Rooley Moor - Planning Applications For Development Management Procedure

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT PROCEDURE) (ENGLAND) ORDER 2015 - NOTICE UNDER ARTICLE 13(1)(b)

Notice is hereby given that a cross-boundary application for full planning permission relating to the construction and operation of a new onshore wind farm (to be known as ‘Scout Moor II’), alongside a comprehensive moorland restoration scheme (the ‘Proposed Development’), on land at Rooley Moor (‘the Site’) is made to Rossendale Borough Council (‘RBC’) and Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council (‘RMBC’) by:

Cubico UK Development (Wind 1) Limited for the following description of development:
“Construction and operation of 17 wind turbines with a maximum height to the tip of the blade of 180 metres (above ordnance datum), together with associated ancillary infrastructure comprising crane pads and hardstandings; new access tracks; improvement and widening works to Scout Road; onsite substation; underground electrical infrastructure and cabling; fencing and boundary treatments; external lighting; drainage infrastructure; habitat and moorland restoration works; public right of way works; landscaping; temporary construction compound and staging area; underground electrical grid connection to the Rossendale Bulk Supply Point; and associated engineering works; alongside the retention of and improvements to existing access tracks associated with the existing Scout Moor Wind Farm”.

Any owner of the land (namely a freeholder or a person entitled to an unexpired term of at least seven years under a lease) who wishes to make representations to RBC or RMBC about the application should do so within 21 days of the date of publication of this notice to: Rossendale Borough Council Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council

Business Centre Number One Riverside
Future Park Smith Street Bacup Rochdale OL13 0BB OL16 1XU
Signed: Thomas Lord of Turley
On behalf of: Cubico UK Development (Wind 1) Limited