Early Development Other

The Scottish Government Marine Directorate has recorded the issuance of a formal scoping opinion for the Arven Offshore Wind Farm on its marine.gov.scot project page. Under the listing for the Arven Offshore Wind Farm, which is shown as being at the “Pre-application” project stage and classified as “Renewables - Wind,” the site includes an entry titled “Scoping Opinion – SCOP-0048 – Arven Offshore Wind Farm” with an associated date of 2024-09-06. This entry is presented alongside other pre-application documentation types, confirming that it is an official project document rather than a generic reference. The explicit labelling of the document as a “Scoping Opinion” and the presence of a specific date indicate that, by 6 September 2024, the Marine Directorate had issued its formal scoping opinion for the Arven project. This represents a defined early development milestone, providing the authority’s formal response under the SCOP-0048 reference specific to Arven Offshore Wind Farm. The scoping opinion is distinguished from the earlier “Scoping Report – SCOP-0048 – Arven Offshore Wind Farm” and “HRA Screening Report – Arven Offshore Wind Farm,” both of which are dated 2024-05-28, showing a sequence from developer-led submissions to an authority-issued opinion. Together, these entries demonstrate that Arven has progressed through an initial phase of pre-application engagement to the point where the Marine Directorate has set out its formal scoping position for the project.