Viking Energy Wind Farm Proposals

Viking Wind Farm
Landscape Sensitivity and Capacity Study for Wind Farm Development
Application Letter to Shetland Council

Update as of 8/10/2010
Viking Energy Partnership submitted its application to the Energy Consents Unit of the Scottish Government. The Energy Consents Unit validated the application prior to the statutory adverts being placed by Viking Energy Partnership.

The Energy Consents Unit carried out consultations with the statutory consultees, including Shetland Islands Council. At its meeting on 15 July 2009 Shetland Islands Council decided that the Council’s response to the Energy Consents Unit on the application would be the subject of a full debate by the Full Council.

The Council is scheduled to debate the proposal on 14 December 2010.

Viking Energy Partnership previously submitted additional information to the Scottish Ministers in the form of a Planning Statement. This, together with responses made by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) to the Scottish Government’s Energy Consents Unit’s own consultations, has been regarded as ‘additional information’ under the process being followed. This ‘additional information’ was the subject of further public consultation.

The applicant has now submitted an Environmental Statement (ES) Addendum and an Updated Planning Statement to the Scottish Ministers. The Updated Planning Statement is supplementary to the ES Addendum. The ES Addendum and the Updated Planning Statement should be read in conjunction with the original submissions and the additional information set out above. These documents are set out below.

The ES Addendum is the subject of further statutory public consultation and the Scottish Government should receive representations on the ES Addendum by 19 November 2010.

The Updated Planning Statement, together with the ES Addendum that is the subject of this further consultation, and which now also forms part of the Viking Wind Farm proposals that are the subject of the consultation the Shetland Islands Council has received, together with the previously submitted additional information, are available here.

The Energy Consents Unit Website includes the relevant legislation, more detail on the process and a web page for submitting comments. Contact details for any queries on the process etc. are:

mailto:EnergyConsents@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

The Scottish Government
Energy Consents Unit
4th Floor
5 Atlantic Quay
150 Broomielaw
Glasgow
G2 8LU

Viking Energy Partnership has submitted copies of its proposals to the North and West Mainland leisure centres, the library in Lerwick and the Council's planning offices at Grantfield, Lerwick and the Economic Development Unit at the Solarhus, North Ness, Lerwick. Details of the Viking Wind Farm proposals that are the subject of the consultation the Shetland Islands Council has received are available here

Comments can also be made to the Council by writing to:

Viking Energy Wind Farm Proposals
Planning Service
Grantfield
Lerwick
ZE1 0NT

or by emailing using the planningcontrol@shetland.gov.uk email or this feedback form

Iain McDiarmid
Head of Planning
Shetland Islands Council
Grantfield
Lerwick
Shetland
ZE1 0NT
01595 744813

Volume 1 Non-Technical Summary

Viking Wind Farm ES Addendum Non-technical Summary

Volume 2 Written Statement

Chapter A1 Introduction
Chapter A2 Background
Chapter A3 Site Selection
Chapter A4 Development Description
Chapter A5 EIA
Chapter A6 Site Context
Chapter A7 Renewable Energy and Planning Policy Context
Chapter A8 Landscape Character
Chapter A9 Visual Impact
Chapter A10 Non-avian Ecology
Chapter A11 Ornithology
Chapter A12 Noise
Chapter A13 Cultural Heritage
Chapter A14 Soil and Water
Chapter A15 Roads and Traffic
Chapter A16 Air and Climate
Chapter A17 Socio-economic
Chapter A18 Telecoms and Aviation
Chapter A19 Recreation and Tourism
Chapter A20 Mitigation and Residual Effects Summary

