A planning application for a new whisky storage warehouse scheme at Bandeath Industrial Estate in Throsk has been submitted to Stirling Council by Ian Macleod Distillers (IMD).
Anticipated to create upwards of 25 full-time equivalent jobs, the development will house a series of buildings to provide additional capacity for the company’s operations across Scotland. This will comprise nine whisky storage warehouses, a blend centre associated to a tank farm, and an office building.
The warehouse buildings will store casks, allowing whisky to slowly mature for several years prior to it being sold in bulk or as cased goods.
Covering 20.2 acres, the site is described an ideal location for IMD to deliver a maturation warehouse scheme, given transport linkages to other components of the IMD estate, and the fact the site is zoned for employment uses in the Stirling Local Development Plan.
Casks will be filled and matured from all the IMD distilleries, which are Rosebank in Falkirk, Glengoyne in Stirlingshire and Tamdhu in Knockando on Speyside. Blended and Matured whisky will then be transferred to IMD’s bottling facility in Broxburn. Once packaged, they will be exported across the UK, the US, Europe and the Far East.
Reducing carbon emissions and lowering the carbon footprint of the development will be boosted by having no gas connection to the site, with all heating to occupied buildings catered for through electric powered systems.
Leonard Russell, MD of Ian Macleod Distillers, said, “We are delighted to be submitting this planning application for new whisky storage facilities at Bandeath, which will provide additional capacity for our operations across Scotland. The new facility will further secure our spirit supply chain and have a clear beneficial impact on both the local and the national economy.
“The new storage complex will provide considerable benefits to the community, delivering employment both in its construction and once complete. We have also given a commitment to promoting apprenticeship opportunities. With our broad commitment to addressing climate change and delivering net zero, our new facility will be highly sustainable and have minimum environmental impact.
“We have undertaken extensive engagement with the local community throughout this process and look forward to continue to engage with them as matters progress.”
