The Scottish Ministers, through the Scottish Government’s Planning and Environmental Appeals Division (DPEA) and under the terms of section 46 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997, are currently considering an application made to Highland Council by Communities for Coul Ltd in respect of the matter set out above. This application was called-in by Scottish Ministers for their own determination.

The reporter appointed to make a decision on this appeal will hold a hearing session on the following topics:

Matters to be considered at the hearing session:

• Ecology

• Tourism and socio-economic effects

• Matters of concern to the local community

• Conditions

The session will begin on 11 November 2024 at 10:00am within Embo Community Centre and is expected to will run for 5 days. This will include an evening session for the local community on 14 November 2024 beginning at 19:30 and is expected to take up to 3 hours.

Members of the public can follow the proceedings through the broadcast to the internet as part of DPEA’s webcasting service. The webcast recordings will be available to view at: http://dpea.public-i.tv/core/portal/home. The documents relating to the application can be viewed at Dornoch Service Point, Carnegie Library, 8 High Street, Dornoch and Highland Council Offices, HQ, Glenurquhart Road, Inverness, IV3 5NX

Attendees and/or participants may wish to note that this meeting will be broadcast live to the internet as part of DPEA’s webcasting service. Generally, the public seating areas will not be directly filmed however by entering the meeting venue and using the public seating area, you are consenting to being filmed and to the use and storage of those images and sound recordings and any information pertaining to you contained in them for webcasting and training purposes and for the purpose of keeping historical records and making those records available to the public.

All appeal documentation is published on our website, http://www.dpea.scotland.gov.uk. On accessing the website, enter the case reference NA-270-010 in the ‘Search by case reference:’ box to find all documents relating to this case.

We collect information if you take part in the planning process, use DPEA websites, send correspondence to DPEA or attend a webcast. To find out more about what information is collected, how the information is used and managed please read the DPEA's privacy notice - https://beta.gov.scot/publications/planning-and-environmental-appeals-division-privacy-notice/

DAVID HENDERSON

Planning and Environmental Appeals

Hadrian House

Callendar Business Park

FALKIRK

FK1 1XR

Our ref: NA-270-010