Note: where a development is sited across administrative area boundaries it is indicated by *.

If the installed capacity of the development is over 50MW any planning application has to be submitted to the Energy Consents Unit, Scottish Executive.

The information published on this website is as accurate as the current planning process for the development of windfarms allows.

The information does not consitute legal or professional advice.

The website is subject to continous development as and when the information becomes available.

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Current Activity in Highland
               
Area Operational Approved Application Scoping Proposal Anemometer  
               
Caithness 2 1 7 12 0 2
               
Sutherland 0 1* 3 6 1

4
               
Ross &Cromarty 2 1* 1 3 1 0  
               
Inverness 0 1 2* 1 0 4  
               
Skye & Lochalsh 0 1 1 0 3 2  
               
Lochaber 0 0 1* 0 0 3  
               
Nairn 0 0 0 1 0 1  
               
Badenoch & Strathspey 0 0 0 0 0 2  

 

 

Operational Planning consent has been given by the local authority / Scottish Executive. The wind farm has been constructed and is delivering energy to the National Grid.
   
Approved Planning consent has been given by the local authority / Scottish Executive. The wind farm may be under construction but has not delivered energy to the National Grid.
   
Application The developer has submitted a competent planning application to the local authority/ Scottish Executive.
   
Scoping The developer is consulting with the local authority / Scottish Executive about the detailed information to be contained in the Environmental Impact Assessment, which must accompany the planning application.
   
Proposal The developer has presented plans for a wind farm to local communities or the development has been referred to in the press.
   
Anemometer An anemometer is an instrument mounted on a mast to continuously measure wind speed and direction. Also it can be referred to as a meteorological or wind measuring mast.
   
  Note: Developers are correct when they say a planning application for an anemometer does not necessarily lead to a planning application for a wind farm.
Statistically, however, there is a high probablity that a planning application for a wind farm will follow a planning application for an anemometer.