Proposed Development at Wick Harbour

Our ref: PCS/149615 Your ref: Wick Harbour

Yvonne Edmond If telephoning ask for: Transport Scotland Susan Haslam Edinburgh

By email only to: [email protected] 25 October 2016

Dear Ms Edmond

Harbours Act 1964 Proposed Development at Wick Harbour Wick Harbour

Thank you for consulting SEPA on the screening and scoping opinion for the above development proposal by way of your letter which we received on 21 October 2016.

Advice to the determining authority

Presuming that standard mitigation measures are put in place we consider that, with respect to our specific interests, Environmental Impact Assessment is not required for the above proposal.

Where relevant the developer should follow the guidance outlined in our SEPA standing advice for The Department of Energy and Climate Change and Marine Scotland on marine consultations, which also provides advice to developers working in the marine environment.

Unless there is a potentially significant impact on an aspect of the environment regulated by SEPA which is not dealt with adequately by our standard advice then we need not be consulted further on this proposal.

Regulatory advice for the applicant

Details of regulatory requirements and good practice advice for the applicant can be found on the Regulations section of our website. If you are unable to find the advice you need for a specific regulatory matter, please contact a member of the regulations team in your local SEPA office at: Strathbeg House, Clarence Street, Thurso, Caithness, KW14 7JS - Tel: 01847 894422. Should you wish to discuss this letter please do not hesitate to contact me on 01349 860359 or [email protected].

Yours sincerely

Susan Haslam Senior Planning Officer Planning Service

Disclaimer This advice is given without prejudice to any decision made on elements of the proposal regulated by us, as such a decision may take into account factors not considered at this time. We prefer all the technical information required for any SEPA consents to be submitted at the same time as the planning or similar application. However, we consider it to be at the applicant's commercial risk if any significant changes required during the regulatory stage necessitate a further planning application or similar application and/or neighbour notification or advertising. We have relied on the accuracy and completeness of the information supplied to us in providing the above advice and can take no responsibility for incorrect data or interpretation, or omissions, in such information. If we have not referred to a particular issue in our response, it should not be assumed that there is no impact associated with that issue. For planning applications, if you did not specifically request advice on flood risk, then advice will not have been provided on this issue. Further information on our consultation arrangements generally can be found on our website planning pages.