Digital Offshore ES

The Proposed Project has submitted a comprehensive offshore consent application to the relevant regulatory bodies.

All documents submitted for the application are presented below.

In the final live version of the ES each document produced as part of the ES will be available to navigate online, and will have an options to download the PDF version of the chapter as submitted.

Note the document and chapter list below are provided as an example of the page layout, chapter and appendices numbers and titles will vary depending on the project.

Marine Licence Application Form

PAC Report

PAC Appendices

Offshore Planning statement

Volume 1: Environmental Statement Report

Below is provided the list of the chapters found in Volume 1 of the Offshore Environmental Statement report.

Non Technical summary

Table of Content

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 - Planning Policy and Legal Context

Chapter 3 - Approach to EIA

Chapter 4 - Site Selection and Design Evolution

Chapter 5 - Project Description

Chapter 6 - Stakeholder Engagement

Chapter 7 - EIA methodology

Chapter 8 - Marine Physical and Coastal Processes

Chapter 9 - Water and sediment quality

Chapter 10 - Benthic Subtidal and Intertidal Ecology

Chapter 11 - Fish and Shellfish Ecology

Chapter 12 - Marine Mammal and Megafauna

Chapter 13 - Offshore and Intertidal Ornithology

Chapter 14 - Commercial Fisheries

Chapter 15 - Shipping and Navigation

Chapter 16 - Marine Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

Chapter 17 - Military and Aviation

Chapter 18 - Seascape Landscape and Visual Assessment

Chapter 19 - Socio Economics

Chapter 20 - Other Sea Users

Chapter 21 - Onshore EIA summary

Chapter 22 - Summary of Mitigation and Monitoring

Chapter 23 - Conclusions and next steps

Volume 2: Supporting documents

Below is provided the non-exahustive list of the technical appendixes found in Volume 2 of the Offshore Environmental Statement grouped by the chapter and topic they refer to.

Topic Appendices
  1. Stakeholder engagement and consultation
6.1 -Audit Document for Post-Scoping Discussions
  1. Environmental Impact Assessment Methodology

7.1 - Scoping Report

7.2 - Scoping Opinion

7.3 - Enhancement, Mitigation and Monitoring Commitments

7.4 - Cumulative Effects Screening

7.5 - Cumulative Effects Assessment Figures

7.6 - Transboundary Impacts Screening

  1. Marine and Coastla Physical Processes
8.1 - Physical Processes Technical Report
  1. Benthic Subtidal and Intertidal Ecology

10.1 - Benthic Subtidal and Intertidal Ecology Technical Report

10.2 - Benthic Ecology, Fish and Shellfish Ecology, and Physical Processes Road Map

  1. Fish and Shellfish Ecology
11.1 - Fish and Shellfish Ecology Technical Report
  1. Marine Mammals

12.1 - Subsea Noise Technical Report

12.2 - Marine Mammal Technical Report

12.3 - Marine Mammal Road Map

12.4 - Interim Population Consequences of Disturbance Modelling Report

12.5 - Conversion Factor Supporting Information

  1. Ornithology

13.1 - Ornithology and Intertidal Ornithology Technical Report

13.2 - Ornithology Intertidal Survey report

13.3 - Collision Risk Modelling

13.4 - Displacement

13.5 - Apportioning

13.6 - Population Viability Analysis

13.7 - Boat based survey

13.8 - Ornithology Road Map

  1. Commercial Fisheries
14.1 - Commercial Fisheries Technical Report

Volume 3: Outline Management Plans

Below are found the three management plans published as part of Volume 3 of the Offshore Environmental Statement.

  1. Environmental Management Plan

  2. Marine Mammal Mitigation Protocol

  3. Outline Fisheries Management and Mitigation Strategy

  4. Aids to Navigation Safety and Vessel Management Plan

  5. Aids to Navigation Management Plan

  6. Lighting and Marking plan

Habitat Regulation Appraisal and Derogation Case

Below is found the list of the studies and reports in support of the Habitat Regulation Appraisal and Derogation Case.

Report to Inform Appropriate Assessment (RIAA)


Executive summary and Conclusions

Introduction and Background (Part One)

Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) Appropriate Assessments (Part Two)

Special Protection Areas (SPAs) Appropriate Assessments (Part Three)

RIAA Appendices


Appendix 1A

Appendix 2A

Derogation case


Derogation case

Implementation and Monitoring

Fisheries Compensation

Colony Compensation

Statement of Need