Core CPD Framework:
- Championing Planning
- To hear the story of Kishorn’s journey to deliver regeneration: What were the drivers for the project, the challenges and the methods to make it happen.
- To understand how planners can use communication, leadership. Engagement to develop a deliverable regeneration project via collaborative working with local stakeholders.
- To understand how locational and geographical context can be considered when delivering UK and international goals.
- Climate Change and Environmental Planning
- How to use national policy, guidance (NPF4 and "Developing with Nature") and community engagement to deliver a Kishorn regeneration;
- Opportunities and challenges on delivering regeneration of historical industrial sites
- Methods and lessons of delivering regeneration that can be adopted by more local authorities.
Kishorn was one of the original 1970s oil & gas fabrication yards where a large dry dock was created for the purpose of building the 600,000t concrete Ninian Central platform. The yard continued to operate into the 1980s and then intermittently thereafter, eventually becoming a vacant site. The current partners, Leiths (Scotland) Limited and Ferguson Shipping & Transport came together in 2008 to create Kishorn Port Limited and spent some 10 years bringing the dry dock and wider site back into operation to the functioning dry dock and port facility it is today.
The port currently serves the oil & gas, aquaculture and decommissioning sectors, as well as undertaking some offshore renewable support and research & development work. The next step in its development is the expansion of the dry dock and the creation of an additional 9ha. of laydown land to serve the expanding renewables and offshore wind sector. The port is important employer locally and within the wider Wester Ross.
As set out within NPF4 Kishorn Port has the potential to provide significant opportunities that capitalise on natural assets and further strengthens the synergies between people, land and sea. Kishorn has complexities and there has to be a strong collaboration and alignment of terrestrial and marine planning. NPF4 sets out that new infrastructure and repurposing of land will help to shift industrial activity towards supporting the offshore renewables sector. Furthermore, Kishorn Port is named in NPF4 as a key strategic site for industrial investment and associated port infrastructure with plans for economic growth.
There have been a number of planning consents of the years, the most recent planning permissions are 20/03543/S42 to allow the decommissioning of shipping vessels and 20/03541/FUL for the extension to the dry dock to allow the decommissioning of marine structures.
Kishorn Port Ltd (KPL) are creating an extension to the dry dock area of their port. The proposed dry dock extension area comprises of a portion of land west north west of the existing dry dock. The dry dock extension has been proposed to allow the port to support the decommissioning of a wider range of structures. The dry dock extension is designed to allow longer vessels and structures to be accommodated, as the current dock dimension of circa 160m precludes the port being able to accommodate larger vessel sizes. The rock extracted from the dry dock extension will be used to create a further c.10ha. of laydown land designed for use by the offshore wind sector.
The proposal to extend the dry dock involves works above Mean Low Water Springs (MLWS) therefore permission was required under the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997.
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