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High Netherfauld House Farm, Tower Road - Planning Application and Environmental Impact Assessment
What is planned?
ESB (SCOTLAND) LTD
HIGH NETHERFAULD HOUSE FARM BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM
ELECTRICITY ACT 1989
TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) ACT 1997
Notice is hereby given that ESB (Scotland) Ltd, (“the Company”) with company registration number SC783342, having its registered office at 5 Whitefriars Crescent, Perth, Scotland, PH2 OPA has applied to the Scottish Ministers for consent under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 to construct and operate a Battery Energy Storage System (Bess) at High Netherfauld House Farm, Tower Road, Douglas, Lanark, South Lanarkshire (Central Grid Reference NS847352). The installed capacity of the proposed generating station would be approximately 500 MW.
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 and the supporting documents are available for public inspection in person, free of charge, during normal office hours at:
Location
Opening hours
Address
St. Bride’s Community
Centre
Tues-Thursday
09:00-14:45
and 17:30-19:30
St. Bride’s Community
Centre, Braehead,
Douglas, ML11 0PT
The application documents can also be viewed at
under application reference ECU00006284.
Copies of the application may be obtained from Aditus Architectural Services Ltd (telephone: 01228 928018/email
office@aditusarchitectural.co.uk)
at a charge of £600 hard copy and £120 on USB storage device.
Any representations on the application may be submitted via
, using the relevant Project Name and/or ECU reference number. Please note that you must be in possession of a working email address to submit a representation virtually.
If you would prefer to submit your representation by post, please send 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 representations should be dated, clearly stating the name (in block capitals) and full postal address of those making representations.
All representations should be received not later than Monday the 30th November 2026 Ministers may be able to consider written representations received after this date.
Where Scottish Ministers decide to exercise their discretion to do so, they can cause a public inquiry to be held.
Scottish Ministers will determine the application for consent in one of two ways:
• Grant consent, with or without conditions attached; or
• Refuse the proposal.
General Data Protection Regulations
The Scottish Government processes representations under the Electricity Act 1989. To support transparency in decision making, the Scottish Government publishes online at
.
A privacy notice is published on the Help page at
. 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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