CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

DRAFT MINUTES OF THE BOARD MEETING

held via LifeS­ize Video Con­fer­en­cing on Fri­day 26^th March 2021 at 9.30am

PRESENT

(By video con­fer­en­cing unless stated otherwise)

Xan­der McDade (Con­vener) Car­o­lyn Cad­dick (Deputy Con­vener) Peter Argyle Deirdre Fal­con­er Pippa Had­ley John Kirk John Lath­am (by phone) Douglas McAdam Elean­or Mackintosh

Wil­lie McK­enna lan McLar­en Dr Fiona McLean Wil­li­am Mun­ro Anne Rae Mac­don­ald Dr Gaen­er Rodger Derek Ross Judith Webb

In Attend­ance:

Grant Moir, Chief Exec­ut­ive Dav­id Camer­on, Dir­ect­or of Cor­por­ate Ser­vices Mur­ray Fer­guson, Dir­ect­or of Plan­ning and Rur­al Devel­op­ment Gav­in Miles, Head of Plan­ning and Com­munit­ies Dan Har­ris, Plan­ning Man­ager Vicky Walk­er, Office Ser­vices Man­ager Dee Straw, Plan­ning Admin­is­trat­or Nina Caudrey, Plan­ning Officer Roslyn Mac­Don­ald, Harp­er Macleod Peter Fer­guson, Harp­er Macleod

Apo­lo­gies:

Geva Black­ett Janet Hunter

Wel­come and Introduction

1. Xan­der McDade, the Con­vener, wel­comed every­one to the meeting.

Approv­al of Pre­vi­ous Minutes

1. There were no minutes due to be approved at today’s meet­ing. Minutes from Board meet­ing held on 12^th March 2021 would be approved at the next full board meet­ing on 11^th June 2021.

Declar­a­tions of Interest

1. Xan­der McDade declared that he had respon­ded to the con­sulta­tion on the LDP as a coun­cil­lor of High­land Perthshire.

Adop­tion of Loc­al Plan (Paper 1)

1. Dan Har­ris, Plan­ning Man­ager and Gav­in Miles, Head of Plan­ning and Com­munit­ies presen­ted Paper I, Adop­tion of Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan which sought the Board’s approv­al to adopt the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan as amended. Once adop­ted, the LDP will replace LDP 2015 and will be the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan for 5 years from 2021 to 2026.

2. On 13 Novem­ber 2020 the CNPA Board approved the modi­fic­a­tions to the pro­posed LDP and the pub­lic­a­tion of the Notice of Inten­tion to Adopt the Plan.

3. On 2 Feb­ru­ary 2021 the CNPA received notice of a Dir­ec­tion from Scot­tish Min­is­ters under Sec­tion 20 (5) of the Town and Coun­try Plan­ning (Scot­land) Act 1997. The dir­ec­tion is to amend the Pro­posed LDP (as mod­i­fied) so that the set­tle­ment state­ments for Aviemore, Kin­gussie, New­ton­more, Blair Atholl, Carr-Bridge, Bru­ar and Pit­agow­an, Calv­ine, Dal­whin­nie and Kil­liecrankie con­tain the line with­in their set­tle­ment object­ives: ​“Please con­sult the Trans­port Scot­land web­site for the latest A9 dualling route inform­a­tion. This can be accessed via; A9 Dualling Perth to Inverness (transport.gov.scot).”

4. The CNPA can­not adopt the Plan unless the dir­ec­tion is fol­lowed or Min­is­ters with­draw it.

5. The Board con­sidered the detail in the Paper and dis­cus­sions took place around the following:

   • a) It was con­firmed that the changes made through the Min­is­ters’ dir­ec­tion do not affect the con­clu­sions reached by the CNPA in its Hab­it­ats Reg­u­la­tions Apprais­al (HRA) or the Stra­tegic Envir­on­ment­al Assess­ment (SEA) as out­lined in para­graph 6 of the Board report.

6. b) Xan­der McDade, Car­o­lyn Cad­dick and Peter Argyle all thanked the team involved for a fant­ast­ic and thor­ough piece of work.

7. The Board adop­ted the pro­posed LDP as mod­i­fied and dir­ec­ted by Scot­tish ministers.

Action Point Arising:

1. i. Plan­ning Com­mit­tee to be sup­plied with a hard copy of the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan as adop­ted when available.

AOCB

1. The Board raised no items under Oth­er Com­pet­ent Business:

Date of Next Meeting

1. Next form­al Board meet­ing to be held on 11^th June 2021 via Lifes­ize Video Conferencing.

2. The meet­ing con­cluded at 09:45.