The Hearing part of the Local Enquiry took place over Zoom as a virtual hearing, split into two parts over three days. The Reporter started by saying that all submissions, including those not forming part of the hearing, would be taken into account before making her decision, and that Scottish Ministers would have the final […]
Planning matters
Original resolution of the CC to the Red John planning application.
Dores and Essich Community CouncilResolution re Red John PSH Project18th March, 2019 Dores and Essich Community Council (DECC) believes that, in order to mitigate theeffects of climate change and global warming, increased reliance needs to be placed ongenerating electricity from renewable sources, as is expressed in Scottish Governmentpolicy.It also believes that pumped storage hydro schemes […]
The Community Council’s final representation to the Red John Public Enquiry
Dear Ms MansonPS-270-1: Red John Pumped Storage HydroThank you for your email of 29th June 2020 requesting further comments from the Community Council in relation to Flood Risk and Seismic Activity and Traffic and Transport. After consideration of the developer’s further responses, we wish to reiterate our original submission of 27th February 2019 along with the following comments.Flood […]
Planning involvement by the community
Any member of the public is entitled to comment on any planning application, whether to support, object or make neutral comments. Whilst normally it might be expected that you would have some sort of interest in the application (perhaps because it is near your home or may affect premises or facilities you use) this is […]
Red John Public Local Enquiry to commence.
From fiona.manson@scot.gov.uk In this case, a virtual hearing is to take place. The sessions will begin at 10 am on Monday 24 August 2020. The public inquiry is estimated to run for 3 days, with hearing sessions 1 (i and ii) taking place on Monday 24 August 2020 and hearing session 2 taking place from […]
Fish Farm’s planning status queried
The CC has responded to the latest Planning Application by Mowi to relocate the position of the fish cages nearer to the village. Our representation is as follows. “DECC would like to point out that the current Planning Permission (09/00685/FULIN) for the operation of this fish farm is restricted by Condition 7 to the original applicant, […]