The Cory Decarbonisation Project Order 2025

SCHEDULE 1 AUTHORISED DEVELOPMENT

Article 4 In the London Borough of Bexley a project of national significance for which development consent is required by direction under sections 35(1) and 35ZA of the 2008 Act, and associated development under section 115(1)(b) of that Act, comprising— Work No. 1 – a carbon capture facility, including— (a) Work No. 1A – up to two carbon capture plants including— (i) up to two flue gas pre-treatment systems including direct contact coolers; (ii) up to two filtration and reclamation systems; (iii) up to two back pressure turbines and generators; (iv) up to two solvent regeneration systems; (v) up to two solvent heat exchanger systems; (vi) solvent storage; (vii) up to two continuous emissions monitoring systems; (viii) up to two regenerator columns; and (ix) retaining walls and sheet pile walls. (b) Work No. 1B – up to two combined absorber columns and stacks or a maximum of two absorber columns and two stacks, including— (i) up to two flue gas treatment plants; (c) Work No. 1C – up to two carbon dioxide processing plants, including— (i) up to two carbon dioxide compression units; (ii) up to two carbon dioxide dehydration units; (iii) up to two carbon dioxide liquefaction units and deoxidation; (iv) up to two carbon dioxide vents; and (v) chemical storage and distribution handling facilities. (d) Work No. 1D – liquid carbon dioxide (LCO₂) buffer storage area, including— (i) modular storage vessels; (ii) boil-off gas processing; and (iii) carbon dioxide vent(s). (e) Work No. 1E – supporting plant relating to the operation of the carbon capture facility, including— (i) heat transfer system; (ii) combined cooling system; (iii) flue gas supply ductwork; (iv) heat offtake infrastructure; (v) heat transfer station; (vi) heat pipework; (vii) process steam and condensate pipework; (viii) chemical storage and distribution handling facilities; (ix) water treatment plant with process water supply; (x) wastewater treatment plant; (xi) gatehouse, control room, welfare, stores and workshop; (xii) hardstanding for car parking; (xiii) stream extraction and stream processing; (xiv) electrical substations and transformers; (xv) water supply storage tank(s); (xvi) operational laydown area; (xvii) drainage infrastructure; and (xviii) retaining walls and sheet pile walls. Work No. 2 – modification to, and interconnection with, existing generation stations, including— (a) Work No. 2A – process steam and condensate connections, and heat offtake infrastructure, including— (i) heat recovery equipment; (ii) insulated heat pipework including connections; (iii) internal and external modification to existing plant, equipment and apparatus; and (iv) modification and diversion of watercourses. (b) Work No. 2B – flue gas supply ductwork, including— (i) flues for existing generation station via new ducting; (ii) dampers shut-off valve for flue gas manipulation; (iii) internal and external modification to existing plant, equipment and apparatus; and (iv) modification and diversion of watercourses. (c) Work No. 2C – electrical connections including— (i) internal and external modification to existing plant, equipment and apparatus; and (ii) modification and diversion of watercourses. Work No. 3 – utilities connections and site access works, including— (a) water supply pipework; (b) foul sewer pipework; (c) heat pipework; (d) condensate pipework; (e) access points from Norman Road to the authorised development; (f) electrical, data, optical fibre and telecommunications cables; and (g) modification and diversion of watercourses. Work No. 4 – maritime works, including— (a) Work No. 4A – modifications to or removal of the Belvedere Power Station jetty and improvements to the England Coast Path. (b) Work No. 4B – a new jetty, including— (i) loading platforms; (ii) piles and fenders; (iii) breasting dolphins; (iv) mooring dolphins; (v) access trestle; (vi) access catwalks; (vii) staircasing; (viii) power supply infrastructure; (ix) temporary moorings; (x) LCO₂ pipelines including pipelines and supporting infrastructure and equipment, pipe racks, pipe bridges and vapour return arm; (xi) topside infrastructure and equipment; and (xii) internal and external modifications to existing generating station. (c) Work No. 4C – related dredging works within the river Thames for Works No. 4A and 4B including a retaining sheet pile wall and the creation of slopes. Work No. 5 – above ground LCO₂ Pipelines to Work No. 4, including— (a) pipelines and supporting infrastructure and equipment; (b) pipe racks and pipe bridges; and (c) vapour return arm. Work No. 6 – temporary construction compounds and laydown areas including contractor facilities, including— (a) Work No. 6A – core temporary construction compound including— (i) site offices and staff welfare facilities; (ii) warehouses; (iii) workshops; (iv) laydown areas for storage including materials and plant storage; (v) vehicle parking facilities; (vi) crane mats; (vii) fabrication facilities including site compound and working spaces; and (viii) electrical connections. (b) Work No. 6B – western temporary construction compound including— (i) site offices and staff welfare facilities; (ii) warehouses; (iii) workshops; (iv) laydown areas for storage including materials and plant storage; (v) vehicle parking facilities; (vi) crane mats; (vii) fabrication facilities including site compound and working spaces; (viii) facilities to cross watercourse; and (ix) electrical connections. (c) Work No. 6C – jetty temporary construction compound including— (i) site offices and staff welfare facilities; (ii) workshops; (iii) laydown areas for storage including materials and plant