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Decided SELZG2025/1120/DOC
Admin / procedural
Council
Selby
Date received
31 Oct 2025
Date validated
31 Oct 2025

Description

Discharge of condition 02 (materials) of approval Reserved matters application including access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale for the development comprising the construction of a convertor station and the discharge of conditions 6 (biodiversity net gain plan), 7 (ecological management plan), 8 (levels), 10 (hard and soft landscaping scheme), 11 (arboricultural method statement, tree survey and tree protection plan), and 13 (land restoration scheme) of approval Hybrid Planning Application comprising two parts: (Part 1) Outline planning application (all matters reserved) for the construction of a converter station at Drax, Selby; (Part 2) full planning application for the installation of high voltage direct current (HVDC) underground cables from the River Ouse to the converter station and high voltage alternating current (HVAC) underground cables from the converter station to the existing Drax Substation as well as all associated temporary works including compounds, accesses and bellmouths as part of the construction of Scotland-England Green Link 2 (SEGL2), a two gigawatt (GW) reinforcement of the electricity transmission system between Peterhead, Scotland and Drax, England. [Installation of underground HVDC cables from Mean Low Water Springs (MLWS) at Fraisthorpe, East Riding to the River Ouse and associated temporary works relating to land in an adjoining authority] Data via plota.co.uk

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Site constraints 5

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea
High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
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National infrastructure project: East Yorkshire Solar Farm
The site is inside the project boundary. Generating station, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted. Also within 2 km: Drax Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage Project (decided, the site is inside its boundary); White Rose Carbon Capture and Storage Project (decided, the site is inside its boundary); Yorkshire and Humber CCS Cross Country Pipeline (decided, the site is inside its boundary); Drax Re-power (decided, 72 m); Helios Renewable Energy Project (decided, 667 m); Humber Carbon Capture Pipeline (at pre-application, 148 m); East Coast Hydrogen Humber Pipeline (at pre-application, 1431 m).
Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.
Planning Inspectorate project page ↗
Also on the record
Inside the Barlow built-up area; Priority habitat 42 m away: Deciduous woodland; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 2, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Not green belt · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 10 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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