APP/2025/0089 - Full Planning Permission for Installation of Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) up to 49.9MW Comprising Battery Storage Units, Ancillary Buildings, Equipment and Associated Infrastructure Land at Bridgend Farm, Arbuthnott, Laurencek
September 2, 2025 Kincardine and Mearns Area Committee (Committee) Unknown View on council websiteThis summary is generated by AI from the council’s published record and supporting documents. Check the full council record and source link before relying on it.
Summary
...to grant full planning permission for the installation of a 49.9MW Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) at Bridgend Farm, Arbuthnott, Laurencekirk, subject to conditions including a lighting strategy, community wealth building and socio-economic strategy, and appropriate material finishes, despite community concerns about visual impact.
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Purpose
Proposal is being recommended for approval
however concerns are held by the local community in relation to the
localised visual impact. Development is located in an open
agricultural landscape in close proximity to the birthplace of
author Lewis Grassick Gibbon (property not listed).
Content
subject to the addition of the following
conditions: -
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Lighting Strategy
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Community Wealth Building and Socio-Economic Strategy
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Appropriate material finishes.
Related Meeting
Kincardine and Mearns Area Committee - Tuesday, 2nd September, 2025 9.30 am on September 2, 2025
Supporting Documents
Details
| Outcome | Note |
| Decision date | 2 Sep 2025 |