Lodge & Bird Observatory Fair Isle Shetland ZE2 9JU
Approved on 6 January 2026
Council decision: Grant subject to conditionsDelegated (officer decision)5 conditions
Proposal
To erect a 12m x 4m polycrub.
- Received
- 22 September 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 4
- Council
- Shetland Islands Council
- Ward
- Dunrossness
- ReceivedReceived22 Sep
- ValidatedValidated25 Oct
- Consult.Consultation17 Dec
- TargetTarget Date25 Dec
- DecidedDecided6 Jan
Decided in 73 days (council typically 35)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Lodge & Bird Observatory Fair Isle Shetland ZE2 9JU. Shetlands has handled 480 applications of this type. This one was decided in 106 days, 10 weeks longer than Shetlands's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 12 applications across Dunrossness. We hold 635 applications in total for the ZE2 postcode area.
99% of full applications at Shetland Islands Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 5 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- ZE2 9JU
- Application type
- Planning Permission Full
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- DUNROSSNESS
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 25 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 17 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 3 December 2025
- Consultation end
- 17 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 17 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 25 December 2025
- Permission expires
- 5 January 2029
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Ryan Cartwright
- Statutory period
- 61 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 31 October 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 14 November 2025
Additional information
- Documents
- 19
- Constraints
- 22
Site constraints
Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Shetlands
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