Planning application
Bankfield Lower Sound Lerwick Shetland ZE1 0RN
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
To erect dwellinghouse with integral garage; install air source heat pump; install new septic tank and connection to existing sea outfall pipe.
As published by the council, reference 2025/237/PPF
Application record
- Reference
- 2025/237/PPF
- Type
- Planning Permission Full
- Status
- Decided
- Decision
- Grant subject to conditions
- Received
- 18 Sep 2025
- Validated
- 19 Sep 2025
- Decided
- 19 Nov 2025
- Ward
- Lerwick
- Parish
- LERWICK
- Decision by
- Delegated Decision
- Postcode
- ZE1 0RN
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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18 Sep 2025
Received by Shetland Islands
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19 Sep 2025
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
-
19 Nov 2025
Decision issued: Grant subject to conditions
-
28 Jul 2026
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Who's behind it
Company information only, from the register and Companies House
Alan McKay Architect Agent, an architecture practice
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Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
28 documents on file for this application
- COVER EMAIL WITH LETTER RE LOCAL REVIEW
- ARCH EXTERNAL INTERESTED PARTY NOTIFICATION OF REVIEW
- SW EXTERNAL INTERESTED PARTY NOTIFICATION OF REVIEW
- ROADS - INTERNAL INTERESTED PARTY NOTIFICATION OF REVIEW
- DRAINAGE - INTERNAL INTERESTED PARTY NOTIFICATION OF REVIEW
- NOTICE OF REVIEW ACK LETTER
- APPLICATION LOCAL REVIEW
- DOCUMENT WITH POINTS FOR APPEAL - LOCAL REVIEW
- LOCATION PLAN
- SITE PLAN
- SITE SECTIONS
- GROUND FLOOR PLAN
- UPPER FLOOR PLAN
- NORTH AND SOUTH ELEVATIONS
- EAST AND WEST ELEVATIONS
- BIODIVERSITY ENHANCEMENT PLAN
- DETAILS OF ECODAN MONOBLOC ASHP
- DELEGATED REPORT OF HANDLING
- DECISION NOTICE
- ROADS -- COMMENTS
- CONSULTATION RESPONSES - DRAINAGE
- CONSULTATION RESPONSE - SCOTTISH WATER
- SHETLAND TIMES ADVERT
- CONSULTATION RESPONSE - ROADS
- CONSULTATION RESPONSE - ARCHAEOLOGY
- MSC SOUND CALCULATION FOR ASHP
- SKETCH VIEW FROM SEA ROAD
- APPLICATION FORM
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Open the documentsWhat this grant of permission means
Shetland Islands granted permission on 19 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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