Skip to content
PlanIndex Get alerts
Menu

Planning application

Land Approximately 5km To The West Of Thurso

Awaiting decision Highland 25/03717/S36 Section 36

Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.

Proposal

Lythmore Solar Farm - Construction and operation of a Solar Farm of up to 100MW export capacity and up to 200MW Battery Storage and supporting infrastructure including inverters, cabling, access tracks and customer and transmission operator substations. This case will be determined by the Energy Consents Unit. Please visit Energy Consents Unit at https://www.energyconsents.scot/ApplicationSearch.aspx?T=2 using reference number ECU00004798

As published by the council, reference 25/03717/S36

Application record

Reference
25/03717/S36
Type
Section 36
Status
Under Consideration
Received
2 Oct 2025
Validated
2 Oct 2025
Ward
Thurso And North West Caithness
Parish
Caithness West Community Council
Decision by
Committee Decision

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 2 Oct 2025

    Received by Highland

  2. 11 Aug 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

  3. Decision

    Awaiting decision

    Decision expected by 27 November 2025, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.

    Highland took a median of 67 days over the applications it decided in the last year.

Documents

Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report

98 documents on file for this application

A planning file usually holds the application form, drawings and site plans, consultee responses, the officer's report and the decision notice.

Trade members open them from here.

Open the documents

What happens while it is decided

This application is with Highland for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year Highland's median decision took 67 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.

About this record

The published feed does not state which type of application this is; the register entry on Highland's portal will say. Our guide explains the common types.