Camilty Wind Farm - Partnerships for Renewables

Camilty Wind Farm
Valued
Ecological
Receptor
Covering Legislation and Guidance Summary
Conservation
Value
Sensitivity
pipistrelle)
Under the Natural England guidance, soprano and
common pipistrelles are classified as medium risk of
collision with turbines. Scottish and UK populations of
these species are considered robust. Taking this into
consideration and the generally low numbers of bats
detected across the site, it is considered that the site
is of low value to bat populations.
Badger
This species is protected through the Protection of
Badgers Act 1992. In Scotland, this legislation was
updated by the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act
2004.
Evidence of badger activity was outside of the site.
Further details of this can be found in the Protected
Species Confidential Appendix.
Local
Low
11.6 Potential Significant Effects of the Scheme Prior to Mitigation
Construction
11.6.1 The approach used in the assessment of effects has been described in the methodology
section. There are a number of potential effects arising from activities related to the
development of the proposed wind farm that may affect the nature conservation interest of
the area and these are discussed below.
Pollution of Designated Sites
11.6.2 The development of the proposed wind farm has limited potential to affect the designated
sites as the catchment area of the wind farm site does not link with any of the designated
sites and should thus not affect their hydrology. The site is located within the Linhouse Water
catchment. The Linhouse Water is a tributary of the River Almond which ultimately drains
into the Firth of Forth near Cramond, Edinburgh. The majority of the site is drained through
the Crosswood Burn, a headwater of the Camilty Water.
11.6.3 The effect of the development on site hydrology and the effects associated with this are
detailed further in Chapter 13: Hydrology, Hydrogeology and Ground Conditions of this ES.
The effects below take into consideration the informed design of the development (Chapter
3: Design Evolution). The potential effect of this pollution is shown below in Table 11.11.
Table 11.11 Potential Unmitigated Effects and Associated Level of Effects of Pollution
on Designated Sites
Designated Site Sensitivity Magnitude Level of Effect (and significance)
Craigengar SAC and SSSI High Negligible Negligible (not significant)
Cobbinshaw Moss SSSI High Negligible Negligible(not significant)
Cobbinshaw reservoir SSSI High Negligible Negligible (not significant)
Linhouse valley SSSI High Negligible Negligible (not significant)
Hermand Birchwood SSSI High Negligible Negligible (not significant)
March 2013 11-29 ES Chapter 11
Terrestrial Ecology
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