Advice to Sally Holroyd DONG Energy
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- Sally Holroyd DONG Energy
- Date advice given
- 29 May 2013
- Enquiry type
Two emails were received from DONG Energy regarding: the size and scale of the offshore plans to be submitted with the application; and the required format of paragraph numbering in the Environmental Statement (including the annexes).
DONG Energy stated that it makes sense for offshore plans to be shown at a smaller scale than prescribed in the regulations, due to the level of detail on the offshore mapping compared to onshore, DONG Energy referred to two previous offshore applications which took this approach and were accepted.
DONG Energy queried which paragraph numbering system is considered most useful in the Environmental Statement and annex: where paragraphs are all consecutively numbered and not linked to section numbers, or where paragraph numbering restarts after each new section?
Advice given
DONG Energy were informed that although a small number of offshore applications have been accepted where the plans scale did not strictly comply with the regulations, it should be noted that in one example, further plans at the required scale were later requested by the Examining authority.
Paragraph numbers are required for the Environmental Statement (included annexes). Although there is no fixed requirement regarding the format of the numbering system, it could seem more helpful to re-start the paragraph numbering sequence after each new section (with the section number forming the start of the paragraph reference, to ensure the same paragraph number does not appear twice).