The submission of application, which will now be considered by the National Infrastructure team within the Planning Inspectorate, follows the UK Energy Secretary Amber Rudd’s announcement to fund offshore wind in the country.
Planned to be built in the northern half of the zone and covering an area of approximately 305km2, the project will feature up to 172 wind turbines to generate clean electricity required to power more than 850,000 homes.
Upon approval, onshore construction of the wind project is scheduled to commence in 2021 followed by offshore work starting in 2022. The facility is due to enter service in 2023.
The offshore wind farm is expected to create close to 4,800 construction jobs in the UK.
ScottishPower Renewables CEO Keith Anderson said: "Our East Anglia One project was successful in the last government auction with a price of £119/MWh, which will make it the best value offshore windfarm ever developed in the UK.
"But we want to see costs come down even further. Our entire industry wants to get to a place where subsidy is not required, and significant progress is being made to deliver this in the near future."
The company is already developing the up to 714MW East Anglia One offshore wind farm, with an investment of £2bn.
Rudd added: "Today I will announce that we will make funding available for three auctions in this Parliament with the first taking place by the end of 2016.
"This support will be strictly conditional on the delivery of the cost reductions we have seen already accelerating."
UK plans to have 10GW of installed offshore wind capacity by 2020.
