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Argyll and Bute landscape wind energy capacity study - update 2017
The council, together with Scottish Natural Heritage have commissioned Consultant Landscape Architects to update the Argyll and Bute Landscape Wind Energy Capacity Study 2012. The updated study was approved by the Councils Planning Protective Services and Licensing Committee on 20th September 2017.
There are two separate parts to the report. The Main Study Report provides details of the background and methodology of the study, a description of the baseline landscape character, and summary sensitivity assessments for each landscape character type. The Appendix Report provides detailed sensitivity assessments for each of the landscape character types.
Landscape Wind Energy Capacity Study - Main Report Volume 1 (2017)
Landscape Wind Energy Capacity Study - Main Report Volume 1 Appendix F (2017)
Landscape Wind Energy Capacity Study - Main Report Volume 2 (2017)
Argyll and Bute landscape wind energy capacity study
The council, together with Scottish Natural Heritage have commissioned Consultant Landscape Architects to prepare an Argyll and Bute Wind Energy Capacity Study. The study provides technical information which will be used to help develop the windfarm / wind turbine policies and associated spatial framework in the proposed Local Development Plan (LDP). The study has used the landscape character types identified in Landscape assessment of Argyll and the Firth of Clyde (1996) undertaken by Environmental Resources Management for SNH, as the basis for assessment. However, the study was reviewed and some revisions made to landscape character types and their classification for the purposes of this study. Separate assessments have also been carried out for the National Scenic Areas. In addition, the study provides new guidance on the siting of smaller scale (up to 50 metre) turbines throughout Argyll and Bute.
There are two separate parts to the report. The Main study report provides details of the background and methodology of the study, a description of the baseline landscape character, and summary sensitivity assessments for each landscape character type. Separate sensitivity assessments have been carried out for each of the National Scenic Areas within Argyll and Bute, and there is also a chapter which provides guidance on siting for smaller turbines. The last part of the Main study report provides a summary of the study's findings and conclusions. In addition to the main study there is also an Appendix report; this provides Detailed Sensitivity Assessments for each of the landscape character types and subtypes identified in the study, with separate assessments for five National Scenic Areas in Argyll and Bute.
Owing to the large file sizes both the Main report and the Appendix report are broken down into a series of separate PDF files.
Landscape wind energy capacity study main report part 1
Part 1 - Summary; Contents; Introduction; Study methodology; Operational, consented and proposed wind farm development; Baseline landscape character; Sensitivity assessment of landscape character types.
Landscape wind energy capacity study main report part 2
Part 2 - Character type 1 - steep ridgeland and mountains; Character type 2 - high tops; Character type 2a - Mull high tops; Character types 3 and 4 - Hidden and mountain glens; Character type 5 - open ridgeland; character type 5a - Bute open ridgeland
Landscape wind energy capacity study main report part 3
Part 3 - Character type 6 - upland forest-moor mosaic; Character type 6a - Loch Fyne upland forest-moor mosaic; Character type 6b - Knapdale forest-moor mosaic; Character type 6c - Mull of Kintyre upland forest-moor mosaic; Character type 7 - craggy upland; Character type 7a - craggy upland with settled glens; Character type 7b - craggy coasts and islands; Character type 7c - North Loch Awe craggy upland; Character type 7d - Lorn craggy upland
Landscape wind energy capacity study main report part 4
Part 4 - Character type 7e - Mull craggy upland; Character type 8 - moorland plateau; Character type 8a - moorland plateau with farmland; Character type 9 - rocky moorland; Character type 10 - upland parallel ridges; Character type 11 - boulder moors; Character type 12 - high stepped basalt
Landscape wind energy capacity study main report part 5
Part 5 - Character type 13 - rolling farmland and estates; Character type 13a - Bute rolling farmland and estates; Character type 14 - bay farmland; Character type 15 - lowland bog and moor; Character type 15a - less extensive lowland bog and moor; Character type 16 - marginal farmland mosaic; Character type 17 - Mull basalt lowlands; Character type 17a - Bute basalt lowlands
Landscape wind energy capacity study main report part 6
Part 6 - Character type 18 - lowland ridges and moss; Character type 19 - Kintyre coastal plain; Character type 19a - Bute coastal plain; Character type 20 - rocky mosaic; Character type 21 - low coastal hills; Character type 22 - coastal parallel ridges; Character type 23 - flat moss and mudflats; Character type 25 - sand dunes and machair
Landscape wind energy capacity study main report part 7
Part 7 - Sensitivity assessment of National Scenic Areas (NSAs) - Knapdale NSA, Lynn of Lorn NSA, Kyles of Bute NSA, Loch na Keal, Mull NSA, Jura NSA
Landscape wind energy capacity study main report part 8
Part 8 - Guidance on the micro-siting of smaller turbines
Landscape wind energy capacity study main report part 9
Summary of findings and recommendations; References; Glossary of tems; Landscape sensitivity criteria; National Scenic Area sensitivity assessment methodology; Summary of sensitivity for character type assessment
Appendix report part 1
Part 1 - Introduction to the sensitivity assessment; Detailed sensitivity assessment of landscape character types 1, 2, 2a, 3 and 4, 5 5a
Appendix report part 2
Part 2 - Detailed sensitivity assessment of landscape character types 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 7, 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d
Appendix report part 3
Part 3 - Detailed sensitivity assessment of landscape character types 7e, 8, 8a, 9, 10, 11, 12
Appendix report part 4
Part 4 - Detailed sensitivity assessment of landscape character types 13, 13a, 14, 15, 15a, 16, 17, 17a
Appendix report part 5
Part 5 - Detailed sensitivity assessment of landscape character types 18, 19, 19a, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25
Appendix report part 6
Part 6 - Detailed sensitivity assessments of National Scenic Areas