CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

Form­al Board Paper 2 Annex 1 12 June 2020

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Cairngorms Nation­al Park Green Recov­ery Plan

Intro­duc­tion

The Cairngorms Nation­al Park is the most tour­ism intens­ive eco­nomy in Scot­land. 43% of people are employed in the industry with many more sup­por­ted by the vis­it­or eco­nomy. 2 mil­lion people vis­it the Park each year and the Cov­id-19 pan­dem­ic shows how much the eco­nomy relies on this trade. Nature and land­scape under­pin much of the area’s economy.

The recov­ery is going to take time and dif­fer­ent busi­nesses and com­munit­ies will be affected in dif­fer­ent ways. There is a need to ensure that the CNPA and part­ners sup­port this recov­ery and in doing so con­tin­ue to deliv­er against the Park Plan’s long-term out­comes. There is an oppor­tun­ity to sup­port the recov­ery by mak­ing the right invest­ments for the long term.

Green Recov­ery

A green recov­ery is about ensur­ing that as we rebuild the eco­nomy of the Nation­al Park we do this in a way that also ensures that we pro­tect and replen­ish our nat­ur­al and social cap­it­al. The Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment has set out that the recov­ery needs to deliv­er a fairer, green­er and more equal society.

As we rebuild the eco­nomy and work closely with busi­ness and com­munit­ies we must ensure that this helps us to tackle the cli­mate emer­gency and biod­iversity crisis. These are not sep­ar­ate issues. The sus­tain­able recov­ery of the eco­nomy and espe­cially the tour­ism eco­nomy are key issues and there will not be a quick fix to this.

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This Recov­ery Plan is not about rep­lic­at­ing or duplic­at­ing work ongo­ing at a nation­al level or about sum­mar­ising exist­ing national/​regional schemes. There are many people facing extreme hard­ship as their busi­nesses face an uncer­tain future. This plan and the fund­ing con­tained will help but can­not ameli­or­ate all the issues being faced by busi­nesses or indi­vidu­als. The CNPA will do its best to help where it can and to lever in fund­ing to deliv­er long term eco­nom­ic well-being under­pinned by our nat­ur­al capital.

Stra­tegic Context

The Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment pub­lished ​‘Coronavir­us (COV­ID-19): frame­work for decision mak­ing — Scotland’s route map through and out of the crisis’ on 21 May 2020. This sets the frame­work for the approach that Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment are tak­ing and sets out what people can expect in the phases as Scot­land trans­itions out of lock­down towards exit from the crisis.

At the same time the Scot­tish Tour­ism Emer­gency Response Group has pro­duced a nation­al plan set around 4 themes.

• RESPOND — Imme­di­ate pro­vi­sion of inform­a­tion and sup­port to businesses
• RESET — Sup­port, plan­ning and pre­par­a­tion for restart
• RESTART — Sup­port and guid­ance for safe re-opening
• RECOV­ER — Guid­ance and sup­port for oper­at­ing in a new post COV­ID-19 environment

Loc­al Context

The loc­al con­text for the Cairngorms Recov­ery Plan are the aims of the Nation­al Park and the Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan. The long term out­comes of the Plan are:

• A spe­cial place for people and nature with nat­ur­al and cul­tur­al her­it­age enhanced
• People enjoy­ing the Park through out­stand­ing vis­it­or and learn­ing experiences
• A sus­tain­able eco­nomy sup­port­ing thriv­ing busi­nesses and communities.

These in turn are sup­por­ted by accom­pa­ny­ing strategies, such as, Cairngorms Eco­nom­ic Action Plan, Tour­ism Action Plan, Cairngorms Nature, Act­ive Cairngorms, Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan and Loc­al Devel­op­ment Strategy. The con­tinu­ing fund­ing of many of the CNPA oper­a­tion­al plan pri­or­it­ies will sup­port COV­ID recov­ery (e.g. ranger ser­vice grants, volun­teer cairngorms etc) and we must con­tin­ue to deliv­er across the aims of the Nation­al Park.

