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PLANS for a huge new solar power facility to be built near Airdrie have been given the green light.
North Lanarkshire Council chiefs granted planning permission for the former Dalmacoulter Landfill site to be transformed into a renewable energy hub.
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The proposals include the installation and operation of 1,750 photovoltaic panels organised into 10 arrays, each mounted on a solar panel table.
The site will also feature essential infrastructure such as mounting frames, a transformer kiosk and an on-site substation, as well as security fencing and CCTV
A report on the decision noted that the development is consistent with key environmental and renewable energy policies while successfully repurposing a brownfield site.
It also highlighted that existing tree cover in the surrounding area will effectively screen the panels from the landscape.
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And planned habitat improvements will more than compensate for any minor losses during construction.
The development was given the go ahead subject to conditions.
Elsewhere, plans to revamp a prominent building at Glasgow’s crime-hit Four Corners have been approved – with proposals for a 170-room hotel on the upper floors.
Glasgow City Council has given the green light to proposals to overhaul the front of the building at Argyle Street and Jamaica Street which was formerly Pizza Hut.
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The area is currently part of Glasgow’s new dispersal zone which brought in new powers for cops in a bid to clean up some of the most notorious problem spots of the city.
The Four Corners as well as areas like Union Street, the Hielanman’s Umbrella and St Enoch Square have become hotspots for drug dealing, violence and drunken chaos.
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