Item 12 Appendix 3: Nature Scot Comments Highland Windfarm 20250080PAC

This document contains NatureScot's response to a consultation regarding the proposed Highland Wind Farm, focusing on its potential landscape and visual impacts on the Cairngorms National Park (CNP) and the Monadhliath Wild Land Area (WLA) 20. NatureScot objects to the proposal, stating it would significantly harm the special qualities of the CNP and result in substantial loss of wild land in WLA 20, affecting key landscape qualities and experiences, especially regarding wildness and dark skies and it would also erode the contrast between settled areas and natural uplands, affecting the sense of nature's dominance and it adds that the cumulative effect of this, along with other wind farms would worsen these impacts and NatureScot does not believe the negative effects can be mitigated by simply redesigning or removing turbines.