This Recov­ery Plan is about look­ing at what areas to accel­er­ate to deliv­er on the long term Park out­comes and boost, in the short-term, employ­ment & sus­tain­able eco­nom­ic activ­ity. This can be done as much through con­ser­va­tion pro­jects (sup­port­ing con­tract­ors in the Park to remove fen­cing, restore peat­land etc), vis­it­or pro­jects (cap­it­al spend on path infra­struc­ture or facil­it­ies) as it can through sup­port for busi­nesses (events, mar­ket­ing etc) and com­munit­ies (spe­cif­ic loc­al projects).

As an example: Sup­port for loc­al nurs­er­ies to sup­ply nat­ive wood­land spe­cies cre­ates loc­al jobs, this in turn helps with the expan­sion of nat­ive wood­land which con­trib­utes to jobs, cli­mate and biod­iversity, this in turn provides a long-term resource that can be har­ves­ted and used cre­at­ing jobs and eco­nom­ic activ­ity and finally using stock of loc­al proven­ance means redu­cing imports with the poten­tial for pests and dis­ease. A green recov­ery is not an addendum to eco­nom­ic activ­ity. It is central.

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CNPA Focus

One of the main focusses of the CNPA will be to con­tin­ue to lever in sig­ni­fic­ant fund­ing on top of the annu­al Grant in Aid fund­ing from Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment to bene­fit the area of the Park and enable recovery.

We will also want to cap­ture and rein­force many of the good examples of part­ner­ship work that have emerged in the last few weeks – for example redu­cing travel dis­tances though hold­ing meet­ing online, speed of decision-mak­ing and stronger part­ner­ship efforts towards place based outcomes.

High level prin­ciples for a resi­li­ent recovery

The prin­ciples set out below are the response from the Com­mit­tee on Cli­mate Change to the let­ter from the Cab­in­et Sec­ret­ary ask­ing for advice on a ​‘green recov­ery for Scotland’.

1. Use cli­mate invest­ments to sup­port the eco­nom­ic recov­ery and jobs.
2. Lead a shift towards pos­it­ive long-term behaviours.
3. Tackle the wider ​‘resi­li­ence defi­cit’ on cli­mate change.
4. Embed fair­ness as a core principle
5. Ensure the recov­ery does not ​‘lock-in’ green­house gas emis­sions or increased cli­mate risk.
6. Strengthen incent­ives to reduce emis­sions when con­sid­er­ing fisc­al changes

The Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment has also set out its approach to transition

• Sup­press the vir­us through com­pli­ance with phys­ic­al dis­tan­cing and hygiene meas­ures, ensur­ing that R0 remains below 1 and that our NHS remains with­in capacity.
• Care for those infec­ted by the virus.
• Sup­port people and organ­isa­tions affected by the crisis.
• Recov­er to a new nor­mal, care­fully eas­ing restric­tions when safe to do so while main­tain­ing neces­sary meas­ures and ensur­ing that trans­mis­sion remains con­trolled, sup­por­ted by devel­op­ments in medi­cine and technology.
• Pro­tect against this and future pan­dem­ics, includ­ing through effect­ive test­ing, con­tact tra­cing and isolation.
• Renew our coun­try, build­ing a fairer and more sus­tain­able eco­nomy and society.

Aim of Plan

The aim of this plan is to help the eco­nom­ic recov­ery of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park and ensure this is done in a way that bene­fits loc­al com­munit­ies & busi­nesses, is inclus­ive and deliv­ers on the cli­mate emer­gency & biod­iversity crisis. The Plan will change as fur­ther inform­a­tion on Recov­ery emerges and will look to tie in with the devel­op­ment of nation­al recov­ery plans in due course.

The think­ing in this plan will also feed into the devel­op­ment of the next NPPP 2022 – 2027.

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Cairngorms Recov­ery Plan

This plan con­tains spe­cif­ic sec­tions set­ting out the approach to recov­ery with­in the Nation­al Park. As part of that the CNPA, in con­junc­tion with the Cairngorms Trust, is devel­op­ing a Cairngorms Recov­ery Fund that will be avail­able to sup­port ini­ti­at­ives and ideas across the dif­fer­ent areas of work.

