Agenda - Planning Committee - 06 08 2025
West Dunbartonshire Council · 6 August 2025
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Agenda Planning Committee Date: Wednesday, 6 August 2025 ___________________________________________________________________ Time: 10.00 a.m. ___________________________________________________________________ Venue: Council Chambers, Clydebank Town Hall, 5 Hall Street, Clydebank G81 1UB _________________________________________________________________ Contact: Nicola Moorcroft, Committee Officer Email: nicola.moorcroft@west-dunbarton.gov.uk committee.admin@west-dunbarton.gov.uk Dear Member Please attend a meeting of the Planning Committee as detailed above. The business is shown on the attached agenda. Yours faithfully PETER HESSETT Chief Executive
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Distribution:- Councillor Lawrence O’Neill (Chair) Councillor Gurpreet Singh Johal (Vice Chair) Councillor Kevin Crawford Councillor Ian Dickson Councillor David McBride Councillor Fiona Hennebry Provost Karen Murray Conaghan Councillor Lauren Oxley Councillor Hazel Sorrell Councillor Clare Steel All other Councillors for information Date of Issue: 24 July 2025
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PLANNING COMMITTEE WEDNESDAY, 6 AUGUST 2025 AGENDA 1 APOLOGIES 2 DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST Members are invited to declare if they have any interests in the items of business on this agenda and the reasons for such declarations. 3 OPEN FORUM The Committee is asked to note that no open forum questions have been submitted by members of the public. 4 MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING 5 - 18 Submit for approval, as a correct record, the Minutes of Meeting of the Planning Committee held on 4 June 2025. 5 PLANNING APPLICATION 19 - 33 Submit report by the Planning, Building Standards and Environmental Health Manager, in respect of the following Planning application:- DC25/076/FUL: Section 42 Application to vary Condition 12 - Working Hours (Amendment to DC24/081/Ful) at Artizan Centre College Way, Dumbarton by West Dunbartonshire Council. 6 APPLICATION DC22/245/FUL SCOTTISH MINISTERS DECISION ON PLANNING 35 - 37 Submit report by the Planning, Building Standards and Environmental Health Manager providing an update on Planning Application DC22/245/FUL which was referred to the Scottish Ministers. 7/
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7 NATIONAL PLANNING IMPROVEMENT FRAMEWORK 39 - 116 Submit report by the Planning, Building Standards and Environmental Health Manager providing an update on recent work undertaken by the Planning Service in relation to the National Planning Improvement Framework and the endorsement by the National Planning Improvement Team of the Performance Assessment and Improvement Plan. 8 DC25/019/S36: BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE FACILITY CONSISTING OF COMPOUND OF BATTERIES AND ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT, STORES, ACCESS TRACK, BUILDINGS, FENCING, POND, BUNDS AND NEW PLANTING AT BRAIDFIELD ROAD, HARDGATE, CLYDEBANK BY BRAIDFIELD BATTERY STORAGE LIMITED 117 - 143 Submit report by the Planning, Building Standards and Environmental Health Manager seeking agreement for a response to a consultation received from the Scottish Government Energy Consents Unit on behalf of the Scottish Ministers regarding a proposed battery energy storage system with a generating capacity of up to 100 megawatts. 9 DC23/223/S36: PROPOSED WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT 145 - 202 COMPRISING UP TO TEN WIND TURBINES OF APPROXIMATELY 7 MEGAWATTS (MW) EACH, WITH A MAXIMUM BLADE TIP HEIGHT OF UP TO 250M, AND BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM (BESS) WITH A CAPACITY UP TO 20 MW AT THE SITE OF THE PROPOSED VALE OF LEVEN WINDFARM, KILPATRICK HILLS, EAST OF ALEXANDRIA BY VALE OF LEVEN WIND FARM LIMITED Submit report by the Planning, Building Standards and Environmental Health Manager seeking agreement on an updated consultation response following the receipt of a revised proposal reducing the height of the proposed turbines together with updated supporting documents from the Scottish Government Energy Consents Unit, on behalf of the Scottish Ministers, in connection with a proposed wind farm development comprising up to ten wind turbines of approximately 7 megawatts (MW) each, with a maximum blade tip height of up to 250m, and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) with a capacity up to 20 MW at the Site of the Proposed Vale of Leven Windfarm, Kilpatrick Hills, East of Alexandria by Vale of Leven Wind Farm Limited.