Planning application
Land South Of Dougliehill Road And East Of B788 Port Glasgow PA14 5AH
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
Development of 25MW solar farm with associated infrastructure, including substation, solar PV transformers, CCTV, security fencing, internal access tracks.
As published by the council, reference 25/0125/IC
Application record
- Reference
- 25/0125/IC
- Type
- Full Planning Application
- Status
- Granted Subject To Conditions
- Decision
- Granted As published: granted subject to conditions
- Received
- 24 Jul 2025
- Validated
- 20 Aug 2025
- Decided
- 2 Sep 2026
- Ward
- Ward 2 - Inverclyde East Central
- Parish
- Port Glasgow West Community Council
- Decision by
- Committee
- Postcode
- PA14 5AH
Timeline
Dates from the published record
-
24 Jul 2025
Received by Inverclyde
-
20 Aug 2025
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
-
5 Aug 2026
Added to PlanIndex
-
2 Sep 2026
Decision issued: granted subject to conditions
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
101 documents on file for this application
- Knocknair Auxiliary Transformer Elevations
- Knocknair CCTV Elevation
- Knocknair DNO Cabin Elevations
- Existing Site Plan
- Knocknair Fence Elevations
- Knocknair Gate Elevations
- Knocknair Road Section
- Knocknair Solar Panel Elevations
- Knocknair Solar PV Transformer Elevations
- Knocknair Substation Housing MV Switchgear
- Location Plan
- Site Layout Plan
- Site Layout Panel Solar Detail
- Granted Subject to Conditions
- Report of Handling - Planning Board
- Viewpoint 1 (B788 junction)
- Viewpoint 2 (Wind Farm)
- Viewpoint locations
- Site Layout (updated)
- Viewpoint 3 - Auchentiber Road (baseline only)
- Viewpoint 4 - Devol Road
- Viewpoint 5 - Golf Club car park (baseline only)
- Viewpoint 6 - Dougliehill Road
- Viewpoint 6 - Dougliehill Road (2)
- Junction (additional drawing)
- Forward visibility (1)
- Forward visibility (2)
- Cattle grid
- General enquiry
- NN List posted 23.06.2026
- Devol Moor
- Devol Sub Station Detail
- Updated Development Proposal with Planting at Year 15
- Phot montage Showing Updated Development Proposal
- response to Draft Committee Report
- Updated Site Plan
- Updated Solar Plan
- Updated VP1
- Updated VP2
- Viewpoint 6
- Layout changes (Roads)
- Junction access
- Swept path analysis
- Glare effects on the Roads - Technical Memo v2 (r)
- Knocknair - Outline Fire Safety Management Plan v02
- Ecia figure 1 updated
- ecia figure 2
- Ecia figure 3
- Ecia figure 4
- ecia report updated
- PDAS updated
- Reptile Survey
- Socio economic report
- EcIA Appendix A
- EcIA Appendix B
- EcIA Appendix C
- EcIA Figure 1
- EcIA Figure 2
- EcIA Figure 3
- EcIA Figure 4
- EcIA Report
- HRA Screening Report
- LVA Figure 1
- LVA Figure 10
- LVA Figure 11
- LVA figure 12
- LVA Figure 13
- LVA Figure 14a_b
- LVA Figure 15
- LVA Figure 16
- LVA Figure 17
- LVA Figure 18
- LVA Figure 2
- LVA Figure 3
- LVA Figure 4
- LVA Figure 5
- LVA Figure 6
- LVA Figure 7
- LVA Figure 8
- LVA Figure 9a_d
- LVA Report
- OBEMP Report
- Flood Risk Assessment
- Peat Survey Technical Note
- Amendment to Application
- Water Environment Appraisal
- Archaeology and Heritage Impact Assessment Report 2_2
- Archaeology and Heritage Impact Assessment Report part 1_2
- Bat Suitability Report
- Knocknair BESS Elevations
- Knocknair BESS PCS Elevations
- GCN eDNA Report
- Glint and Glare Assessment
- Noise Impact Assessment
- Knocknair OCEMP
- Pre Application Consultation Report
- Knocknair Planning Design and Access Statement
- Protected Mammals Report
- Reptile Assessment
- Knocknair OFMSP
- Transport Statement
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Open the documentsWhat this grant of permission means
Inverclyde granted permission on 2 September 2026, 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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