Action	Lead	Key Part­ners	Times­cale	Resources	Object­ive	Theme	CNP Plan / Strategy
Cairngorms Recov­ery Fund to be developed	Grant Moir	Cairngorms Trust, CBP, VABS, MAP	Sept 2020 – March 2021	CNPA £100k + staff resource Cairngorms Trust £30k	To provide a loc­al fund to sup­port busi­ness and com­munity activ­ity to help the recov­ery. Embed fair­ness as key principle	Restart, Recov­er	Eco­nom­ic Action Plan, Loc­al Devel­op­ment Strategy, Cairngorms Nature

Busi­ness

There has been sig­ni­fic­ant schemes put in place by the UK Govt & Scot­tish Govt (and admin­istered loc­ally by loc­al author­it­ies and enter­prise agen­cies) to help busi­nesses and indi­vidu­als. The main issue for the Nation­al Park is to ensure that schemes are not with­drawn too soon for busi­nesses to sup­port them­selves or this will lead to busi­nesses enter­ing admin­is­tra­tion and increas­ing unem­ploy­ment later in the year. This trans­ition is espe­cially acute in the travel and tour­ism sec­tor as it may take time for vis­it­ors to come back and there will be issues about attract­ing staff and reopen­ing vis­it­or facil­it­ies. Cash­flow and fin­an­cial cap­it­al will be a key issue for all businesses.

Seni­or Respons­ible Officer – Mur­ray Ferguson

Action	Lead	Key Part­ners	Times­cale	Resources	Object­ive	Theme	CNP Plan / Strategy
Sup­port Cairngorms Tour­ism Emer­gency Response Group	Mur­ray Ferguson	CBP, LA’s, Vis­it­Ab­er­deen­shire, Moray/​Speyside, HIE, VisitScotland	Ongo­ing	Staff resource	To provide clear and con­sist­ent lead­er­ship and ensure key Cairngorms issues are being discussed.	Respond, Reset	Tour­ism Action Plan

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Action	Lead	Key Part­ners	Times­cale	Resources	Object­ive	Theme	CNP Plan / Strategy
Attend Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment Rur­al Eco­nomy Stake­hold­er Group,	Dav­id Cameron	n/​a	Ongo­ing	Staff Resource	To feed into inform­a­tion to SG on key issues affect­ing the Park and to cov­er LEAD­ER issues on behalf of the network	Respond, Reset	Eco­nom­ic Action Plan, Loc­al Devel­op­ment Strategy,
CNPA to sup­port Cairngorms Busi­ness Part­ner­ship through grant funding.	Mur­ray Ferguson	CBP	Ongo­ing	CNPA £25k + staff resource	To pro­mote busi­ness col­lab­or­a­tion and communication	Respond, Reset, Restart, Recov­er	Eco­nom­ic Action Plan
Vis­it­or & res­id­ent mar­ket­ing to be developed at appro­pri­ate time as lock­down meas­ures ease	Heath­er Trench	CBP, Vis­itScot­land, Vis­it­Ab­er­deen­shire, Moray/​Speyside, CNPA	Ongo­ing	Staff resource	Tie in with CBP, Vis­it Aber­deen­shire & Vis­itScot­land To sup­port the recov­er­ing tour­ism mar­ket and to attract closer at home vis­it­ors at appro­pri­ate time	Restart, Recov­er	Tour­ism Action Plan
Devel­op Grow­biz ​‘Smart Vil­lages’ to enhance digit­al con­nectiv­ity and busi­ness resi­li­ence post Covid.	Mur­ray Ferguson	Grow­biz, CBP, LA’s, Com­munit­ies, HIE, SE	Sum­mer 2020 onwards	CNPA £15k + staff resources	To sup­port busi­ness and com­munity resilience	Restart, Recov­er	Eco­nom­ic Action Plan
Deliv­er a com­pre­hens­ive plan­ning ser­vice to enable recovery	Gav­in Miles	LA’s	Ongo­ing	Staff resources	Under­pins eco­nom­ic recovery	Restart, Recov­er	Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan
Seek resources to research, invest­ig­ate and plan for how we	Mur­ray Ferguson	CBP, LA’s, HIE, SE, SG	Autumn 2020	Staff resources	To devel­op new approach to economic	Recov­er	Eco­nom­ic Action Plan

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Com­munit­ies — The com­munit­ies in the Park have been at the fore­front of ensur­ing resi­li­ence and sup­port­ing the front­line ser­vices. They have had access to resi­li­ence fund­ing through loc­al author­it­ies & HIE/SE fund­ing. The CNPA has sup­por­ted in the back­ground and provided sup­port where it adds value.

