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Queen LOCKED IN BATTLE over plans to improve Balmoral estate amid RED squirrel CONTROVERSY
A MAJOR battle has broken out over the Queen’s plans to improve her Balmoral estate in Scotland, as critics have slammed proposals they believe will leave native red squirrels worse off.

Proposals by the Queen’s representatives to create a hydroelectric scheme on a river running through her 55,000-acre Aberdeenshire estate have been rejected by the body responsible for planning in the area.

Her representatives want to create a two-megawatt turbine that would harness the power of the River Muick.

The proposed turbine would also generate electricity worth up to £650,000 a year, it has been claimed.

However, objectors claim such a turbine being created close to a waterfall on the river will adversely affect the conditions that have attracted native red squirrels, badgers, otters, and voles.

Plans to improve the estate’s green credentials will now be held up until further investigations are carried out.

A report by the park authority, which has decided to put the brakes on the plan until it has been properly scrutinised, states: “This application seeks permission for the installation of a 2MW hydroelectric scheme on the River Muick, approximately 7km to the southwest of Ballater.

“The scheme comprises the construction of a buried pipeline approximately 3km long, a semi-buried powerhouse and a pipe and channel returning water to the river.

“This is considered to raise issues of significance to the collective aims of the national park.”

Aberdeenshire council has also suggested the development would breach guidelines which are intended to protect wildlife from excessive noise and vibration.

The local authority’s environmental health team manager, said: “I am concerned there may be noise emission from the proposals which could be detrimental to the amenity of neighbouring noise-sensitive receptors.”

The latest planning application submitted by Richard Gledson, The Resident Factor of the 55,000 acre Balmoral Estates, says: “Balmoral Estates has already developed a hydro scheme on the Gelder Burn, which was commissioned in 2014.

“Following on the success of this project, and with a view to increasing the economic and environmental sustainability of Balmoral Estates, a study was carried out in 2013 into the potential for additional hydro generation.”

The Balmoral estate was described by Queen Victoria as her “dear paradise in the Highlands”.

The estate has remained a royal retreat for generations.