Rampion, listed in the REPD as Rampion Offshore Wind Farm (Hastings Zone), is 116 turbines of 3.5 MW each, 140 m tall, 400 MW in total, off Brighton and Hove. The applicant on record is E.ON UK. The roughly 20 km to the shore should be read as a straight line from a single reference point in the register to the postcode BN2 5ZD, not to the edge of the turbine field. The postcode districts BN2, BN10 and BN3 lie 21–22 km away, and there are 12 of them within 26 km.
How Rampion was approved
The application was submitted on 25 March 2013. After examination by the Planning Inspectorate (EN010032), the Energy Secretary granted the development consent order (DCO) for this nationally significant project on 16 July 2014, after 68 weeks; the median for offshore wind is 84.4. Construction began on 25 January 2016, and on 26 November 2017 the wind farm became operational: four and a half years from application.
Rampion 2
The follow-on project, Rampion 2 at 1,200 MW, is recorded separately at the same point in the register and, going by the extract for July 2026, is approved, not built. The record for the first Rampion has not been updated since 6 December 2019, so the register may well be lagging behind.