Seni­or Respons­ible Officer – Mur­ray Ferguson

Action	Lead	Key Part­ners	Times­cale	Resources	Object­ive	Theme	CNP Plan / Strategy
CNPA to sup­port VABS, Marr Area Part­ner­ship & T&G Devel­op­ment Trust through Grant in Aid funding	Liz Hende­r­son	VABS, Marr Area Part­ner­ship, T&G Com­munity Trust, CBP	Ongo­ing	CNPA £60k (ongo­ing com­mit­ment) + staff resources	Ensure that pro­fes­sion­al capa­city to keep sup­port­ing com­munity and volun­teer effort is in place	Respond, Reset, Restart, Recov­er	Loc­al Devel­op­ment Strategy
Devel­op a new approach to com­munity engage­ment (e.g. citizen’s assembly) at Nation­al Park level to build on the work undertaken	Mur­ray Ferguson	VABS, MAP, Com­munity Coun­cils, Trust AoCC, CBP, Cairngorms Youth Action Team	Autumn 2020	CNPA £10k + Staff resource	To ensure an effect­ive col­lab­or­a­tion across com­munit­ies with­in the Nation­al Park and provide resi­li­ence for the future.	Recov­er	Loc­al Devel­op­ment Strategy

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Fund­ing Bids in Pro­gress						Theme	CNP Plan / Strategy
Cairngorms Dark Skies Obser­vat­ory Project	Crown Estate Scotland	T&GLP, T&GTrust, CNPA, HIE, Moray Coun­cil, CBP, Dark Skies Group,	Com­ple­tion by June 2022	CNPA — £40k + staff resource £1.3m SNH ERDF Fund­ing secured sub­ject to con­di­tions. £560k match fund­ing required.	Build on suc­cess of T&GLP and gen­er­ate a long term tour­ism draw to the area through pro­mo­tion of dark skies	Restart Recov­er	Tour­ism
Request fund­ing from Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment for LEAD­ER net­work to sup­port com­munity and busi­ness development.		Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment, Cairngorms Trust	Sum­mer 2020	Staff resource	An estab­lished mech­an­ism that could be used to sup­port medi­um term com­munity devel­op­ment projects	Recov­er	Eco­nom­ic Action Plan, Loc­al Devel­op­ment Strategy

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Land Man­age­ment, Cli­mate Change and Conservation

A sig­ni­fic­ant num­ber of estates will have seen income decrease from sport­ing activ­ity and from accom­mod­a­tion offer­ings. This may impact on their abil­ity to fund con­ser­va­tion and vis­it­or man­age­ment work etc. There will be a need to sup­port estates and oth­ers with rel­ev­ant fund­ing to deliv­er cli­mate and biod­iversity out­comes that also sup­port eco­nom­ic actvity.

