The Town and Country Planning (Marine Fish Farms Permitted Development) (Scotland) Order 2011

Permitted development

3.—(1) Planning permission is granted for the classes of development specified in paragraph (2) subject to any limitation or condition specified in paragraphs (3) to (5).

(2) The classes of development are the operation of a marine fish farm—

(a) situated within those parts of the marine waters described in Schedule 1 and involving the use of equipment referred to in section 26AA(1)(b) of the Act for the purposes of the breeding, rearing or keeping of fish other than shellfish; and

(b) situated within those parts of the marine waters described in Schedule 2 and involving the use of such equipment for the purposes of the breeding, rearing or keeping of shellfish.

(3) Nothing in this Order permits development contrary to any condition imposed by any planning permission granted or deemed to be granted under Part III of the Act otherwise than by this Order.

(4) Paragraph (2) does not grant planning permission for development unless the equipment referred to in section 26AA(1)(b) of the Act—

(a) is in use on 23rd February 2011; or

(b) has been used between 1st January 2008 and 23rd February 2011,

for the purposes of fish farming.

(5) Planning permission granted by this Order is subject to the condition that in the event of any equipment falling into disrepair or becoming damaged, adrift, stranded, abandoned or sunk in such a manner as to cause an obstruction or danger to navigation, the developer shall carry out such works (including lighting, buoying, raising, repairing, moving or destroying the whole or any part of that equipment) so as to remove the obstruction or danger to navigation.