Planning application
Peterhead, Persley And Kintore
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Reconductoring of approximately 51 kilometres (km) of an existing 275 kilovolt (kV) overhead line (OHL), connecting substations between Peterhead and Kintore to enable operation at 400 kV, and approximately 12 km of existing 132 kV OHL connecting the existing Persley Tee to Persley Substation to enable operation at 275 kV
As published by the council, reference 260495/S37
Application record
- Reference
- 260495/S37
- Type
- Consultation (S.37 Electricity Act)
- Status
- Pending
- Received
- 29 Apr 2026
- Validated
- 29 Apr 2026
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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29 Apr 2026
Received by Aberdeen City
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22 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 24 June 2026, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
Aberdeen City took a median of 54 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
9 documents on file for this application
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