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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Form­al Board Paper 2 14^th June 2019

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

FOR DIS­CUS­SION

Title: NATION­AL PARK PART­NER­SHIP PLAN PRO­GRESS ²⁰¹⁸⁄₁₉

Pre­pared by: GRANT MOIR, CEO

Pur­pose

The Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan is the stra­tegic plan for the Nation­al Park that all pub­lic bod­ies must have regard to in their work in the Park. It can be found here. The Plan: a) Sets out the vis­ion and over­arch­ing strategy for man­aging the Cairngorms Nation­al Park; b) Guides the work of all pub­lic bod­ies and oth­er part­ners to deliv­er the aims of the Park; c) Provides the stra­tegic con­text for the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan; d) Sets out the region­al land use frame­work for the Park; e) Provides the stra­tegic con­text for man­aging the Park as a sus­tain­able tour­ism des­tin­a­tion; and f) Shows how the Park will con­trib­ute to the Scot­tish Government’s core pur­pose and nation­al outcomes.

Each year the CNPA and its part­ners look at what pro­gress has been made against the actions and tar­gets. The report for ²⁰¹⁸⁄₁₉ will be launched pub­licly on the day of the Board meet­ing. A link to the pro­gress report will be sent to members.

As part of the Board meet­ing five part­ners have been asked to come and explain the work that they do in the Park, what they have con­trib­uted to the deliv­ery of the NPPP in the last year and future plans. The five are Scot­tish Nat­ur­al Her­it­age, High­land & Islands Enter­prise, Aber­deen­shire Coun­cil, Scot­tish Forestry and VisitScotland.

Recom­mend­a­tion

The Board is asked to: i. Note the pro­gress in ²⁰¹⁸⁄₁₉ and to identi­fy any areas for pri­or­ity work across the Part­ner­ship in the year ahead.

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Form­al Board Paper 2 14^th June 2019

Stra­tegic Policy Considerations

1. There has been sig­ni­fic­ant pro­gress across the agen­das for action in the NPPP and the report high­lights pro­gress against the indic­at­ors in the NPPP. The Board should con­sider wheth­er pro­gress is being made at the pace that will enable the actions in the NPPP to be delivered by 2022 and where the part­ner­ship needs to pri­or­it­ise work in the com­ing years.
2. The con­text in which the NPPP is delivered also changes. The Nation­al Per­form­ance Frame­work guides the work of all pub­lic bod­ies in Scot­land and has been recently updated. The recent cli­mate change and biod­iversity emer­gency announced by Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment will have a pro­found impact on the work of the Author­ity and part­ners with­in the Park. This will spe­cific­ally impact on issues, such as, peat­land res­tor­a­tion, wood­land expan­sion and flood man­age­ment. We will work closely with envir­on­ment and forestry col­leagues in Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment to look at our con­tri­bu­tion to this as a Nation­al Park.
3. In 2019 there are also two fur­ther reviews that will impact on work in the Park and the work of part­ners. These are the Grouse Man­age­ment Review and the Deer Man­age­ment Review.

Stra­tegic Risk Management

1. The main stra­tegic risk for the NPPP is around resources:
2. Al: Resources – are there enough fin­an­cial and people resources to deliv­er the NPPP by 2022? At present NPPP deliv­ery is on track but there is a need to con­tin­ue to lever­age in sig­ni­fic­ant funds and to ensure that part­ners are deliv­er­ing with­in the Park. The annu­al mon­it­or­ing that the CNPA carry out on deliv­ery should mit­ig­ate this risk and high­light areas where more effort is needed.

Grant Moir June 2019 grantmoir@​cairngorms.​co.​uk