Skip to main content
Find a National Infrastructure Project

Beta This is a beta service - your feedback will help us to improve it

Helios Renewable Energy Project Examination timetable

The examination timetable shows the dates of events and deadlines for submissions.

If you have registered to have your say, you can do this in the examination stage.

The examination stage

The examination opened on 3 December 2024

The examination is expected to close on 3 June 2025

Have your say

10 March 2025 - Hearings

Time reserved for hearings and Site Inspections w/c 10 March 2025

  • Issue Specific Hearings (ISH) (if required)
  • Compulsory Acquisition Hearing 2 (CAH2) (if required)
  • Open Floor Hearing 2 (OFH2) (if required)
  • Site Inspections (SI1) (if required)

20 March 2025 - Deadline 5 (D5)

Open

For receipt by the ExA of:

  • Post-Hearing Submissions, comprising written summaries of oral submissions made at the Hearings held on the week commencing 10 March 2025
  • Comments on any information requested/submissions received by Deadline 4
  • The Applicant’s updated documents (see Annex F, section 6 to the Rule 6 Letter (PD-001))
  • Updated PADs where any substantive changes have been made.
  • Any further information requested by ExA. Any further information requested by the ExA under Rule 17 of the Examination Rules

27 March 2025 - Publication of ExQ2

Publication by the ExA of:

  • The ExA's Second Written Questions (ExQ2)

9 April 2025 - Deadline 6 (D6)

For receipt by the ExA of:

  • Responses to the ExA’s Second Written Questions (ExQ2) (if these were issued)
  • Comments on any information requested/submissions received by Deadline 5
  • The Applicant’s updated documents (see Annex F, section 6 to the Rule 6 Letter (PD-001))
  • Updated PADs where any substantive changes have been made
  • Any further information requested by ExA. Any further information requested by the ExA under Rule 17 of the Examination Rules.

14 April 2025 - Hearings 2

Time reserved for hearings w/c 14 April 2025

  • Issue Specific Hearings (ISH) (if required)
  • Compulsory Acquisition Hearing 3 (CAH3) (if required)

24 April 2025 - Deadline 7 (D7)

For receipt by the ExA of:

  • Post-Hearing Submissions, comprising written summaries of oral submissions made at the Hearings held on the w/c 14 April 2025 (if these hearings were held)
  • Comments on any information requested/submissions received by Deadline 6
  • The Applicant’s updated documents (see Annex F, section 6 to the Rule 6 Letter (PD-001))
  • Updated PADs where any substantive changes have been made
  • Any further information requested by ExA. Any further information requested by the ExA under Rule 17 of the Examination Rules

2 May 2025 - Publications by ExA

Publication by the ExA of:

  • The ExA's Third Written Questions (ExQ3) (if required)
  • The ExA's commentary n, or schedule of changes to, the dDCO (if required)
  • Report on the Implications for European Sites (RIES) and any associated questions (if required)

16 May 2025 - Deadline 8 (D8)

For receipt by the ExA of:

  • Responses to the ExA’s Third Written Questions (ExQ3) (if these were issued)
  • Comments on the ExA’s commentary on, or schedule of changes to, the dDCO (if these were issued)
  • Comments on Report on the Implications for European Sites (RIES) and any associated questions (if it were issued)
  • Comments on any information requested/submissions received by Deadline 7
  • The Applicant’s updated documents (see Annex F, section 6 to the Rule 6 Letter (PD-001))
  • Updated PADs where any substantive changes have been made
  • Any further information requested by ExA. Any further information requested by the ExA under Rule 17 of the Examination Rules

23 May 2025 - Deadline 9 (D9)

For receipt by the ExA of:

  • Comments on any information requested/submissions received by Deadline 8
  • Final DCO and Explanatory Memorandum. Final DCO to be submitted by the Applicant in the SI template. Applicant to provide the email notification from https://publishing.legislation.gov.uk/validation confirming the document has successfully passed validation, and the PDF version of the SI validation report obtained from the link in the notification email. The Applicant should also provide a clean (all tracking removed) standalone MS Word version of the dDCO, with no header or cover page
  • Final updated BoR. Final BoR and schedule of changes to BoR
  • Final Statement of Reasons
  • Final SoCGs
  • Final Statement of Commonality of SoCG
  • List of matters not agreed where SoCG could not be finalised
  • Final Guide to the application
  • Final Status of Negotiations CA Schedule
  • Final Status of Negotiations with Statutory Undertakers
  • Final NPS tracker
  • Final Consents and Licences Position Statement
  • Final signed and dated section 106s
  • Final versions of any other of the Applicant’s documents that have been updated
  • Summary statement from the Applicant setting out any outstanding matters
  • Final PADs submitted by the relevant IPs
  • Any further information requested by ExA. Any further information requested by the ExA under Rule 17 of The Infrastructure Planning (Examination Procedure) Rules 2010

2 June 2025 - Deadline 10 (D10)

For receipt by the ExA of:

  • Any further information requested by ExA. Any further information requested by the ExA under Rule 17 of The Infrastructure Planning (Examination Procedure) Rules 2010.

3 June 2025 - Close of Examination

The ExA is under a duty to complete the Examination of the application by the end of the period of six months