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APPROVED COM­MIT­TEE MINUTES

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

APPROVED MINUTES OF THE PLAN­NING COM­MIT­TEE held at ALBERT HALL, BAL­LATER on 16^th August 2019 at 11.25

Mem­bers Present Elean­or Mack­in­tosh (Con­vener) Douglas McAdam Peter Argyle Xan­der McDade Car­o­lyn Cad­dick Wil­lie McK­enna Deirdre Fal­con­er lan McLar­en Pippa Had­ley Dr Fiona McLean Janet Hunter Wil­li­am Mun­ro John Kirk Dr Gaen­er Rodger John Lath­am Derek Ross Anne Rae Mac­don­ald Judith Webb

In Attend­ance: Grant Moir, Chief Exec­ut­ive Gav­in Miles, Head of Plan­ning & Com­munit­ies Dan Har­ris, Plan­ning Man­ager (For­ward Plan­ning & Ser­vice Improve­ment) Stephanie Wade, Plan­ning Officer, Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment Edward Swales, Mon­it­or­ing & Enforce­ment Officer Rhi­an­non Hold­en, Hill Track Intern Deidre Straw, Plan­ning Sys­tems Officer Dot Har­ris, Plan­ning Sup­port Officer

Apo­lo­gies: Geva Blackett

Agenda Items 1 & 2: Wel­come & Apologies

1. The Con­vener wel­comed all present.

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Agenda Item 3: Minutes & Mat­ters Arising from the Pre­vi­ous Meeting

1. The minutes of the pre­vi­ous meet­ing, 28^th June 2019, held at were approved sub­ject to the fol­low­ing amend­ments: a) Under Mem­bers Present Xan­der McDade was iden­ti­fied as Con­vener — this should have been Elean­or Mack­in­tosh. It was sug­ges­ted that in future who­ever is the con­vener will be first in the list for clarity.

2. There were no mat­ters arising.

3. The Con­vener provided an update on the Action Points from the pre­vi­ous meet­ing: • Action Point at Para. 19(i): Com­plete — addi­tion­al con­di­tion was added and decision notice issued.

4. Action Point arising: None.

Agenda Item 4: Declar­a­tion of Interest by Mem­bers on Items Appear­ing on the Agenda

1. There were no items declared.

Agenda Item 5: Applic­a­tion for Detailed Plan­ning Per­mis­sion (2019/0051/DET) Replace­ment of bridge slightly down­stream of the cur­rent bridge At Land 1300M NW of Ranger Base Office, Cairngorm Moun­tain, Glen­more, Aviemore Recom­mend­a­tion: Approve Sub­ject to Conditions

1. Stephanie Wade, Plan­ning Officer presen­ted the paper to the Committee.

2. The Com­mit­tee agreed to approve the applic­a­tion as per the Officer’s recom­mend­a­tion sub­ject to the con­di­tions stated in the report.

3. Action Point arising: None.

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Agenda Item 6: Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme 2019/2020 Recom­mend­a­tion: Approve

1. Dan Har­ris, Plan­ning Man­ager high­lighted a cor­rec­tion to the agenda, paper is for decision not for inform­a­tion; he then presen­ted the paper to the Committee.

2. The Com­mit­tee agreed to approve the Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme 2019/2020

3. Action Point arising: None.

Agenda Item 7: Oral update on Plan­ning Appeal – PPA-001‑2020 Applic­a­tion for Detailed Plan­ning Per­mis­sion (2019/0034/DET) Form­a­tion of car park At Land 40M NW of The Spin­ney, Inverness Road, Car­rbridge, Highland

1. Gav­in Miles, Head of Plan­ning & Com­munit­ies gave an oral report to the Com­mit­tee on cur­rent status of the plan­ning appeal. The fol­low­ing points were high­lighted: a) The report­er had determ­ined that the applic­a­tion requires an Envir­on­ment­al Impact Assess­ment (EIA) and gave the applic­ant 21 days to respond as to wheth­er they would under­take an EIA. This expired on Wed­nes­day 14^th August 2019; the applic­ant had not yet respon­ded and on 15^th August 2019 the report­er sent an email request­ing a response as soon as pos­sible. b) The report­er is no longer under an oblig­a­tion to con­sider the appeal, but has not dis­missed the appeal as of the date of plan­ning com­mit­tee. c) Fur­ther updates will be giv­en to the com­mit­tee once received.

