Planning Consent Submitted

The Sinclair Offshore Wind Farm, a 99.5 MW floating offshore project being developed by Nadara 58 km north of Fraserburgh under Crown Estate Scotland’s INTOG leasing round, sets out an indicative regulatory pathway on its project website. Within this timeline, the developer states that consent applications for all development areas are scheduled to be submitted between mid‑2025 and mid‑2026. This milestone follows earlier scoping activity shown in the same timeline and represents the point at which Sinclair will move from pre‑application scoping into formal determination processes for its offshore and associated development areas. The reference to “consent applications submitted for all development areas” indicates that Sinclair plans a comprehensive package of planning or marine consent submissions covering the full scope of the project, rather than piecemeal applications. In parallel, the Scottish marine licensing portal (marine.gov.scot) records the Broadshore Hub Wind Farm Development Areas, including Sinclair Offshore Wind Farm Limited as an applicant, as being at the pre‑application scoping stage in early and mid‑2024, with scoping and HRA screening reports submitted in January 2024 and a scoping opinion issued in May 2024. This confirms that, as of 2024, Sinclair remains in the scoping phase and that the consent submissions referenced on the project website are forward‑looking. Once these consent applications are lodged in the mid‑2025 to mid‑2026 window, the project’s own timeline anticipates consent decisions from around mid‑2026 to mid‑2027. Successful determinations would then enable detailed engineering design, procurement, and ultimately construction and commercial operation in the late 2020s and early 2030s.