Scottish Borders Council Headquarters, Newton Street - Public Inspection
What is planned?
Fred Olsen Renewables 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 Fred Olsen Renewables Ltd, (“the Company”) with company registration number 13633932, having its registered office at 2nd Floor, 36 Broadway, London, England, SW1H 0BH has applied to the Scottish Ministers for consent under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 to construct and operate Crystal Rig I Wind Farm Repower (the “Proposed Development”), on land approximately 10 km south of Dunbar and 40 km east of Edinburgh within the Lammermuir Hills (Central Grid Reference NT 67634 67926), within the planning authority area of Scottish Borders Council. The installed capacity of the proposed generating station will be over 50 MW comprising up to 10 wind turbines with a maximum ground to blade tip height of 230 metres for up to six turbines and 200 m for the remaining four wind turbines. 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 Proposed 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, is available for public inspection, free of charge on the application website
https://crystalrigwindfarm.com/crystal-rig-repower/
or on the Scottish Government Energy Consents website
https://www.energyconsents.scot/
under application reference ECU00005089.
The EIA Report is also available for public inspection in person, free of charge at:
Location
Opening Hours
Address
Scottish Borders Council Headquarters
9 am – 5 pm
(Monday to Thursday & 9am 3:45pm Friday)
Newton Street, Boswells, Melrose,
TD6 0SA
Copies of the EIA Report may be obtained from Fred Olsen Renewables Ltd via email at
at a charge of £1,800 per hard copy of Volumes 1-4, and £15 per digital copy on USB drive. 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 3rd November 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 application.
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This explains how the Scottish Government processes your personal information. If you have any concerns about the processing of your personal information by the Scottish Government, please email
or write to Scottish Government, Energy Consents Unit, 4th Floor, 5 Atlantic Quay, 150 Broomielaw, Glasgow, G2 8LU.
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