Seni­or Respons­ible Officer – Pete Mayhew

Action	Lead	Key Part­ners	Times­cale	Resources	Object­ive	Theme	CNP Plan / Strategy
Sup­port wood­land expan­sion & peat­land res­tor­a­tion work in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park	Will Boyd Wallis	Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment, SNH, SF, landowners	Ongo­ing	SG fund­ing + CNPA staff resources SF fund­ing + CNPA staff resources	Cli­mate change object­ives being met that also sup­port con­tract­ors and eco­nom­ic activity	Respond, Reset, Restart, Recov­er	Cairngorms Nature
Biod­iversity Chal­lenge Fund delivery.	Andy Ford	SNH, SG	Ongo­ing to March 2021	SNH £120k + CNPA staff resources	To provide employ­ment for land man­age­ment and eco­lo­gic­al fieldwork	Reset, recov­er	Cairngorms Nature
Catch­ment Man­age­ment & river res­tor­a­tion delivery	Will Boyd Wallis	Spey Catch­ment Ini­ti­at­ive, River Dee Trust	Jan – Dec 2021	CNPA £42k + staff resources	Pro­mo­tion of nat­ur­al flood man­age­ment, ripari­an wood­land and fish­ing related tourism	Restart Recov­er	Cairngorms Nature, Eco­nom­ic Action Plan
Stage 2 of Caper­cail­lie Pro­ject sub­mit­ted to NLHF		SNH, RSPB, NLHF, com­munity groups, land managers	June 2020 – May 2023	NLHF — £2.907m total pro­ject funding.	To provide employ­ment for land man­age­ment and eco­lo­gic­al field­work. To sup­port tour­ism eco­nomy and visitor	Reset, Restart, Recov­er	Cairngorms Nature, Cairngorms Eco­nom­ic Action Plan

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Vis­it­or Management

The way that the coun­tryside reopens and the facil­it­ies that will need to be open to man­age this will be a key issue. How the coun­tryside oper­ates in the light of ongo­ing phys­ic­al dis­tan­cing guidelines and the require­ments of staff work­ing in these cir­cum­stances will be key.

Seni­or Respons­ible Officer – Pete Mayhew

Action	Lead	Key Part­ners	Times­cale	Resources	Object­ive	Theme	CNP Plan / Strategy
Devel­op an eas­ing of lock­down vis­it­or man­age­ment plan for the Cairngorms	Pete Crane	Landown­ers, CBP, FLS, NGO’s, SNH, Com­munit­ies, LA’s, Police Scot­land, CBP	June 2020	CNPA £20k + staff resources	To ensure that we have a com­pre­hens­ive plan for the Cairngorms as the coun­tryside reopens	Reset, Restart, Recov­er	Act­ive Cairngorms, Tour­ism Action Plan
Devel­op eas­ing of lock­down comms strategy as part of wider vis­it­or man­age­ment plan	Fran­coise V Buuren	CBP, Vis­it­Aber, Moray/​Speyside, VisitScotland	Ongo­ing	Staff resources	To ensure clear and con­sist­ent messaging	Respond, Reset, Recov­er	As above

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Action	Lead	Key Part­ners	Times­cale	Resources	Object­ive	Theme	CNP Plan / Strategy
Sup­port vis­it­or man­age­ment through the devel­op­ment of CNPA sea­son­al ranger ser­vice & exist­ing ranger ser­vices through grant support	Pete Crane	Land man­agers and exist­ing ranger services	June 2020	CNPA Sea­son­al Rangers £126k + staff resources CNPA Ranger Grants — £120k + staff resources	To ensure that we have the resources on the ground to match the poten­tial demand for access to the coun­tryside and ensure social dis­tan­cing guidelines are followed.	Reset, Restart, Recov­er	Act­ive Cairngorms
Cap­it­al­ise on the increase in phys­ic­al activ­ity, engage­ment with nature, increase in loc­al food net­works & volun­teer­ing that has been seen in lock­down to encour­age long-term beha­viour change that bene­fits cli­mate change, biod­iversity, loc­al economy	Fran­coise VB	All CNP part­ner­ships Cairngorms Youth Action Team	Ongo­ing	Staff resource & link to HH bid & recov­ery fund	To ensure that any pos­it­ive beha­vi­our­al change from lock­down is main­tained and built upon	Respond, Reset, Restart, Recov­er	Cairngorms Nature, Act­ive Cairngorms, Eco­nom­ic Action Plan.
Rur­al Trans­port in Cairngorms and Kilkenny (TICK)	Dav­id Cameron	CNPA, Hitrans, THC etc	Invest May 2020 to March 2021, deliv­ery ongo­ing thereafter	LEAD­ER — £350k plus staff sup­port to pro­ject steer­ing group	Pro­mote beha­viour change to use of zero emis­sion and act­ive travel meth­ods by res­id­ents and vis­it­ors; pro­mote pub­lic and com­munity trans­port through invest­ment and integ­rated trans­port information	Restart, Recov­er	Act­ive Cairngorms, Eco­nom­ic Action Plan

