Blair Hill Wind Farm Dumfries and Galloway - Environmental Impact Assessment
What is planned?
Renewable Energy
Systems (RES) Ltd
ELECTRICITY ACT 1989
TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) ACT 1997
THE ELECTRICITY WORKS
(ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT) (SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 2017
Notice is hereby given that Renewable Energy Systems (RES) Ltd, (“the Company”) with company registration number 1589961, having its registered office at Beaufort Court, Egg Farm Lane, Station Road, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, WD4 8LR has applied to the Scottish Ministers for consent under Section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 to construct and operate the Blair Hill Wind Farm (“the Proposed Development”), located approximately 2.7km north of Newton Stewart in Dumfries and Galloway (Central Grid Reference BNG 241912, 572186). The installed capacity of the proposed generating station would be approximately 92.4 MW comprising up to fourteen turbines with a ground to blade tip heights ranging between 210 – 250 metres. The proposed development is subject to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and an EIA Report has been produced.
The Company has also requested a direction under section 57(2) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 that planning permission for the development be deemed to be granted.
A copy of the application, with a plan showing the land to which it relates, together with a copy of the EIA Report discussing the Company’s proposals in more detail and presenting an analysis of the environmental implications, are available for public inspection in person, free of charge, during normal office hours at:
Location
Opening Hours
Address
Newton Stewart Library
Monday: 9am – 5pm Wednesday: 9am – 5pm
Thursday: 9am – 4pm Friday: 9am – 5pm
Saturday: 9am – 12pm
Church Street
Newton Stewart
DG8 6ER
John McNeillie Library
Monday: 1 – 5pm Tuesday: 9am – 5pm (closed 12–1pm)
Wednesday: 1 – 5pm Thursday:9am – 5pm (closed 12-1pm)
Friday: 9am – 12pm
Wigtown
County Buildings
Wigtown DG8 9JH
The EIA Report can also be viewed on the application website at https://blairhill-windfarm.co.uk/; or at
under application reference ECU00004878.
Copies of the EIA Report may be obtained from RES (email:
blairhill.windfarm@res-group.com.)
at a charge of £1,500 per hard copy and £15 on USB stick. Copies of a short Non-Technical Summary are available free of charge.
Any representations on the application may be submitted by email to the Scottish Government via
; or by post to the Scottish Government, Energy Consents Unit, 4th Floor, 5 Atlantic Quay, 150 Broomielaw, Glasgow, G2 8LU, identifying the proposal and specifying the grounds for representation.
Written or emailed representations should be dated, clearly stating the name (in block capitals) and full postal address of those making representations. Emailed representations should also include the full return email address of those making representations. Only representations sent by email to
will receive acknowledgement.
All representations should be received not later than 02/05/2025 although Ministers may consider representations received after this date.
Any subsequent additional information which is submitted by the developer will be subject to further public notice in this manner, and representations to such information will be accepted as per this notice.
Where Scottish Ministers are required to, or decide to exercise their discretion to do so, they can cause a public inquiry to be held.
Following examination of the environmental information, Scottish Ministers will determine the application for consent in one of two ways:
Consent the proposal, with or without conditions attached; or
Reject the proposal
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or write to Scottish Government, Energy Consents Unit, 4th Floor,
5 Atlantic Quay, 150 Broomielaw, Glasgow, G2 8LU.
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