Torrylinn proposals clear first planning hurdle

A £6 million proposal to manufacture postbiotic products from the waste products of the two distilleries on Arran, has cleared its first planning hurdle.

 

Torrylinn Developments Limited, a newly-registered company based at the former Torrylinn Creamery site in Kilmory, would produce biological products for agriculture as well as animal feed and human food supplements from the pot ale liquid effluent and spent grain from Lochanza and Lagg distilleries.

 

The parent company is Marigot Limited, a Cork-based firm with worldwide interests owned by Arran Distillers' major shareholder Les Auchincloss, which told the Banner, in an interview last month, that it made sense for the distilleries to process their own waste.

 

A pilot project at Torrylinn is under way with completion expected by the end of February when the company will immediately move to finalise the plans for full-scale production by spring 2023 with a workforce of eight growing to 12 within the first three years.

 

However, to proceed the company required a Certificate of Lawfulness for a Proposed Use or Development, which has been granted by North Ayrshire Council planners who stated: 'The proposed use would be a continuation of the established Class 4 (business and industry) use of the site.'

 

The certificate is not equivalent in law to the granting of planning permission, but generally serves to confirm exemption from future planning enforcement action.