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Optimised Environments Limited Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment Experience Optimised Environments Limited Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment Experience SLVIA Projects 2011-2012 Moray Offshore Wind Farm EDP/SeaEnergy Renewables (MORL) Argyll Array Offshore Wind Farm ScottishPower Renewables Outshore Point Tidal Project Aquamarine/ SSE Onshore Wind LVIA Projects 2009-2012 West Browncastle Wind Farm, Coriolis Limited Spurlens Rig Wind Farm, Scottish Borders Lomond Energy Craigannet Wind Farm, Lomond Energy Allt Dearg Wind Farm, Argyll Lomond Energy/ Ormsary Estate Glenmorie Wind Farm, Highlands Wind Energy Limited Earlshaugh Wind Farm Review, Borders Wind Energy Limited Coal Clough Wind Farm, Lancashire ScottishPower Renewables Dyfnant Forest LVIA review, Wales ScottishPower Renewables Halsary Wind Farm, Highlands ScottishPower Renewables Black Law Extension 2, North Lanarkshire ScottishPower Renewables East Kingswell Wind Farm, East Ayrshire ScottishPower Renewables Neslam Wind Farm Review, Lincolnshire ScottishPower Renewables Dersalloch Wind Farm, South Ayrshire ScottishPower Renewables Kilgallioch Wind Farm, East Ayrshire ScottishPower Renewables Holbeach Wind Farm Review, Lincolnshire ScottishPower Renewables Birniehill Wind Farm, North Lanarkshire SSE Renewables Bransford Bridge Wind Farm SSE Renewables Bracco Wind Farm, North Lanarkshire SSE Renewables Viking Wind Farm Review, Shetland SSE Renewables Cour Wind Farm, Argyll SSE Renewables Dalnessie Wind Farm, Highlands SSE Renewables Balmacaan Wind Farm, Highlands SSE Renewables Easter Tulloch Wind Farm, Angus Engena Limited optimised environments ltd 6th Floor | 24 Torphichen street | Edinburgh | EH3 8JB t 0131 221 5920 | w optimisedenvironments.com Optimised Environments Limited. Registered in Scotland SC359690. Registered address: 6th Floor, 24 Torphichen Street, Edinburgh, EH3 8JB. Carlton on Trent Wind Turbine, Nottingham Engena Limited Over Blairhill Wind Turbine, Perthshire Matthew Pease Grant Wind Turbine, Dumfries & Galloway Rodger Grant The A1 Wind Farm, County Durham E-ON Byram Wind Farm, Selby District E-ON Binneun Wind Farm, Highlands Ridgewind Limited Hill of Fishrie Wind Farm, Aberdeenshire Infinis Gordonstown Extension, Aberdeenshire Infinis Musdale Wind Farm, Argyll & Bute Infinis Sisters Wind Farm Review, Lincolnshire Infinis Mark Farm Wind Farm, Dumfries & Galloway Infinis Wingate Grange Wind Farm, County Durham Infinis Quixwood Moor Wind Farm, Scottish Borders BANKS Group Harburnhead Wind Farm, West Lothian Enel de Viento Tibberchindy Wind Farm, Aberdeenshire Infinis Glencassley Wind Farm, Highland SSE Renewables Skirts of Foudland Wind Farm, Aberdeenshire Infinis Whitelee Extensions Phases 2 and 3 ScottishPower Renewables Clyde Extension Wind Farm SSE Renewables Outh Moor Wind Farm, Fife REG Windpower Windy Edge Wind Farm, Scottish Borders Infinis Wind Farm Feasibility Studies 2009-2012 (specific locations are confidential) Lincolnshire SSE Renewables Cambridgeshire SSE Renewables Scottish Borders Infinis North Yorkshire ScottishPower Renewables Northumberland ScottishPower Renewables Dumfries & Galloway ScottishPower Renewables Dumfries & Galloway Infinis Argyll & Bute Infinergy Sutherland 2020 Renewables Skye 2020 Renewables Aberdeenshire Infinis North Yorkshire Ridge Wind Limited South Ayrshire SSE Renewables Scotland/ North of England (various) PNE Wind Scotland (various) Partnership for Renewables Non Wind Farm LVIA 2009-2012 Blackwood Radar, Cumbernauld SSE Renewables Inver Hydro, Jura Inver Farmers Mereclough Access Road ScottishPower Renewables Whitehill Gas Storage E-ON UK Ltd Jordanstown Campus, Northern Ireland University of Ulster Wantage Settlement Expansion, Oxfordshire Lands Improvement Wind Farm Public Inquiries/ Appeals* 2002-2012 White Hill Wind Farm, Burnley United Utilities Green Energy Craig Wind Farm, Scottish Borders Neil Ewart Drone Hill, Scottish Borders PM Renewables Dunion Hill, Scottish Borders WindJen Hunterston, Ayrshire ScottishPower Renewables Lynemouth, Northumberland ScottishPower Renewables Carland Cross Wind Farm, Cornwall ScottishPower Renewables Flood’s Ferry Wind Farm, Cambridgeshire ScottishPower Renewables Three Moors Wind Farm, Devon SSE Renewables Calliachar Wind Farms 1 & 2, Perthshire I&H Brown/ SSE Renewables Fewcott Wind Farm, Oxfordshire Bolsterstone Limited Newlands Wind Farm, Cumbria Bolsterstone Limited Poplar Lane, Staffordshire NUON Meikle Carewe Wind Farm, Aberdeenshire RES Dorenell Wind Farm, Moray Infinergy Tom nan Clach Wind Farm, Highlands Infinergy Aikengall 2 Wind Farm Community Windpower Limited Broadmeadows Wind Farm, Scottish Borders Green Power Limited Newlands Wind Turbine, Cumbria Bolsterstone Limited Beck Burn Wind Farm, Cumbria EDF Energy The Isles Anemometer Mast, County Durham E-ON *Some of the above Inquiries were undertaken by James Welch whilst employed at EDAW|AECOM .
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