Planning application
Westfield O C C S Fife
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
Construction of a Terrestrial Solar Farm and Associated Development (Section 42 application to vary condition 10 (landscaping) of 22/02880/FULL)
As published by the council, reference 25/02363/FULL
Application record
- Reference
- 25/02363/FULL
- Type
- Full Planning Permission
- Status
- Decided
- Decision
- Granted As published: Application Permitted with Conditions
- Received
- 20 Aug 2025
- Validated
- 20 Aug 2025
- Decided
- 27 Nov 2025
- Ward
- Glenrothes West And Kinglassie
- Parish
- Kinglassie
- Decision by
- Delegated - Major Developments
Site history
Applications at this address on the Fife register
This site has had 16 applications since 2022: 12 approved, 0 refused.
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25/02363/CND002 Awaiting decision
Westfield O C C S Fife
Compliance with Condition 2 of planning permission 25/02363/FULL - Contaminated Land Survey
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25/02363/CND006 Awaiting decision
Westfield O C C S Fife
Compliance with Condition 6 of planning permission 25/02363/FULL - SUDS
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25/02363/CND005 Awaiting decision
Westfield O C C S Fife
Compliance with Condition 5 of planning permission 25/02363/FULL - Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP)
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18/02342/NMV8 Granted
Westfield O C C S Fife
Application for the approval of Matters Specified in Conditions - Condition 2 plus the discharge of Conditions 10 (Datum Point), 13 (Landscaping) and 18 (Noise Assessment), solely in relation to the Energy Recovery Facility (and associated Auxiliary Energy Centre) component of the Westfield Restoration and Regeneration Project, as approved in principle under permission reference: 16/03661/EIA (Non-Material Variation to Incorporate design changes to the consented elevation drawings to planning permission 18/02342/ARC) (Payment Reference FRM-10016869)
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26/00450/FULL Granted
Westfield O C C S Fife
Planning permission in principle for restoration and development of former opencast site including power generation/storage; waste recovery/recycling; employment uses (Class 4 (light industry only) with ancillary office space, Class 5 and 6); rail off-loading facility, glass houses and other associated infrastructure (Section 42 application to vary condition 28 of 16/03661/EIA)
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26/00449/FULL Granted
Westfield O C C S Fife
Application for the approval of Matters Specified in Conditions - Condition 2 plus the discharge of Conditions 10 (Datum Point), 13 (Landscaping) and 18 (Noise Assessment), solely in relation to the Energy Recovery Facility (and associated Auxiliary Energy Centre) component of the Westfield Restoration and Regeneration Project, as approved in principle under permission reference: 16/03661/EIA. (Section 42 application to vary condition 13 of 18/02342/ARC)
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25/03430/SCR Decided
Westfield O C C S Fife
EIA Screening Opinion for proposed amendment to delivery days and times for waste feedstock into existing Westfield Energy Recovery Facility at the Former Westfield Opencast Coal Site
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18/02342/NMV6 Granted
Westfield O C C S Fife
Application for the approval of Matters Specified in Conditions - Condition 2 plus the discharge of Conditions 10 (Datum Point), 13 (Landscaping) and 18 (Noise Assessment), solely in relation to the Energy Recovery Facility (and associated Auxiliary Energy Centre) component of the Westfield Restoration and Regeneration Project, as approved in principle under permission reference: 16/03661/EIA (Non-Material Variation to 18/02342/ARC for design amendments)
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22/02880/CND005 Granted
Westfield O C C S Fife
Compliance with Condition 5 of Planning Permission 22/02880/FULL - PRIOR TO ANY WORK COMMENCING ON THIS SITE/PHASE, a phase-specific Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP) shall be submitted to and approved by Fife Council as planning authority. The CEMP shall include: i) A Construction Traffic Management Plan, which shall: - specify the type and number of vehicles expected to be using the site on a regular basis; - specify the vehicle delivery hours and the means for ensuring that delivery vehicles comply with those hours; - provide details of the construction compound(s); - provide for the parking and manoeuvring of vehicles of site operatives and visitors; - provide for the loading and unloading of plant and materials; - provide for the storage of plant and materials used in constructing the development; - specify off site construction vehicle routing and effects of the routing on the road network in terms of road closures etc; - specify any stopping up of public footways/public parking bays or area of the road network itself; - specify details of supporting staff/operative travel management initiatives; and - specify details for the management of and procedures for the delivery of abnormal loads. ii) Ecology: A scheme (including a Species Protection Plan) to minimise, mitigate and monitor potential impacts on ecological/ ornithological interests during construction of the phase shall be implemented in accordance with the construction related ecological mitigation measures contained in the Environmental Statement (Chapter 6 - Ecology and Nature Conservation and Appendix 13.1 - Summary of Mitigation Measures) of approved associated application 16/03661/EIA. Details of the findings of updated pre-start species surveys, along with details of any mitigation requirements and design changes, must be provided to Fife Council as planning authority in advance of work commencing on the phase.
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16/03661/CND019 Granted
Westfield O C C S Fife
Compliance with Condition 19 of Planning Permission 16/03661/EIA - Prior to any work commencing on each phase of the development, as set out in the approved Phasing Plan, details of the proposed external lighting (including the proposed light spillage zones) shall be submitted to and approved in writing by this Planning Authority.