Volume 3 Figures

Appendix Figure A10.9.1 Candidate HMP Lochans
Appendix Figure A10.9.2 Whimbrel Management Areas
Figure A4.1.1 Wind Farm Layout Delting
Figure A4.1.1b Deleted Features Delting and Collafirth
Figure A4.1.2 Wind Farm Layout Nesting and Kergord
Figure A4.1.2b Deleted Features Nesting and Kergord
Figure A9.1 Zone of Theoretical Visibility
Figure A9.1a - A1 ZTV North
Figure A9.1b - A1 ZTV South
Figure A9.2.1 Visual Receptors
Figure A9.2.5 Visual Receptors
Figure A9.2.7 Visual Receptors
Figure A9.2.12 Visual Receptors - routes
Figure A9.3.6a Viewpoint 6
Figure A9.3.6b Viewpoint 6
Figure A9.3.6c Viewpoint 6
Figure A9.3.18a Viewpoint 18
Figure A9.3.18b Viewpoint 18
Figure A9.3.23a Viewpoint 23
Figure A9.3.23b Viewpoint 23
Figure A11.6 Red-throated Diver Flight Activity
Figure A11.7 Greylag Goose Breeding Territories
Figure A11.8 Golden Plover Breeding Territories
Figure A11.9 Lapwing Breeding Territories
Figure A11.10 Dunlin Breeding Territories
Figure A11.11 Whimbrel Breeding Territories and Hot Spots
Figure A11.12 Curlew Breeding Territories
Figure A11.13 Arctic Skua Breeding Territories and Hot Spots
Figure A11.14 Great Skua Breeding Territories
Figure A11.15 Arctic Tern Breeding Territories
Figure A12.1 Baseline Noise Monitoring Locations
Figure A13.1 Cultural Heritage Sites near Collafirth
Figure A13.2 Cultural Heritage Sites near Nesting
Figure A13.3 Cultural Heritage Sites near Kergord
Figure A13.4 Cultural Heritage Sites near Delting
Figure A13.20.1 Archaeological Potential - Delting
Figure A13.20.2 Archaeological Potential - Kergord South
Figure A13.20.3 Archaeological Potential - Kergord North
Figure A13.20.4 Archaeological Potential - Nesting South
Figure A13.20.5 Archaeological Potential - Nesting North
Figure A13.21 Archaeology and Turbines - Delting North
Figure A13.22 Archaeology and Turbines - Delting South
Figure A13.23 Archaeology and Turbines - Nesting North
Figure A13.24 Archaeology and Turbines - Kergord Mid
Figure A13.25 Archaeology and Turbines - Kergord South
Figure A13.26 Archaeology and Turbines - Nesting South
Figure A13.27.1 Cultural Heritage Wirelines
Figure A13.27.2 Cultural Heritage Wirelines
Figure A13.27.3 Cultural Heritage Wirelines
Figure A13.27.4 Cultural Heritage Wirelines
Figure A13.27.5 Cultural Heritage Wirelines
Figure A13.27.6 Cultural Heritage Wirelines
Figure A13.27.7 Cultural Heritage Wirelines
Figure A13.27.8 Cultural Heritage Wirelines
Figure A13.27.9 Cultural Heritage Wirelines
Figure A13.28 Hegels Wheel
Figure A14.16a Borrow Pit DBP01
Figure A14.16b Borrow Pit DBP02
Figure A14.16c Borrow Pit DBP03
Figure A14.16d Borrow Pit KBP01
Figure A14.16e Borrow Pit KBP02
Figure A14.16f Borrow Pit KBP03
Figure A14.16g Borrow Pit KBP04
Figure A14.16h Borrow Pit KBP05
Figure A14.16i Borrow Pit NBP01
Figure A14.16j Borrow Pit NBP03
Figure A14.16k Borrow Pit NBP04
Figure A14.16l Borrow Pit NBP05
Figure A14.16m Borrow Pit NBP06
Map A4 VP1
Map A5 VP2
Map A6 VP3
Map A7 VP4
Map A8 VP5
Map A9 VP6
Map A10 VP7
Map A11 VP8
Map A12 VP9
Map A13 VP10
Map A14 VP11
Map A15 VP12
Map A16 VP13
Map A17 VP15
Map A18 VP16
Map A19 VP17
Map A20 VP18
Map A21 VP19
Map A22 VP20
Map A23 VP21
Map A24 VP23
Map A25 VP24
Map A26 VP26
Map A27 VP27
Map A28 VP29
Map A29 VP30
Map A30 VP31
Map A31 Cumulative Viewshed North
Map A32 Cumulative Viewshed South
Map A33 VP M1
Map A34 VP M2
Map A35 VP M3
Map A36 VP M4
Map A37 VP M5
Map A38 VP M6
Map A39 VP M7
Map A40 VP M8
Map A41 VP M9
Map A42 VP M10
Map A43 VP M11
Map A44 VP M12
Map A45 Cumulative Viewshed M North
Map A46 Cumulative Viewshed M South
Map A91 Distribution of Breeding Whimbrel

Volume 4 Appendices

Viking Energy Wind Farm Proposals

Volume 1 Non-Technical Summary

Volume 2 Written Statement

Volume 3 Figures

Volume 4 Appendices

Planning Services