Planning application
Battery Energy Storage System Holmquarry Road Kilmarnock Ayrshire KA1 4DA
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
Consultation under Section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 for a proposed new battery energy storage system (BESS) with a generating capacity of up to 60.4MW.
As published by the council, reference 24/0001/S36
Application record
- Reference
- 24/0001/S36
- Type
- Section 36
- Status
- Decided
- Decision
- Granted As published: Consultation Response - No Objection
- Received
- 11 Apr 2024
- Validated
- 11 Apr 2024
- Decided
- 25 Apr 2025
- Ward
- Kilmarnock West And Crosshouse
- Decision by
- Delegated
- Postcode
- KA1 4DA
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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11 Apr 2024
Received by East Ayrshire
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25 Apr 2025
Decision issued: Consultation Response - No Objection
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8 Sep 2026
Added to PlanIndex
Related applications
Cases linked to this one on the register
1 later application on the register refers to this one:
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26/0031/S36AMC Granted
2 Holmquarry Road Kilmarnock East Ayrshire KA1 4DA
Submission for approval of condition 11(a) (Contaminated Land Works) of planning permission 24/0001/S36 Holmquarry BESS
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
71 documents on file for this application
- Scottish ministers' decision consented
- Application pdf
- Updated suds clarification memo holmquarry rd kilmarnock mar25
- Application pdf
- Updated figure 1_12 _ lemp
- Updated figure 4 _ infra layout a3
- Application pdf
- Lemp
- Figure 13_1 site elevations overview
- Figure 13_2 site elevations without mitigation
- Figure 13_3 site elevations with mitigation
- Figure 4 infrastructure layout
- Application pdf
- Landscape and visual impact assessment
- Fei request
- Development description and reasonable alternatives
- Fire risk management plan
- Hydrology
- Landscape and ecology management plan
- Biodiversity management plan
- Carbon lifecycle report
- Skills and employment plan
- Noise impact assessment
- Biodiversity net gain
- Biodiversity metric
- Further environmental information response
- Application pdf
- Accon noise report
- Appendix 7b- methodology
- Appendix 7c- residential visual amenity assessment
- Site location map
- Security fence
- Cctv
- Distribution network operator breaker
- Site notice and location
- Aerial view
- Infra layout a3
- Infra layout a1
- Access track detail
- Battery container detail
- Power control system and transformers
- Customer switchroom
- Holmquarry road battery location plan
- Landscape figures 7_1 to 7_8
- Application pdf
- Vol 1- non technical summary
- Vol 2 chapter 10- summary of effects and mitigation
- Vol 2 chapter 2- development description and reasonable alternatives
- Vol 2 chapter 3- planning policy
- Vol 2 chapter 4- hydrology
- Vol 2 chapter 5- preliminary ecological assessment
- Vol 2 chapter 6- cultural heritage and archaeology
- Vol 2 chapter 7- landscape and visual impact assessment
- Vol 2 chapter 8- noise
- Vol 2 chapter 9- climate change
- Vol 4- construction traffic management plan
- Vol 4- decommissioning statement
- Vol 4- design and access statement
- Vol 4- fire risk assessment
- Vol 4- flood risk assessment and drainage impact assessment
- Vol 4- outline construction environmental management plan
- Vol 4 phase 1- contaminated land report pages 1-44
- Vol 4 phase 1- contaminated land report pages 45-80
- Vol 4 phase 1- contaminated land report pages 81-135
- Vol 4 phase 2- contaminated land report
- Vol 4- planning statement
- Vol 4- pre application community consultation report
- Vol 4- transport statement
- Vol 4- tree impact report
- Site location map
- Infrastructure layout
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East Ayrshire granted permission on 25 April 2025, subject to any conditions on the decision notice. Work must normally begin within three years or the permission lapses. More in our guide to what happens after a planning decision.
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