Planning application · Offshore wind · Marine Scotland

Culzean Floating Wind Pilot

Awaiting Construction3 MWSubmitted 22 February 2024Granted 22 August 2024

In the evidence packnearest refused scheme •• kmShown in the pack

The application

Planning authority: Marine Scotland
County or area: Offshore
Nation: Scotland
Technology: Offshore wind
Capacity: 3 MW
Status: Awaiting Construction (Planning Permission Granted)
Operator or applicant: TotalEnergies
Location: INTOG 12, North East Coast off Scotland
Turbines: 1, 134 m to tip

Timeline

22 February 2024 Planning application submitted
22 August 2024 Planning permission granted

Preview of the planning evidence pack for this site

The pack for this site lists 11 comparable offshore wind incidents in the United Kingdom, nearest first. The nearest is EIR-0758, Service vessel collision damages turbine at Orsted's Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm, 327 km from this site.

Reference	Year	Incident	From the site	Severity
EIR-0758	2024	Service vessel collision damages turbine at Orsted's Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm	327 km	Significant
EIR-1778	2018	Engineer loses arm during repair at North Sea Siemens Gamesa turbine	327 km	Major
EIR-0447	2023	Fire destroyed turbine at Scroby Sands Offshore Wind Farm in 2023	510 km	Major
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The first 3 rows as the pack shows them. The other 8 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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In the full pack

What the planning evidence pack adds for this application

The pack is made for Culzean Floating Wind Pilot 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and the government planning database: every comparable incident, nearest first, with its sources; the schemes refused, withdrawn or taken to appeal within 40 km, your council first; and the fire service guidance each incident bears on.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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