Current status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 24 October 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-27536 by Tom Arthur on 28 May 2024, what information it has regarding how many applications have been made in each of the last five years by (a) Scottish Power Distribution Ltd and (b) other utility companies for necessary wayleaves in Scotland, and how many have been granted.
Details are as follows regarding applications from Scottish Power for necessary wayleaves in the last five years:
Year | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Necessary wayleave applications | 25 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
Necessary wayleaves granted | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Details are as follows regarding applications from other utility companies for necessary wayleaves, in this case Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN), in the last five years:
Year | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Necessary wayleave applications | 7 | 70 | 53 | 9 | 29 |
Necessary wayleaves granted | 2 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 0 |