Most wind farms now being proposed are S36 schemes though a number of smaller ones remain undecided mostly in the Dumfries & Galloway Council area. It is fairly easy to discover the state of play on S36 schemes as the Energy Consents Unit website does allow folk to discover which schemes are at the application stage and which are still in Scoping.
I have in the past supplied a spreadsheet showing schemes currently at the Application Stage. Some of those are the subject of a PLI, others await a decision by the relevant council on whether they will lodge an
objection and others will be approved by SG if no objection has been lodged. The number of schemes subject of an application is currently around 35.
A search of schemes at the Scoping Stage lists more than 140 but those for wind farms only total 120. Some of these are no longer live having either been withdrawn or proceeded to the application stage but you will see from the attached spreadsheet that more than 50 are currently live. While a few of these are old enough for us to assume they won’t proceed they are the exception. As well as the spreadsheet I have also created another document grouping the proposals into council areas and the most affected areas will come as no surprise. Having created these documents I shall try to keep them up to date.
It is usual for a Scoping Request from a developer to result in a Scoping Opinion from ECU appearing within two to three months. Whether the schemes proceed to a full application, when that happens and what
changes are made are all matters for the developer.
It is depressing to see how much more is in the pipeline along with the S36 applications currently under consideration.
Stephen Lucking
7 February 2022
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