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Land At Middleton Farm Potterton AB23 8US

APP/2025/0313Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 9 July 2025

Planning committee

Proposal

Installation of Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) with an Installed Capacity of 49.9MW and Associated Infrastructure

Received
4 March 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
53
Ward
Mid-Formartine
  1. Received4 Mar
  2. Validated24 Mar
  3. Consult.5 May
  4. Target23 Jul
  5. Decided9 Jul

Decided in 107 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Land At Middleton Farm Potterton AB23 8US. Aberdeenshire has handled 5,477 applications of this type. This one was decided in 127 days, 10 weeks longer than Aberdeenshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 65 applications across Mid-Formartine. We hold 609 applications in total for the AB23 postcode area.

96% of full applications at Aberdeenshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
AB23 8US
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Belhelvie

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 March 2025
Consultation expiry
5 May 2025
Consultation end
5 May 2025
Last date for comments
24 April 2025
Target decision date
23 July 2025
Committee meeting
1 July 2025
Application expires
23 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
4 West Silvermills Lane Edinburgh EH3 5BD

Planning decision

Statutory period
121 days

Publicity

Last advertised
4 April 2025
Advertisement expiry
24 April 2025

Additional information

Documents
91
Constraints
37

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Source: Aberdeenshire

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