Community / Planning round-up 23 December
PLANS have been lodged to modify and refurbish the Brough kirk in Whalsay after the building was taken on by the community.
A key aim is to turn the B-listed building into a flexible community space, and this includes the removal of most of the pews.
Also proposed is the installation of an accessible toilet, repairing walls, flooring and roofing, installing insulation, replacing windows and putting in place a new air source heat pump.
The Whalsay Kirk Development Company took ownership of the church in 2023.
PLANS have now been submitted for an electric vehicle charger at the Brae Youth Centre.
The proposal is for an 80kVA rapid charger.
Electric vehicle charging is part of plans to turn the youth centre into a rural energy hub.
Meanwhile a rapid charge point is also being proposed for the car park at the Islesburgh Community Centre in Lerwick.
A GLAMPING pod has been proposed in Lerwick.
The pod would be located within a garden of a domestic property on Twageos Road.
PLANNING conditions are now being discharged for the proposed battery storage system which will be located opposite Lerwick Power Station.
The system would be used if there is an outage on the subsea interconenctor cable between Shetland and the Scottish mainland, providing electricity to the isles while Lerwick Power Station takes time to come out of standby mode.
One planning condition being discharged relates to the cost of decommissioning the battery system.
Documents show that contractor Zenobe estimates that it would cost around £1.2 million to demolish the infrastructure and restore the site, which will be near to SSE’s grid supply point buildings which are being constructed behind Ocean Kinetics.
THE COUNCIL has lodged plans to turn part of the Whalsay ferry waiting building into office space for harbour workers.
The exterior of the building would receive some work too, including a new ramp and a section of roof being insulated.
If the plans came to fruition the waiting space for the public would reduce from 18 square metres to 10 square metres.
A FARM in Tingwall is seeking to install a 6kW wind turbine.
An application has been submitted for a turbine – which would have a nine metre high tower – on Setter Farm.
A supporting statement said the turbine would provide a source of renewable energy for one of the residential buildings on the applicant’s farm.
Setter farm already has three small wind turbines installed to the north of the farm, providing renewable energy to various buildings since 2015.
MEANWHILE planning consent has been granted for two 5kW wind turbines near to the marts in Lerwick.
The application, from Shetland Livestock Marketing Group, says the tower height would be 15 metres.
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