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MRS AILSA MORGAN: ERECTION OF 5KW WIND TURBINE (15 METRES TO HUB HEIGHT): LAND NORTH EAST OF TORRBREAC, DERVAIG, ISLE OF MULL (REF: 11/02492/PP)

Meeting: 27/06/2012 - Planning, Protective Services and Licensing Committee (Item 7)

7 MRS AILSA MORGAN: ERECTION OF 5KW WIND TURBINE (15 METRES TO HUB HEIGHT): LAND NORTH EAST TO TORRBREAC, DERVAIG, ISLE OF MULL (REF: 11/02492/PP) pdf icon PDF 137 KB

Report by Head of Planning and Regulatory Services

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Minutes:

The Principal Planning Officer spoke to the terms of the report advising that the proposal seeks the erection of 1 No. 5 kilowatt, 15 metre (to hub) wind turbine on an area of land to the north east of Torrbreac, Dervaig, Isle of Mull.   In terms of the Argyll and Bute Local Plan (2009) the site is situated within a Rural Opportunity Area where Policy STRAT DC 4 of the approved Argyll and Bute Structure Plan (2002) gives encouragement to ‘small scale’ development on suitable sites which, in terms of siting and design, will visually integrate with landscape.  It is considered that the Applicant has demonstrated that the proposed wind turbine has been sited as  close to the property it is intended to serve as is safely and technically possible and therefore is an appropriate association between them.  It is also considered that the proposed wind turbine will have no materially adverse impact upon the character and visual amenity of the site or its wider landscape context and is consistent with Policies STRAT DC 4, STRAT DC 7, STRAT DC 8, STRAT RE 1 and STRAT SI 1 of the approved Argyll and Bute Structure Plan (2002) and Policies LP ENV 1, LP ENV 6 and LP REN 2 of the adopted Argyll and Bute Local Plan (2009).  The scale and siting of the turbine accord with advice set out in the Council’s Landscape Wind Energy Capacity Study 2012 in respect of ‘micro-small’ turbines.  Having due regard to the Development Plan and all other material considerations, including issues raised by third parties, it is recommended that planning permission be granted subject to conditions and reasons detailed in the report.

 

Decision

 

Agreed to grant planning permission subject to the following conditions and reasons:-

 

1.        No development shall commence on site until full details of the proposed finishing colours for the proposed tower, rotors and turbine are submitted and approved in writing by the Planning Authority.  The development shall thereafter be installed and maintained in perpetuity in strict accordance with such details as are approved.

 

Reason: In the interests of visual amenity.

 

2.        Upon the permanent cessation of the use of the wind turbine, or in the event of electricity not having been generated for a continuous period in excess of six months, the turbine and any ancillary equipment shall be dismantled and removed from the site and the land reinstated in accordance with details to be submitted and approved in writing by the Planning Authority.

 

Reason: In the interests of visual amenity on the basis of ensuring that the structure does not remain on the site beyond the period during which it is required for the purposes of electricity generation. 

 

3.        No development shall commence on site until full details of a landscaping scheme for the site has been submitted and approved in writing by the Planning Authority in consultation with the Biodiversity Officer.  Such a scheme shall show mixed planting in an informal fashion along the southeast boundary of the site incorporating the following species: Downy birch (d), Sessile oak (d), any of the following willow species (d), Woolly willow, Salix lanata, Downy willow, Salix lapponum; Rowan (d), Wild cherry (d) and Scots pine where soil conditions are suitable.  The landscaping scheme shall incorporate tree tubes (approximately 1.2 metres high) to protect the deciduous species.

 

All planting shall be carried out in the first planting season following the commencement of the development unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Planning Authority.

 

Reason: In order to protect the natural heritage interests of the area. 

 

4.        The development shall be implemented in accordance with the details specified on the application form dated 05/1211 and the approved drawing reference numbers:

 

Plan 1 of 6 (Location Plan at scale of 1:10000)

Plan 2 of 6 (Location Plan at scale of 1:10000 showing distances to properties)

Plan 3 of 6 (Site Plan at scale of 1:1250)

Plan 4 of 6 (Site Plan at scale of 1:1250 showing extent of built development)

Plan 5 of 6 (Turbine Elevation)

Plan 6 of 6 (Turbine Specification Data)

 

unless the prior written approval of the planning authority is obtained for an amendment to the approved details under Section 64 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 (as amended).

 

Reason: For the purpose of clarity, to ensure that the development is implemented in accordance with the approved details.

 

(Reference: Report by Head of Planning and Regulatory Services dated 1 June 2012, submitted)

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