Cumnock - Planning Application for Wind Farm & Battery Energy Storage Development.

BROCKWELL ENERGY LIMITED

ELECTRICITY ACT 1989

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) ACT 1997

THE ELECTRICITY WORKS (ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT) (SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 2017

Notice is hereby given that Brockwell Energy Limited, (“the Company”) with company registration number SC560225, having its registered office at The Eagle Building, Third Floor, 19 Rose Street, Edinburgh, Lothian, EH2 2PR has applied to the Scottish Ministers for consent under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 to construct and operate a Dalfad Wind Farm (“the Proposed Development”) on land approximately 4 km northeast of Cumnock and 28 km east of Ayr, located at British National Grid reference NS 62781 21809, within the planning authority area of East Ayrshire Council (EAC). The installed capacity of the Proposed Development will be over 50 MW comprising up to 14 wind turbines, nine of which will have a maximum ground to blade tip height of 200 metres with the remaining five having a maximum ground to blade tip height of 149.9 metres. The Proposed Development will also include a Battery Energy Storage System up to a storage capacity of 40 MW. The operational life of the Proposed Development would be 40 years. 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 and accompanying Planning Statement, Pre-Application Consultation Report and Socio-Economic, Tourism and Recreation Statement are available for public inspection in person, free of charge, during normal office hours, from the 21st of October, at:

The EIA Report, Planning Statement, Pre-Application Consultation Report and Socio-Economic, Tourism and Recreation Statement can also be viewed on the application website at https://www.brockwellenergy.com/projects/dalfad-wind-farm/; or at www.energyconsents.scot under application reference ECU00006322.

Copies of the EIA Report along with the accompanying Planning Statement, Pre-Application Consultation Report and Socio-Economic, Tourism and Recreation Statement may be obtained from Brockwell Energy Limited (email enquiries@brockwellenergy.co.uk) at a charge of £1,500 per hard copy and £15 on a USB storage device. Copies of a short Non-Technical Summary are available free of charge.

Any representations on the application may be submitted via www.energyconsents.scot, 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 the 1st of December. Scottish Ministers may be able to consider written representations received after this date.

Any subsequent additional information which is submitted by the Company 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 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

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