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New purpose for disused Buckie museum, facilities at Speyside distillery and extension to Elgin car display space

Planning applications include transformation of Buckie museum, car display space extension and  facilities at Speyside distillery.
Planning applications include transformation of Buckie museum, car display space extension and facilities at Speyside distillery.

Welcome to our regular look at the latest planning applications passing before Moray Council.

The region’s planners have approved plans to turn a former Buckie museum into a windfarm firm’s office and extension to car display space in Elgin.

Plans have been submitted to demolish facilities to make way for a new bunded tank at Speyside distillery.

And there are plans for an extension to a Forres flat.

Read on for more details.

APPROVED: From fisherman tales to planning windfarms

A former museum will be turned into an office for a windfarm firm.

The Buckie Drifter Maritime Heritage Centre, on the town’s Freuchny Road, has lain empty for 17 years.

Buckie Drifter used to be a museum before its closure.

It opened in 1994, telling the story of the fishing communities along the coast of the Moray Firth and the importance of the herring industry.

The Drifter closed its doors in 2005 following rising costs and dwindling visitor numbers.

The new purpose comes after an application for the change of use of the building submitted by Corstorphine + Wright on behalf of Moray West Offshore Windfarm Limited was approved.

Have a look at the office layout:

 

This office will provide space for the company’s construction team.

It will comprise open plan and cellular office space with canteen, showers, toilets and storage.

APPROVED: Extension to car display space

Vacant land will be used for the sale and display of motor vehicles for firm Paul Williamson Cars.

Colin Armstrong Architects represented Paul Williamson in the application for the change of use of land on Riverside Road, Elgin.

Paul Williamson Car Sales in Elgin.

The undeveloped site is currently designated as classes 4 (business), 5 (general industrial) and 6 (storage or distribution in the Moray local development plan.

With planning approved, the site will be laid to gravel or tar with edge kerbing only.

SUBMITTED: Give me light

An application has been submitted to erect ground mounted solar panels at a farm.

The plans are for the Orbliston Farm, Fochabers.

The Greenspan Agency is representing the Firm of A M Shepherd in the application for the panels on the vacant land with grass cover.

What the solar panels could look like at Orbliston Farm.

SUBMITTED: Work at Elgin Business Park

A new industrial unit with yard associated access parking could be built at the Elgin Business Park.

Moray Distillery Limited is being represented by Springfield Real Estate Management for the building proposed at the business park’s site 14.

Elgin Business Park.

There are 18 parking spaces proposed at the site.

The business park is over 50 acres and offers the opportunity for occupiers to expand their existing business or establish a new base in the area.

Drawing of proposed unit at Elgin Business Park.

DECIDED: Oxygen storage tank

A new large oxygen storage tank will be built at Dr Gray’s Hospital.

The tank will replace the existing one to increase their oxygen storage capacity on site to meet future needs and demands.

Where the proposed new oxygen tank will be erected to replace the existing one.

The new oxygen tank will sit within a fenced compound to the south west of the hospital.

Arch Henderson represented NHS Grampian in the application.

New oxygen storage tank at Dr Gray’s hospital.

In a planning statement, they said: “The overall impact of the change will be minimal to the surrounding residential streets.

“It will sit in the same location as the existing within the compound. The tank will be white and may also have similar annotation as the existing tank.”

Dr Gray’s Hospital. Picture by Jason Hedges.

SUBMITTED: Changes at Speyside distillery

Plans to demolish existing bunded tanks, chemical store and substation to make way for a new bunded tank farm at Speyside distillery.

Blyth & Blyth Consulting Engineers have lodged the application on behalf of Chivas for the Allt-a-Bhainne Distillery, Glenrinnes.

Allt-a-Bhainne Distillery.

Allt-a-Bhainne was founded in 1975 by Chivas, then a subsidiary of Seagram and later, as of 2001, of drinks giant Pernod Ricard.

The distillery was built to ensure a steady supply of whisky for Chivas’ blended products.

A new bunded tank farm and dedicated loading bays will be erected within the rear service yard.

The construction of an internal road will also take place.

This will allow the distillery to implement a one way traffic flow for process HGVs eliminating the requirement for reversing movements on site.

 

SUBMITTED: Forres flat extension

An application has been submitted to alter and extend ground floor flat in Forres.

The plans are for An Cala , Edgehill House.

CM Design is representing Barbara Vincent in the application.

Where the proposed extension could take place.

The proposed changes include a new grand entrance and door openings.

The proposed extension is located to the southeast of the dwelling which is garden ground laid to both loose gravel and hard standing in areas.

Further planning applications can be viewed using Moray Council’s portal.

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