

Part 1 (MP3 43 MB)
Part 2 (MP3 90 MB)

The developer’s suggested changes to the order limit have been published.