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Cap­it­al Investment

There is likely to be a sig­ni­fic­ant eco­nom­ic hit on the loc­al eco­nomy and the private sec­tor is unlikely to have funds for sig­ni­fic­ant invest­ment over the next 18 months. The CNPA will look to work with part­ners and SG to identi­fy poten­tial shovel ready pro­jects for cap­it­al fund­ing that cre­ate loc­al employ­ment and deliv­er sig­ni­fic­ant value to achiev­ing the 2030 and 2045 cli­mate change tar­gets. Fund­ing is not in place for any of the pro­jects below and will need to be identified.

Seni­or Respons­ible Officer – Dav­id Cameron

Title	Estim­ated Cost	Lead Body & CNPA key con­tact	Times­cale	Per­mis­sions	Part­ners	What would this support?
Shovel Ready (can hap­pen in f/​y 2020⁄21)
Glen­more NMU path exten­sion to enhance RTIF funding.	£150k	FLS	Start Summer/​Autumn 2020	Per­mis­sions in place	FLS, THC	Tour­ism eco­nomy, con­tract­or jobs, act­ive travel
Deeside Way Exten­sion – Brae­mar to Inver­cauld Bridge	£350k	CNPA	Start March 2021	Plan­ning per­mis­sion in place. Landown­er agree­ment needed	Brae­mar CC, Estates	Con­tract­or jobs, tour­ism eco­nomy, act­ive travel

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					Part­ners	What would this support?
ECMP wil­low and juni­per exclosures	£35k	CNPA	Sept 2020 – March 2021	Landown­er per­mis­sion in place.	ECMP estates	Con­tract­or jobs, biod­iversity, cli­mate change
Com­munity Con­ser­va­tion Grant Scheme	£50k	Jos Mil­ner	Sept 2020 – March 2022	Landown­er per­mis­sions would be required	Cairngorms Nature partnership	Sup­ports loc­al com­munity ini­ti­at­ives aimed at join­ing people and nature.
Medi­um Term (can poten­tially hap­pen in 2021⁄22)
Cairngorms Nature Big Weekend	£40k	CNPA	May 2021	None needed	Cairngorms Nature partnership	Tour­ism eco­nomy, loc­al busi­nesses, biodiversity
Spey­side Way – Boat to Aviemore resur­fa­cing & traffic lights on Kin­gussie Bridge	£200k	CNPA	TBC	Per­mis­sions would be needed.	High­land Coun­cil, Loc­al Com­munity Councils	Tour­ism eco­nomy, con­tract­or jobs, act­ive travel
Dul­nain to Grant­own NMU	£400k	Dul­nain CC	TBC	Landown­ers and plan­ning per­mis­sion needed	Sus­trans, CNPA	Tour­ism eco­nomy, con­tract­or jobs, act­ive travel
Strath­spey Ripari­an Plant­ing – river Truim	£50k	Spey Catch­ment Initiative	TBC	Landown­er per­mis­sion needed	Part­ners through Spey Catch­ment Initiative	Con­tract­or jobs, sal­mon fish­ing, biod­iversity, cli­mate change
Strath­spey River Restoration	£200k	Spey Catch­ment Initiative	TBC	Landown­er per­mis­sions, High­land Coun­cil per­mis­sions, plan­ning (bridge)	Through SCI	Con­tract­or jobs, sal­mon fish­ing, biod­iversity, cli­mate change

