East Ayrshire Council

PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT) SCOTLAND REGULATIONS 2011 NOTICE UNDER REGULATION 17

The proposed development at High Cumnock Wind Farm, Watston and Calton Farms, Dumfries Road, Cumnock is subject to assessment under the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2011. Notice is hereby given that an environmental statement has been submitted to East Ayrshire Council by Banks Renewables (High Cumnock Wind Farm) Limited relating to the planning application in respect of the erection of 8 wind turbines with a maximum tip height of 132 metres and associated infrastructure notified to you under the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2008 on 12 & 18 March 2013.

Possible decisions relating to the application are:

(i)  approval of the application without conditions;

(ii)  approval of the application with conditions;

(iii)  refusal of the application.

A copy of the environmental statement, the associated application and other documents submitted with the application may be inspected at all reasonable hours at the place where the register of planning applications is kept by the planning authority for the area at The Johnnie Walker Bond, 15 Strand Street, Kilmarnock, KA1 1HU and also at Cumnock Area Centre, 1 Greenholm Road, Cumnock and at http://eplanning.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/online/ during the period of 28 days beginning with the date of this notice.

Copies of the environmental statement may be purchased from Banks Renewables, Brandon Gate, 2nd Floor, Block C, Leechlee Road, Hamilton, ML3 6AU at a cost of £250 for paper copies and £5 for electronic copies. Copies of the non technical summary are free of charge from the above address.

Any person who wishes to make representations to East Ayrshire Council about the environmental statement should make them in writing within that period to the Council at The Johnnie Walker Bond, 15 Strand Street, Kilmarnock, KA1 1HU or at http://eplanning.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/online/ quoting reference 13/0099/PP.

Alan Neish, Head of Planning & Economic Development, The Johnnie Walker Bond,15 Strand Street, Kilmarnock, KA1 1HU Tel: (01563) 576790 Fax: (01563) 554592

East Ayrshire Council