when Scottish Natural Heritage will produce the annual update to the wind farm footprint maps.

There is no scheduled update of the Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) wind farm footprint map. The Scottish Government and SNH are in discussion with the UK Government about securing more comprehensive data on wind turbines supporting better mapping of wind turbines across the country on which everybody can rely. The Scottish Government and SNH are doing this in response to criticism that the wind farm footprint map previously produced by SNH was incomplete. SNH’s wind farm footprint map did not comprehensively capture all small scale wind farms and single turbines primarily as their remit was focussed on commenting on large scale wind farms.