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					Part­ners	What would this support?
Nethy/​Spey Con­flu­ence Project	£300k	CNPA	TBC	Landown­er per­mis­sion, SEPA per­mis­sion, High­land Council	SEPA, SNH, Nethy Com­munity Council	Con­tract­or jobs, reduce flood­ing, biod­iversity, cli­mate change
Aviemore Street Fur­niture and Inter­pret­a­tion project	£100k	CNPA	TBC	Plan­ning per­mis­sion needed	A&VCC, TICK	Tour­ism economy,
Motorhome dis­charge facil­it­ies at pub­lic toilets	£300k	CNPA/LA’s	TBC	Plan­ning per­mis­sion and SEPA/​Scottish Water needed	Com­munity Coun­cils, LA’s, Devel­op­ment Trusts	Tour­ism eco­nomy, Con­tract­or jobs
Badenoch vis­it­or inform­a­tion enhancement	100k	CNPA	TBC	Plan­ning per­mis­sion at key sites includ­ing Ralia to build on Badenoch pro­ject needed	Badenoch Pro­ject partners	Tour­ism Eco­nomy. Vis­it­ors to quieter areas of Park off A9
Longer Term (2022 onwards)
Rails to Grantown	£5million (approx.)	Strath­spey SRC	TBC	TAWS orders, plan­ning per­mis­sion, landown­er per­mis­sion all required	HIE, LA	Tour­ism eco­nomy, Con­tract­or jobs, cli­mate change
Cairngorm Moun­tain masterplan	TBC	HIE	TBC	Plan­ning per­mis­sion for funicu­lar repair gran­ted. Mas­ter­plan due in Sum­mer 2020.	Funicu­lar Response Group members	Tour­ism eco­nomy, Con­tract­or jobs
High­land Folk Park enhancements	£1M	High­life Highland	TBC	Plan­ning per­mis­sion required	HIE, THC, CNPA	To devel­op open air attrac­tion suit­able for phys­ic­al dis­tan­cing and open all year

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Imple­ment­a­tion & Governance

Gov­ernance of the Cairngorms Green Recov­ery Plan

• This doc­u­ment will have to change as cir­cum­stances change. The CNPA Board will receive a quarterly update paper at its board meet­ings on the over­all deliv­ery of the plan and any oper­a­tion­al issues that need input will be taken to the Fin­ance and Deliv­ery Com­mit­tee. If there are any sig­ni­fic­ant changes to the Plan these will be high­lighted in the quarterly board report and agree­ment sought at this point.
• The CNPA Man­age­ment Team will be stand­ing Pro­gramme Board for exec­ut­ive man­age­ment of the recov­ery programme;

Gov­ernance of the Cairngorms Recov­ery Fund

• It is pro­posed that a pan­el over­sees the decisions asso­ci­ated with the Cairngorms Recov­ery Fund. This would include a rep­res­ent­at­ive from Cairngorms Trust, CBP, VABS, MAP, CNSG and a board mem­ber and staff mem­ber from CNPA. CNPA board mem­ber to chair.
• The fund and how it oper­ates will be developed in June and will be taken to Fin­ance & Deliv­ery Com­mit­tee in August for final agreement.

Com­mu­nic­a­tions

• A com­mu­nic­a­tion plan for the work in this recov­ery plan is being developed.

Part­ner­ships

• CNPA will work closely with part­ners through exist­ing effect­ive struc­tures rather than devel­op­ing new pro­cesses to ensure con­tinu­ity of joint work­ing through recov­ery into ongo­ing NPPP deliv­ery. This will focus ini­tially on the:
  • Cairngorms Tour­ism Partnership
  • Eco­nom­ic Action Plan Group
  • Cairngorms Nature Strategy Group
  • Cairngorms Upland Advis­ory Group
  • Access For­um
  • Com­munity Networks

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Gloss­ary

• AC — Aber­deen­shire Council
• AoCC – Asso­ci­ation of Cairngorms Communities
• CBP — Cairngorms Busi­ness Partnership
• CNAG — Cairngorms Nature Strategy Group
• CNPA — Cairngorms Nation­al Park Authority
• FLS — Forest and Land Scotland
• LA’s – Loc­al Author­it­ies (Moray, Angus, Perth & Kinross, Aber­deen­shire, Highland)
• MAP – Marr Area Partnership
• NGO’s – Non Gov­ern­ment Organ­isa­tions (e.g. RSPB, NTS etc)
• NLHF – Nation­al Lot­tery Her­it­age Fund
• SE — Scot­tish Enterprise
• SNH — Scot­tish Nat­ur­al Heritage
• SF — Scot­tish Forestry
• THC – The High­land Council
• VABS — Vol­un­tary Action Badenoch & Strathspey

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