GRIFFIN WIND FARM

Griffin Wind Farm was consented by the Scottish Government on 31 January 2008, and is the third largest wind farm project in Scotland to have received planning approval.

Stephenson Halliday have worked closely with GreenPower during design and landscape and visual assessment of the Griffin project over the period since 2003. In September 2006 Ken Halliday appeared as the expert landscape witness at the Public Inquiry.

The site is located within Griffin Scotstoun and Ballinloan Forest, to the south of Aberfeldy and north west of Dunkeld in Perthshire, comprising 68 no. turbines up to 124m high, giving an installed capacity of 204MW which will make this one of the largest wind farms in the UK.

The scope of work for this site has involved comprehensive landscape and visual assessment including advice on layout of the turbines, design of forestry operations to minimise potential landscape and visual effects and consideration of anticipated cumulative effects.

Client: Green Power (International) Ltd