storage; (iv) vehicle parking facilities; (v) crane mats; (vi) fabrication facilities including site compound and working spaces; and (vii) electrical connections. Work No. 7 – mitigation and enhancement area and improvements to the existing crossness local nature reserve including— (a) raised walkways, footpaths and permissive paths; (b) landscape works; (c) habitat creation and enhancement; (d) planting; (e) fencing and gates; (f) attenuation ponds, ditches and sluice gates; (g) car park and associated pedestrian access; (h) creation of new watercourses and crossings; (i) improvement, diversion and crossings of existing watercourses; (j) signage; (k) amenity and education facilities; and (l) stable blocks. Work No. 8 – rerouting of Thames water access road including any associated apparatus or services. Work No. 9 – protective works to land if required as a result of the authorised development. Ancillary Works For the purposes of or in connection with the construction of any of the works and other development mentioned above, ancillary or related development which does not give rise to any materially new or materially different effects to those assessed in the environmental statement, consisting of— (a) surface water drainage systems, storm water attenuation systems including storage basins, oil water separators, including runoff outfalls, SuDs features, channelling, culverting and works to existing drainage systems; (b) electrical cables, earthing cables, optical fibre cables, data cables, telecommunications cables, flue gas pipework, condensate pipework, water supply pipework, foul water pipework, drains, sewers, heat pipes, LCO₂ pipework, and other apparatus and services, and associated works including bays, ducts, protection and safety measures and equipment, and other apparatus and structures; (c) street works, including breaking up or opening a street, or any sewer, drain or tunnel under it, and tunnelling or boring under a street; (d) relocation or provision of new road traffic signs, signals, street lighting, road restraints and carriageway lane markings; (e) works to install, use, support, protect, inspect, alter, remove, replace, retain, renew, improve and maintain street furniture or apparatus (including statutory undertakers’ apparatus) and services in, under or above a street, including lights, fencing and other boundary treatments; (f) works to facilitate traffic management; (g) hardstanding and hard landscaping; (h) soft landscaping and habitat creation, including embankments and planting; (i) bunds, embankments, trenching and swales; (j) biodiversity mitigation, compensation and enhancement measures; (k) works to alter the course of, or otherwise interfere with, non-navigable rivers, streams or watercourses; (l) fencing, gates, boundary treatment and other means of enclosure; (m) temporary footpath diversions; (n) external lighting, including lighting columns; (o) closed circuit television cameras and columns and other security measures; (p) site establishment and preparation works, including— (i) site clearance (including vegetation removal, demolition of existing buildings and structures); (ii) earthworks (including soil stripping and storage and site levelling) and excavations; (iii) remediation works; (iv) the creation of temporary construction access points; (v) the alteration of the position of services and utilities; and (vi) works for the protection of buildings and land; (q) temporary construction laydown areas and contractor facilities, including— (i) materials and plant storage and laydown areas; (ii) vehicle and cycle parking facilities; (iii) pedestrian and cycle routes and facilities; (iv) offices and staff welfare facilities; (v) security fencing and gates; (vi) external lighting; (vii) roadways and haul routes; (viii) wheel wash facilities; and (ix) signage; (r) vehicle parking and cycle storage facilities; (s) accesses, roads, ramps and pedestrian and cycle routes and associated signage and information boards; (t) ground investigation works and remedial work in respect of any contamination or other adverse ground conditions, including the installation and monitoring of associated apparatus; (u) works for the benefit or protection of the authorised development; (v) tunnelling, boring, piling and drilling works and management of arisings; and (w) works within the river Thames situated within the Order limits to— (i) alter, clean, modify, dismantle, refurbish, reconstruct, remove, relocate or replace any work or structure (including river walls); (ii) carry out excavations and clearance, deepening, scouring, cleansing, dumping and pumping operations; (iii) use, appropriate, sell, deposit or otherwise dispose of any materials (including liquids but excluding any wreck within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995(a)) obtained in carrying out any such operations; (iv) remove and relocate any vessel or structure sunk, stranded, abandoned, moored or left (whether lawfully or not); (v) remove, alter, strengthen, interfere with, occupy and use the banks, bed, foreshore, waters and walls of the river; (vi) construct, place and maintain works and structures including piled fenders, protection piles and cofferdams; and (vii) provide lighting, signage and aids to navigation, and further ancillary or related development comprising such other works or operations as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of or in connection with the construction, operation and maintenance of the authorised development but only within the Order limits and insofar as they are unlikely to give rise to any materially new or materially different environmental effects to those assessed in the environmental statement.