[Update provided by Louise Anderson who is Community Liaisson Manager for Scottish & Southern Electricity (SSEN)]
I am writing to provide an update on SHE Transmission’s Glen Kyllachy Wind Farm Connection project.
October sees the Glen Kyllachy Wind Farm Connection project welcome Norpower, our overhead line Principal Contractor, to site for the commencement of the erecting of the wood pole line. Omexom, our substation Principal Contractor, arrived on site in September for the Glen Kyllachy substation work to begin. This now completes the arrival of all of our Principal Contractors who will be undertaking the cabling, substation and overhead line works.
To ensure the new Tomatin shop can be utilised by the site based teams we contacted the Community Council to request that a limited number of LGV vehicles (e.g. vans and 4×4’s) were permitted to take the workforce to site via the Tomatin village. This would allow for the workforce to stop at the village shop before arriving at site.
The last vehicle each morning will pass through Tomatin Village no later than 8.15am to avoid the period of children going to school, after this time access would only be permitted via the Farr and Glen Kyllachy Wind Farm haul road from the A9.
LGV’s will only be permitted to exit the site via the Farr and Glen Kyllachy Wind Farm haul road to the A9.
All other access to site will continue to be taken via the windfarm haul road and no HGVs or construction traffic will access site through the village of Tomatin.
As a responsible developer we will ensure that we keep the local community and all stakeholders informed as the project continues to progress.
