201113CNPABdPaper1Annex1LDP 2020 Optimized Part 1

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Pro­posed Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan

Con­tents

1. Intro­duc­tion
   • Intro­duc­tion to the Pro­posed Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan
   • How to use the Plan
   • Approach to plan­ning in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park
   • Links to oth­er strategies
2. Vis­ion
3. Spa­tial strategy
4. Policies
   • Over­view
   • Rela­tion­ship with the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan
   • Policy 1: New hous­ing development
   • Policy 2: Sup­port­ing eco­nom­ic growth
   • Policy 3: Design and placemaking
   • Policy 4: Nat­ur­al heritage
   • Policy 5: Landscape
   • Policy 6: The sit­ing and design of digit­al com­mu­nic­a­tions equipment
   • Policy 7: Renew­able energy
   • Policy 8: Open space, sport and recreation
   • Policy 9: Cul­tur­al heritage
   • Policy 10: Resources
   • Policy 11: Developer obligations
5. Com­munity information
   • Over­view
   • Site alloc­a­tions
   • Envir­on­ment­al considerations
   • Oth­er considerations
   • Maps and legend
   • Set­tle­ment contents

Appendix I: Hous­ing alloc­a­tions and hous­ing land supply

Appendix 2: Sched­ule of land ownership

Gloss­ary

1. Intro­duc­tion

• 1.1: The Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan for the Cairngorms Nation­al Park is the main doc­u­ment which will influ­ence future built devel­op­ment in the Nation­al Park.

• 1.2: The plan­ning sys­tem is all about guid­ing new devel­op­ment – mak­ing sure we have enough land for devel­op­ment in the most appro­pri­ate loc­a­tions. This helps us to meet our needs for hous­ing, jobs and ser­vices at the same time as pro­tect­ing and enhan­cing our environment.

• 1.3: The plan­ning sys­tem in Scot­land is ​‘plan-led’. This means we must pre­pare a Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan set­ting out a strategy for future devel­op­ment. The Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan must include sites and pro­pos­als for devel­op­ment as well as the policies that are used to make decisions on applic­a­tions for plan­ning permission.

• 1.4: The Plan focuses on the five-year peri­od until 2025. How­ever, it also includes devel­op­ment pro­pos­als for the 10-year peri­od until 2030, as well as provid­ing a gen­er­al indic­a­tion of the likely scale and loc­a­tion of devel­op­ment as far as 20 years into the future.

• 1.5: The Plan focuses on built devel­op­ment and is one of a range of plans and strategies that helps us man­age the devel­op­ment and use of land to deliv­er the four stat­utory aims of Scot­tish Nation­al Parks. These aims are:

  • to con­serve and enhance the nat­ur­al and cul­tur­al her­it­age of the area;
  • to pro­mote sus­tain­able use of the nat­ur­al resources of the area;
  • to pro­mote under­stand­ing and enjoy­ment of the spe­cial qual­it­ies of the area by the pub­lic; and
  • to pro­mote sus­tain­able eco­nom­ic and social devel­op­ment of the area’s communities.

• 1.6: The Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity (CNPA) must work to deliv­er these aims col­lect­ively. How­ever, if when car­ry­ing out any of our func­tions it appears to us that there is a con­flict between the first aim and any of the oth­ers, we must give great­er weight to the first aim. This is a sus­tain­able devel­op­ment approach in which con­ser­va­tion of the nat­ur­al and cul­tur­al her­it­age under­pins the eco­nom­ic and recre­ation­al value of the Nation­al Park.

• 1.7 — 1.13: Details on how to use the plan, includ­ing descrip­tions of dif­fer­ent policy types and the assess­ment of plan­ning applications.

• 1.14 — 1.16: Explains the part­ner­ship approach to plan­ning in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park, involving the CNPA and five rel­ev­ant loc­al authorities.

2. Vis­ion

• The Plan shares the long-term vis­ion for the Cairngorms Nation­al Park that is set out in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan: ​“An out­stand­ing Nation­al Park, enjoyed and val­ued by every­one, where nature and people thrive together.”

• The Part­ner­ship Plan also sets out the fol­low­ing long-term out­comes for the Nation­al Park:

  • Con­ser­va­tion – a spe­cial place for people and nature with nat­ur­al and cul­tur­al her­it­age enhanced.
  • Vis­it­or exper­i­ence – people enjoy­ing the Park through out­stand­ing vis­it­or and learn­ing experiences.
  • Rur­al devel­op­ment – a sus­tain­able eco­nomy sup­port­ing thriv­ing busi­nesses and communities.

3. Spa­tial Strategy

This sec­tion details the net­work of roads and rail lines link­ing set­tle­ments with­in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park, and dis­cusses the dualling of the A9 and upgrades to the High­land Main Line, as well as the oppor­tun­it­ies for devel­op­ment with­in and around exist­ing set­tle­ments, includ­ing the cre­ation of a new set­tle­ment at An Camas Mòr. The strategy emphas­izes sus­tain­able devel­op­ment and pri­or­it­izes exist­ing settlements.

4. Policies

This sec­tion out­lines the policies that will be used in mak­ing decisions on plan­ning applic­a­tions. Each policy addresses spe­cif­ic aspects of devel­op­ment with­in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park. The policies are linked to the pri­or­it­ies of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan.

5. Com­munity Information

This sec­tion provides spe­cif­ic inform­a­tion for each of the defined set­tle­ments with­in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park. It details site alloc­a­tions for hous­ing, eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment, tour­ism, com­munity use, and pro­tec­ted open space, along­side envir­on­ment­al con­sid­er­a­tions and oth­er rel­ev­ant factors for each set­tle­ment. Maps are provided to illus­trate site alloc­a­tions. Indi­vidu­al set­tle­ment sec­tions fol­low and provide details on set­tle­ment object­ives, developer oblig­a­tions and devel­op­ment proposals.

(Note: Due to the length of the doc­u­ment, only the table of con­tents and a sum­mary of the intro­duc­tion and main sec­tions have been provided. The OCR text provides the full details of each sec­tion and sub-section.)