APRS Resources

  • Scotland’s Fourth Land Use Strategy Consultation

    We have responded to the consultation on the next iteration of the Land Use Strategy. We are concerned that Regional Land Use Partnerships are only mentioned in passing in this consultation and there is a lack of any levers or processes by which the vision in this document can be realised. Land Use Planning could be a powerful tool to help manage the land use change needed due to climate impacts - planning out the best places to deliver land-based adaptation and mitigation, realise the potential of multi-functional land use and to guide the places where renewables and energy infrastructure should be located and which areas should be avoided.  

  • Objection to mast at Ryvoan

    We have joined the local community, the RSPB, Mountaineering Scotland, JMT and many others in objecting to to a planned phone mast at Ryvoan, close to the bothy and in a remote area of the Cairngorms very popular with hill walkers and mountaineers and an important habitat for Capercaillie and other rare species.

  • Energy, landscape and planning FAQs

    As Scotland moves towards a more sustainable, net zero energy system, where we place renewable energy infrastructure and how communities

  • Historic Environment Scotland Reply

    This is the reply from Historic Environment Scotland after we expressed concerns over the plans for a battery storage facility that will impact on the historic landscape.

  • Representation on Whitehall BESS  

    This letter is our Objection to the Battery Storage Facility application ECU00004982 on 29 Hectares of Land near Cochno which would impact access, green belt and an important set of Neolithic carved stones

  • Letter to Historic Environment Scotland

    APRS has written this letter to express concern over the plans for a battery storage facility that will impact on the historic landscape of the Cochno cup and ring marked rocks near Faifley, Dumbartonshire

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