Planning Consent Submitted

The Scaraben Offshore Wind Farm, a floating and fixed-bottom innovation-led project of up to 99.5 MW located 58 km north of Fraserburgh, is being developed by Nadara under Crown Estate Scotland’s INTOG leasing round alongside the adjacent Sinclair and Broadshore projects. The official project website presents an indicative timeline that shows scoping requests for all development areas being submitted in 2024, reflecting the early-stage development status of the Broadshore Hub projects. In parallel, Marine Scotland’s marine.gov.scot register records a pre-application scoping case (SCOP-0040) for the Broadshore Hub Wind Farm Development Areas, listing Scaraben Offshore Wind Farm Limited as one of the applicants and confirming submission of a scoping report and HRA screening report in January 2024, followed by a scoping opinion in May 2024. Building on this scoping phase, the Scaraben timeline states that “consent applications” will be submitted for all development areas during the period from mid‑2025 to mid‑2026. Although individual application dates are not yet fixed, this window indicates when the developer expects to lodge the main statutory development consent applications for the wind farm and associated infrastructure with the Scottish authorities, moving from pre‑application engagement into the formal determination process. The same timeline shows that consent decisions are then expected between mid‑2026 and mid‑2027, with detailed engineering design and procurement commencing from mid‑2026 onward and construction targeted for the late 2020s, leading to early‑2030s commercial operation if consents are granted on schedule.