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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20 Aug 2025
Received by Fife
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27 Nov 2025
Decision issued: Application Permitted with Conditions
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13 Aug 2026
Added to PlanIndex
Related applications
Cases linked to this one on the register
3 later applications on the register refer to this one:
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25/02363/CND002 Awaiting decision
Westfield O C C S Fife
Compliance with Condition 2 of planning permission 25/02363/FULL - Contaminated Land Survey
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25/02363/CND006 Awaiting decision
Westfield O C C S Fife
Compliance with Condition 6 of planning permission 25/02363/FULL - SUDS
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25/02363/CND005 Awaiting decision
Westfield O C C S Fife
Compliance with Condition 5 of planning permission 25/02363/FULL - Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP)
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
10 documents on file for this application
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Open the documentsWhat this grant of permission means
Fife granted permission on 27 November 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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Westfield O C C S Fife
Application for the approval of Matters Specified in Conditions - Condition 2 plus the discharge of Conditions 10 (Datum Point), 13 (Landscaping) and 18 (Noise Assessment), solely in relation to the Energy Recovery Facility (and associated Auxiliary Energy Centre) component of the Westfield Restoration and Regeneration Project, as approved in principle under permission reference: 16/03661/EIA (Non-Material Variation to 18/02342/ARC for design amendments)
Granted Conditions 14 docs -
Westfield O C C S Fife
Compliance with Condition 19 of Planning Permission 16/03661/EIA - Prior to any work commencing on each phase of the development, as set out in the approved Phasing Plan, details of the proposed external lighting (including the proposed light spillage zones) shall be submitted to and approved in writing by this Planning Authority.
Granted Conditions 6 docs -
Westfield O C C S Fife
Compliance with Condition 11 of Planning Permission 16/03661/EIA - Prior to any work commencing on each phase of the development, as set out in the approved Phasing Plan, the details of any acoustic fencing as may be required pursuant to condition 18 shall be submitted to and approved in writing by this Planning Authority. The acoustic fencing shall thereafter be implemented and maintained to the satisfaction of this Planning Authority. For the avoidance of doubt any acoustic fencing along the north western and western boundaries of the site shall have suitable natural vegetation screening on the outer non-site facing perimeter of the said fencing.
Granted Conditions 4 docs -
Westfield O C C S Fife
Compliance with Condition 2 of Planning Permission 18/02342/ARC - THAT PRIOR TO ANY WORK COMMENCING ON THIS SITE, as set out in the approved Phasing Plan, a fixed datum point shall be established and a plan indicating the exact location and value of this datum point shall submit to this Planning Authority for its prior written approval. The finished floor level(s) of the development relative to the fixed datum shall also be indicated on this plan. This agreed datum point shall be used for future reference as the development proceeds. This Planning Authority shall be notified at the stages listed below in order to obtain their written approval that works are proceeding in accordance with details approved as part of the planning permission:- a) Immediately prior to the completion of the ground floor, finished floor level. b) When the roof trusses have been erected but before roof covering takes place.
Granted Conditions Roofing 5 docs -
Westfield O C C S Fife
Compliance with Condition 5 of Planning Permission 22/02880/FULL - PRIOR TO ANY WORK COMMENCING ON THIS SITE/PHASE, a phase-specific Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP) shall be submitted to and approved by Fife Council as planning authority. The CEMP shall include: i) A Construction Traffic Management Plan, which shall: - specify the type and number of vehicles expected to be using the site on a regular basis; - specify the vehicle delivery hours and the means for ensuring that delivery vehicles comply with those hours; - provide details of the construction compound(s); - provide for the parking and manoeuvring of vehicles of site operatives and visitors; - provide for the loading and unloading of plant and materials; - provide for the storage of plant and materials used in constructing the development; - specify off site construction vehicle routing and effects of the routing on the road network in terms of road closures etc; - specify any stopping up of public footways/public parking bays or area of the road network itself; - specify details of supporting staff/operative travel management initiatives; and - specify details for the management of and procedures for the delivery of abnormal loads. ii) Ecology: A scheme (including a Species Protection Plan) to minimise, mitigate and monitor potential impacts on ecological/ ornithological interests during construction of the phase shall be implemented in accordance with the construction related ecological mitigation measures contained in the Environmental Statement (Chapter 6 - Ecology and Nature Conservation and Appendix 13.1 - Summary of Mitigation Measures) of approved associated application 16/03661/EIA. Details of the findings of updated pre-start species surveys, along with details of any mitigation requirements and design changes, must be provided to Fife Council as planning authority in advance of work commencing on the phase.
Granted Conditions 13 docs -
Westfield O C C S Fife
Application for the approval of Matters Specified in Conditions - Condition 2 plus the discharge of Conditions 10 (Datum Point), 13 (Landscaping) and 18 (Noise Assessment), solely in relation to the Energy Recovery Facility (and associated Auxiliary Energy Centre) component of the Westfield Restoration and Regeneration Project, as approved in principle under permission reference: 16/03661/EIA (Non Material Variation for design changes to the elevations and layout to 18/02342/ARC)
Granted Conditions 9 docs
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