About The Public Inquiry
A Public Inquiry into the Beauly-Denny power line proposals took place from 6 February 2007 to 21st December 2007. It was held in 5 sessions, starting with the Strategy session dealing with all the generic issues, and continuing with four area-based sessions, finishing with the Stirling session.
The
Reporters' findings on the Public Inquiry were completed and sent to the Energy Consents Unit on 17th February 2009.
Stirling Before Pylons Precognitions - Stirling Session
Stirling Before Pylons and Friends of the Ochils submitted a number of precognition documents to the Stirling Session of the Public Inquiry. These are all available for download from our
Precognition Archive.
These precognitions have been produced by Stirling Before Pylons / Friends of the Ochils witnesses. Hard copies of these (and those belonging to the Applicants and other parties) should be available through Stirling Central Library - for ease of public access. All these documents should also be on the
www.beaulydenny.co.uk website.
Evidence presented at Strategy Sessions
Stirling Before Pylons presented evidence on
health impacts of the proposed line. Download the
Statement of Case (43kb, pdf file).
The Eilean Aigas Estate presented evidence on undergrounding as a principle, cumulative impacts and strategic planning issues, and the need for the line.
Click here to download (1MB, pdf file).
Kiltarlity Community Council, Beauly Community Council and
Pylon Pressure in association with Communities Against Pylons presented evidence on range of issues.
Cairngorms Revolt Against Pylons presented evidence on undergrounding as a principle, cummulative impact, need for the line, strategic planning issues, and strategic impacts on the National Park.
All of the above Statements of Case were also presented on behalf of the umbrella organisation Scotland Before Pylons.
Visit Scotland presented evidence at the Strategy Session on tourism impacts.
Click here to download (698kb, pdf file).
Scottish Natural Heritage presented evidence on the route selection process, environmental impact assessment methodology, and impact to natural heritage interests.