2. Action Point arising: None.

Agenda Item 8: Update on Beauly-Denny Trans­mis­sion Line Pro­ject Res­tor­a­tion Monitoring

1. Gav­in Miles, Head of Plan­ning & Com­munit­ies presen­ted the paper to the Committee.

2. The Com­mit­tee were invited to dis­cuss the report, the fol­low­ing points were raised: a) It was com­men­ted that SSE have been will­ing to take advice from CNPA staff. b) It was reques­ted that we emphas­ise to SSE the need for more prompt reports as the cur­rent report is on the status as at last autumn.

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c) It was quer­ied wheth­er there been any change to graz­ing regimes? The Head of Plan­ning & Com­munit­ies con­firmed that fen­cing to restrict graz­ing was part of the tri­als, but it was not yet clear wheth­er this has had the inten­ded effect. d) A mem­ber asked wheth­er mon­it­or­ing of sites that reached a ​‘green’ status would con­tin­ue. The Head of Plan­ning & Com­munit­ies explained that the SSE meth­od­o­logy as approved as part of the con­sent but that the CNPA were inter­ested in see­ing the res­tor­a­tion of the worst areas. e) It was high­lighted in the SSE report that A9 dualling invest­ig­a­tion works were using sec­tions, and it was quer­ied wheth­er it been cla­ri­fied what areas SSE will con­tin­ue to be respons­ible for and which will be respons­ib­il­ity for A9 pro­ject? The c Head of Plan­ning & Com­munit­ies lari­fied that areas pur­chased for A9 works will be the respons­ib­il­ity of the Scot­tish Min­is­ters and Trans­port Scot­land once trans­ferred. f) It was com­men­ted that last year was a bad year for regen­er­a­tion – this year has had more rain and may see improve­ments. g) A mem­ber informed the com­mit­tee that SSE have a cur­rent pub­lic con­sulta­tion on policy and biod­iversity net gain should any­one wish to read and respond.

1. Action Points arising: None.

Agenda Item 9: Any Oth­er Business

1. A mem­ber asked for inform­a­tion on a pri­or noti­fic­a­tion for tracks on Gaick Estate allowed by High­land Coun­cil. The Head of Plan­ning & Com­munit­ies explained that the CNPA had provided advice to High­land Coun­cil on a pri­or noti­fic­a­tion for the hill tracks earli­er in the year. The CNPA’s response had com­men­ted that the inform­a­tion provided in sup­port of the pri­or noti­fic­a­tion was clear but that in the CNPA’s opin­ion, the pro­pos­als would require a plan­ning applic­a­tion and its approv­al to be author­ised. It was High­land Council’s decision on wheth­er to accept the pri­or noti­fic­a­tion or to ask for fur­ther inform­a­tion and pri­or approv­al, or to require a plan­ning applic­a­tion. In this case, they had accep­ted the pri­or noti­fic­a­tion. The w Head of Plan­ning & Com­munit­ies could fol­low up with High­land Coun­cil officers on their reas­on­ing for this decision.

2. The applic­a­tion 2018/0354/PPP (High­land Coun­cil 18/04217/PIP), Relo­ca­tion of Bal­avil Home Farm due to the dualling of the A9) & con­struc­tion of new farm build­ings, farm­yard, asso­ci­ated utilities/​drainage, land­scape & access road to new farm at Land East of Lyn­o­voan, Lyn­chat, Kin­gussie which was called-in by Scot­tish Min­is­ters on 13 Decem­ber 2018 has now been approved.

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1. The decision notice for applic­a­tion 2018/0140/DET at Broom­hill Quarry, Dul­nain Bridge, Grant­own-on-Spey had been issued fol­low­ing the pay­ment of a res­tor­a­tion bond deposit.

2. The decision notice for applic­a­tion 2018/0151/DET at Land at Carn Dhom­h­nu­ill Bhain, Dal­whin­nie will be issued shortly, fol­low­ing the con­clu­sion of the asso­ci­ated leg­al agreement.

3. An update on the Spit­tal of Glen­shee site was reques­ted. The Head of Plan­ning & Com­munit­ies respon­ded that there was no change to the site and that officers would advise the own­ers of poten­tial funds to sup­port the site’s clear­ance. There were no form­al actions that the CNPA could take that would achieve clear­ance of the site at this time.

4. Action Points arising: None.

Agenda Item 12: Date of Next Meeting

1. Fri­day 13^th Septem­ber 2019 at Com­munity Hall, Nethy Bridge.

2. The pub­lic busi­ness of the meet­ing con­cluded at 11.55am