A number of consents and licences are required for the construction and operation of Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm.

The applications for consent for Humber Gateway are accompanied by the three Environmental Statements prepared in accordance with EU and UK law. One will cover the offshore elements of the scheme, a second covers the onshore underground cable route and the third the new onshore substation.

Some of the consents that are required, by law, to build an offshore windfarm are explained below:

Offshore Consents and Licences

Consent for the offshore elements of the project (comprising the turbines, their foundations, the offshore substation, the inter array cables and the export cable to shore) will be sought from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR)   and also the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).

The principal licences and consents are:

• Consent under Section 36 of the Electricity Act (1989) to construct and operate the offshore wind farm, including all the ancillary infrastructure;
• Licence under the Section 5 of the Food and Environment Protection Act (1985) to deposit material on the sea bed such as turbine foundations and buried cables;
• Consent under Section 34 of the Coast Protection Act (1949) in order to make provision for the safety of navigation in relation to buried cables.

Onshore Planning Permission

Consent for the proposed underground cable route, associated works and a separate consent for a new substation will be sought from East Riding of Yorkshire Council (the local planning authority) under the Town and Country Planning Act (1990).