ELECTRICITY ACT 1989

Community Windpower Limited

ELECTRICITY ACT 1989

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) ACT 1997

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

The Electricity Works (Miscellaneous Temporary Modifications) (Coronavirus) (Scotland)

Regulations 2020

Notice is hereby given that Community Windpower Limited (company registration number 04588923), with its Registered Office at Godscroft Lane, Frodsham, Cheshire WA6 6XU has applied to the Scottish Ministers for consent under Section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 to construct and operate a wind farm known as Sanquhar II Community Wind Farm at Sanquhar, within Dumfries and Galloway Council local authority area (Central Grid Reference 268554, 603493). The application also requests that a direction be made by the Scottish Ministers under section 57 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997. The installed capacity of the proposed generating station would be over 50MW comprising up to 44 wind turbines with a maximum ground to blade tip height of between 149 and 200 metres and has been subject to Environmental Impact Assessment. An EIA Report and Additional Information has been produced to accompany the application for consent.

Community Windpower Limited has now submitted Additional Information to Scottish Ministers, which includes information relating to the removal of six wind turbines and associated infrastructure, removal of one borrow pit, the removal of one construction compound, addition of a satellite substation and increasing the planning permission to 40 years from when the turbines are fully installed and commissioned. As well as Landscape and Visual Updates, the Additional Information contains Ornithology, Ecology, traffic and transport information updates, Aviation and night-time lighting mitigation, matters relating to Peat Management and Peat Slide Risk, clarification of Private Water Supply information and an update to the community benefit commitment.

A copy of the additional information and the application ('the information') is available for public inspection, free of charge on the application website

or on the Scottish Government Energy Consents website at

under application reference ECU00001801.

Copies of the Additional Information may be obtained from Community Windpower (telephone: 01928 734544 or email:

) at a charge of £400 per hard copy and free of charge on a DVD/CD/ USB.

Any representations to the application may be submitted via the Energy Consents Unit website at

; by emailtotheScottishGovernment.EnergyConsentsUnit mailbox at

; or by post 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. Please note that there may be a delay in the Energy Consents Unit receiving representations by post.

Written or emailed representations should be dated, clearly stating the name (in block capitals), full return email and postal address of those making representations. Only representations sent by email to

will receive acknowledgement.

All representations should be received not later than 7th September 2020 although Scottish Ministers may consider representations received after this date.

Any subsequent additional information which is submitted by the developer will be subject to further public notice in this manner, and representations to such information will be accepted as per this notice.

As a result of a statutory objection from the relevant planning authority, or where Scottish Ministers decide to exercise their discretion to do so, Scottish Ministers can also cause a Public Local Inquiry (PLI) to be held.

Following examination of the environmental information, Scottish Ministers will determine the application for consent in two ways:

? Consent the proposal, with or without conditions attached; or



? Reject the proposal



All previous representations received in relation to application documents submitted regarding this development remain valid.

General Data Protection Regulations

The Scottish Government Energy Consents Unit processes consent applications and consultation representations under the Electricity Act 1989. During the process, 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 Energy Consents Unit processes your personal information. If you have any concerns about how your personal data is handled, please email

.