Cable Route Foreshore Works

Introduction

Liverpool Bay CCS Limited (LBCCS), a member of the Eni SpA group (the Applicant) proposed a realignment to the cable route element of the consented Point of Ayr (PoA) Terminal and Foreshore Works that was granted planning permission in May 2024 [FUL/000246/23] by Flintshire County Council’s (FCC) planning committee. This comprised new infrastructure and modifications to existing facilities at the PoA Terminal in Flintshire to operate with carbon dioxide (CO₂).

Upgraded telecommunications and power supply from the onshore grid are required at the New Douglas Offshore CCS Platform in Liverpool Bay, which will receive and distribute CO₂ to the storage sites. This will require a combined underground electrical and fibre-optic cable connection, as part of the marine element of the works, to be installed between the PoA Terminal and the New Douglas Offshore CCS Platform.

The PoA Cable Route Foreshore Works comprises the installation of an underground section of horizontal directional drilling (HDD) conduit under Gronant Dunes originating from the HDD Entry Pit [consented under FUL/000246/23] to a buried HDD Exit Pit at the MHWS line, and burial of a combined electrical and fibre-optic cable on a new alignment across Talacre Beach and Foreshore to the Mean Low Water Spring (MLWS) line, located to the north-west of the PoA Terminal.

Following the statutory Pre-Application Consultation (PAC) for the PoA Cable Route Foreshore Works Proposed Development, which took place between 16 June and 14 July 2025, the planning application was submitted to FCC in August 2025 and approved by FCC’s planning committee in November 2025. You can view the application by visiting FCC's Public Access Website and searching the reference number: FUL/000705/25.

The PoA Terminal and Foreshore Works and the PoA Cable Route Foreshore Works form part of the Liverpool Bay CO₂ Transportation and Storage (T&S) infrastructure to serve the wider HyNet Industrial Decarbonisation Cluster. HyNet is a low carbon hydrogen and carbon capture, transport and storage project that will unlock a low carbon economy for the north west of England and north Wales and put the region at the forefront of the UK’s drive to net zero.

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