Windfarms Implementing SPP6 Nick Evans 6 th December 2007.
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WindfarmsImplementing SPP6
Nick Evans 6th December 2007
WindfarmsImplementing SPP6
• Appointing an expert consultant
• Advice on preparing supplementary planning guidance (SPG)
SPP6 - Overall Aims “…to enable Scotland to realise its considerable
renewable energy potential”
“Support renewable energy…and.. protect and enhance Scotland’s natural and historic environment”
“Wind farms should be accommodated where the technology can operate efficiently and the environmental and cumulative impacts can be addressed satisfactorily.”
SPP6 published in March 2007
Spatial frameworks for wind farms
Jim Mackinnon’s letter to Heads of Planning
Prepare SPG
Guidance plus support by a consultant
Background
Appointing an expert consultant
Why appoint a consultant?
Criteria for the appointment
Expectations
Timing
Advice on preparing SPG analysis of existing DPs and SPG
Strengths Commitment to rewewables International and national designations Local environmental issues/biodiversity Small scale/community schemes Stakeholder and public involvement
Advice on preparing SPG analysis of existing DPs and SPG
Issues for advice Broad areas of search Green belts Different designations different policies Grid capacity Noise
Windfarms over 20 MW
Windfarms below 20 MW
Annex A still relevant, but Consider scale of project with scale and
character of landscape More flexible approach to designated areas Particularly for community schemes
Scope of the SPG
Aims of the SPG
1 - Broad areas of search
2 - Areas of significant protection
3 - Criteria to be followed elsewhere
The SPG process
1 - Areas of significant protection
2 - Criteria to be followed elsewhere
3 – Outwith the above Broad areas of search
Natural heritage designations International designations National designations
Green belts
Areas where the limit of cumulative impacts have been reached
Areas of significant protection
Historic environment Regional and local natural heritage areas Tourism and recreational interests Communities Aviation and defence interests Broadcasting installations
Criteria for Elsewhere
Areas with no significant constraints Locally sensitive areas Project viability Grid capacity
Broad areas of search
Outwith protected and potentially constrained areas
Planning challenge Widespread experience of DPs/SPG SPP6 means a review of DPs/SPG Appointing an expert consultant Advice on preparing supplementary planning guidance
(SPG)
Conclusions
WindfarmsImplementing SPP6
Nick Evans 6th December 2007