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Land On Wellbank Farm Boddam Estate Sandfordhill Boddam AB42 3BD

ENQ/2025/0054EIA Screening RequestApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 3 April 2025

Council decision: EIA Opinion AdoptedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Installation of Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) with an Installed Capacity of up to 300MW with Associated Infrastructure

Received
22 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Peterhead South And Cruden
  1. Received22 Jan
  2. Validated24 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target23 May
  5. Decided3 Apr

Decided in 69 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land On Wellbank Farm Boddam Estate Sandfordhill Boddam AB42 3BD. Aberdeenshire has handled 964 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days, 2 weeks longer than Aberdeenshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Peterhead South And Cruden. We hold 853 applications in total for the AB42 postcode area.

95% of outline 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
AB42 3BD
Application type
EIA Screening Request
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Boddam & District (Not Active)

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 January 2025
Target decision date
23 May 2025
Application expires
23 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Onshore Electricity Strategy And Consents Directorate For Energy And Climate Change The Scottish Government 5 Atlantic Quay 150 Broomielaw Glasgow G2 8LU

Planning decision

Statutory period
119 days

Additional information

Documents
0
Constraints
45

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Source: Aberdeenshire

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