Electricity

INNOGY PLC

THE ELECTRICITY ACT 1989 (REQUIREMENT OF CONSENT FOR HYDRO-ELECTRIC GENERATING STATIONS) (SCOTLAND) ORDER 1990

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) ACT 1997

THE ELECTRICITY WORKS (ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT) (SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 2000

Notice hereby given that Innogy plc (whose Registered Office is at Windmill Hill Business Park, Whitehill Way, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN5 6PB) has applied to the Scottish Ministers for consent to construct and operate a hydro electric generating station at Stronelairg, near Loch Killin, Inverness-shire. The installed capacity of the proposed generating station would be 10.7 MW. Water would be diverted from the River Killin and it’s tributaries and transported via buried pipelines to a powerhouse located at approximate grid reference NH 5365 0700.

Innogy plc has also applied for a direction under Section 57(2) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 that planning permission for the development be deemed to be granted. An Environmental Statement has been prepared in compliance with the Electricity Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000: 320).

A copy of the application, with a plan showing the land to which it relates, together with a copy of the Environmental Statement discussing the Company’s proposals in more detail and presenting an analysis of the environmental implications, is available for Inspection free of charge during normal office hours at:

Highland Council	Foyers Stores and
Planning and Development	Post Office Foyers
Department	Gorthleck
Glenurquhart Road	Inverness-shire
Inverness	IV2 6XU
IV3 5NX
Innogy Hydro	The Scottish Executive Library
North Range East Lodge	Saughton House
Stanley Mills	Broomhouse Drive
Stanley	Edinburgh
Perth and Kinross	EH11 3XD
PH1 4QE

Copies of the Environmental Statement may be obtained from the Innogy Hydro Office in Stanley, at a charge of £25, whilst stocks last. Copies of a short non-technical summary are available free of charge.

Any objections or representations to the application should be made in writing to the Lesley Thomson, The Scottish Executive, Consents and Emergency Planning Unit, 2nd Floor, Meridian Court, 5 Cadogan Street, Glasgow, G2 6AT, (lesley.thomson @scotland.gsi.gov.uk) identifying the station and specifying the grounds for objection, not later than 29th August 2003. These individual representations to the Scottish Executive will be copied to the planning authority unless the person concerned states explicitly that they do not wish their representation pass on.