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Keiser's Coul Links Project (Embo/Dornoch)
David_Tepper:
Just saw this article on the "calling in" hearing for the Coul Links project. The hearing will begin in late February and could take 4 weeks.
Two questions for those who might know: 1) Does anyone know how long it might take "the powers that be" to make a decision? 2) Will "the powers that be" make a decision to simply approve or deny the project as proposed or do they have the option of approving the project with limitations or changes to what has been proposed?
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands/1599280/rules-teed-up-for-coul-links-inquiry/
Niall C:
David
The following is from the guidance note issued by Scottish Minsters following the Balmedie debacle.
WHAT HAPPENS ONCE AN APPLICATION IS CALLED-IN? Once an application is called-in, the Scottish Ministers effectively become the planning authority for that application. This means that Scottish Ministers are required to ensure that issues such as neighbour notification and public consultation are carried out as required by legislation. In practice, as many applications are only called-in once the planning authority are minded to grant permission, much of this is work will already have been carried out. Such administrative tasks and general management of the application process following a call-in are handled by Scottish Government planning officials.
Just as local authorities rely on their planning staff to consider a planning application and make recommendations, so Scottish Ministers rely on an independent Reporter working for the Directorate of Planning and Environmental Appeals, formerly the Scottish Executive Inquiry Reporters Unit (SEIRU), to examine the merits of a called-in application. The Reporter considers the application, prepares a report setting out their conclusions and recommends whether Scottish Ministers grant the application unconditionally, grant the application subject to conditions or refuse the application. The report is then submitted to Scottish Ministers who subsequently issue their decision, which does not have to follow the Reporter’s recommended course of action.
Niall
Lou_Duran:
OK, at this moment, what is the over and under for the course being built?
Jon Wiggett:
Lou,
I doubt anyone can say at the moment. It should be a slam dunk approval but politics are involved now.
Mark Chaplin:
It’s interesting Coul is a “special untouched place” etc, etc yet there’s an old railway line running through the property and a horrid area of harvested woodland. I can only see a golf course improving and preserving the site for the future.
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