Planning application · Onshore wind · Orkney Islands

Burgar Hill

Operational5 MWSubmitted 13 February 1997Granted 7 July 1997

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The application

Planning authority: Orkney Islands
Nation: Scotland
Technology: Onshore wind
Capacity: 5 MW
Status: Operational
Operator or applicant: Orkney Sustainable Energy
Location: Evie, Orkney
Turbines: 2
First operating: 2006

Timeline

13 February 1997 Planning application submitted
7 July 1997 Planning permission granted
1 December 2006 Operational

Preview of the planning evidence pack for this site

The pack for this site lists 43 comparable onshore wind incidents in the United Kingdom, nearest first. The nearest is EIR-1291, Fatality at Viking wind farm site in Shetland Islands, 169 km from this site.

Reference	Year	Incident	From the site	Severity
EIR-1291	2022	Fatality at Viking wind farm site in Shetland Islands	169 km	Major
EIR-1386	2022	Wind turbine fire near St Cyrus in Aberdeenshire	264 km	Minor
EIR-0767	2024	Nordex turbine fire prompts investigation at Scottish wind farm	265 km	Significant
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The first 3 rows as the pack shows them. The other 40 are in the pack, each with its distance, sources and the fire service guidance it bears on.

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Summary for this site

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What the planning evidence pack adds for this application

The pack is made for Burgar Hill from the register and the government planning database: every comparable incident, nearest first, with its sources; the schemes refused, withdrawn or taken to appeal within 40 km, your council first; and the fire service guidance each incident bears on. One fixed, dated file, as a PDF, a web page and a Word document.

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UK grid-scale incidents, with NFCC notes: ••••
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