NORoS - No Ring of Steel Kyle of Sutherland

Latest Update: ECU Portal submission process for Inveroykel Wind Farm - tips and tricks to be aware of & check whether yours has gone through!

Dear Supporter, For those of you who have not yet used the ECU portal for objecting to the Inveroykel wind farm we thought it would be useful to offer some notes based on the experience of those who have already submitted. Life, we learn, was not meant to be easy!

Getting Started: Go to the portal by clicking here for the direct link . Once you have completed your personal details and pressed “next”, you are taken to a page which asks you to:

(1) tick the box next to “Objection”; and (2) to then tick the appropriate boxes as to the reasons for your representation (objection) - click here for a screenshot for this list.

Press “next” again, and you are taken to a page with a text box into which you can submit your objection. The ECU suggests pasting it in so that the site does not time out, so it is best to prepare something in advance. Remember there is a character limit for representations of 32,700 which INCLUDES spaces and punctuation [if you have Microsoft Word characters can be calculated using Review/Word Count]. You may wish to write more, in that case the ECU states “If your full representation does not fit within a single submission on the portal, you are welcome to submit it in multiple parts. There is no limit to the number of representations an individual may submit within the consultation window for any given application”.
A WARNING ABOUT THE FINAL SUBMISSION PROCESS!
a) Once you have pressed the “submit” button on the portal you should be taken to a page which says that your submission has been successful, it advises that an email has been sent to the address you have given in your representation, and asks you to click the verification link in that email (be sure to click the correct link - it is the second one). This should activate a second email to your inbox which confirms submission of your Public Representation. Done!
b) BUT, if, having pressed “submit”, you are taken to a page which says “This representation has already been submitted”, it means that your objection has not gone through! This could be for a number of reasons, the most likely one being that the website timed out as you were working your way through the pages of the portal or writing in (or pasting in) your objection. Unfortunately if this does happen you will need to repeat the whole process. Having done that you should be taken to the message mentioned in (a) above. You will know that you have been successful and simply need to follow the verification process which will end with a separate email from the ECU confirming successful submission.

Objections to the Inveroykel Wind Farm are due with the Scottish Government Energy Consents Unit by 7th April 2026. This wind farm is planned to be located on publicly owned Forestry Scotland land, beside the Kyle of Sutherland, along with an associated Battery Storage unit, located very near to the Kyle and the village of Culrain.

For Guidance Notes for individual objections, please click here. We advise you do not postpone objecting, since the process for submitting objections has recently changed - details are on the last page of the Guidance Notes.

It is crucial that everyone who cares about our local environment and public amenity makes their views known. This is a major development of enormous size which could have a profound impact on Ardgay, Culrain and the whole Kyle region, potentially undermining safety and amenity for residents, clogging local roads with multiple heavy vehicles and other traffic over a number of years. Due to the complex nature of the development, we have issued an unusually long document which is divided into 3 sections, covering respectively: (1) Traffic, Transport and Ardgay; (2) The BESS installation near Culrain; and (3) Threats to the natural environment and to residential amenity in the upper KOS. We understand that individuals may be interested in objecting to different aspects of the development and have tried to present our advice accordingly.

Should this development be approved, it could open access to other developments on the south side of the Kyle which are currently in the planning queue. This would magnify the problems for Ardgay, Strathkyle, Rosehall and beyond.