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DRAFT COM­MIT­TEE MINUTES

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

DRAFT MINUTES OF THE PLAN­NING COM­MIT­TEE held via Video Con­fer­ence on 28 Janu­ary 2022 at 9.30am

Mem­bers Present:

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

In Attend­ance:

Gav­in Miles, Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning Mur­ray Fer­guson, Dir­ect­or of Plan­ning & Rur­al Devel­op­ment Emma Bryce, Plan­ning Officer, Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment Stephanie Wade, Plan­ning Officer, Devel­op­ment Plan­ning Alan Atkins, Plan­ning Officer, Devel­op­ment Plan­ning Peter Fer­guson, Harp­er McLeod LLP

Apo­lo­gies: Janet Hunter

Agenda Items I & 2: Wel­come & Apologies

1. The Con­vener wel­comed all present and apo­lo­gies were noted.

Agenda Item 3: Declar­a­tion of Interest by Mem­bers on Items Appear­ing on the Agenda

1. There were no interests declared.

Minutes & Mat­ters Arising from the Pre­vi­ous Meeting

1. The minutes of the pre­vi­ous meet­ing, 10 Decem­ber 2021, held video con­fer­en­cing were approved with the fol­low­ing amendments:
   • At Para 10: The Agent, Soph­ie Row­land did briefly address the Com­mit­tee and then the Com­mit­tee were invited to ask ques­tions of them, the minutes to be updated to reflect this.

• At Para 37: Word­ing to be changed to read ​‘The Agent, Etienne Murphy was present but did not wish to address the Committee.’
• At Para 42c): ​‘Zander’ to be replaced with Xander.
• At Para 44): the first ​‘And’ to be replaced with ​‘a’.
  1. The Con­vener provided an update on the actions arising from the minutes of 10 Decem­ber 2021: a) At Para 17i): In hand – Site Vis­it to Kil­liehuntly applic­a­tion 2020/0220/DET would be tak­ing place this after­noon. Will be determ­ined at Feb­ru­ary Com­mit­tee meet­ing. b) At Para 24i): In hand – Site vis­it to Kil­liehunty applic­a­tion 2020/02221/DET would be tak­ing place this after­noon. Will be determ­ined at Feb­ru­ary Com­mit­tee meeting.

1. Action Points arising: None.

2. There were no mat­ters arising.

Agenda Item 5: Detailed Plan­ning Per­mis­sion 2021/0167/DET Exten­sion of hol­i­day park to form 36 new pitches, erec­tion of two amen­ity blocks, and recon­fig­ur­a­tion to provide an addi­tion­al 49 park­ing spaces At Dalraddy Cara­van Park Aviemore High­land PH22 IQB. Recom­mend­a­tion: Approve Sub­ject to Conditions

1. Alan Atkins, Plan­ning Officer presen­ted the paper to the Committee.

2. The Com­mit­tee were invited to ask points of clar­ity, the fol­low­ing point was raised: a) With ref­er­ence to the sus­pens­ive con­di­tions, was the con­di­tion around the need to provide sur­veys for pro­tec­ted spe­cies and breed­ing birds neces­sary, giv­en that this could come at a cost for the Applic­ant? Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning explained this was a neces­sary con­di­tion giv­en that dis­turb­ance of the spe­cies would be a crime. The work shouldn’t be oner­ous and also gives the developer com­fort that they are not com­mit­ting a crim­in­al offence.

3. The Com­mit­tee were invited to dis­cuss the report, the fol­low­ing points were raised: a) Com­ment made that it was a very good pro­pos­al which the area needs. b) Recog­ni­tion that this was an estab­lished and reput­able cara­van park. c) Com­ment made that this devel­op­ment would provide more tour­ism accom­mod­a­tion which was needed in this part of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park.

4. The Com­mit­tee agreed these applic­a­tions as per the con­di­tions stated in the report.

5. Action Point arising: None.

Agenda Item 6: Detailed Plan­ning Per­mis­sion 2021/0355/DET Change of house types on Plots 21 – 24, relo­ca­tion of house on plot 20 and change of bound­ary line between plots 19 and 20 form­ing part of (05/306/CP) Land 105M NW of |||A Grampi­an Road, Aviemore Recom­mend­a­tion: Approve Sub­ject to Con­di­tions and Developer Contributions

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

2. The Com­mit­tee were invited to ask points of clar­ity, the fol­low­ing points were raised: a) Reas­sur­ance sought that the orbit­al foot­path would be retained. Plan­ning Officer con­firmed that this was the case. b) Obser­va­tion made on what was ori­gin­ally approved, and if it was approved now 45% afford­able hous­ing would be required was there any scope for re- nego­ti­at­ing that giv­en that we have new Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan (LDP). Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning explained that as con­sent had been giv­en some time before the cur­rent LDP was approved, they did not feel it would be appro­pri­ate to re- negotiate.

3. The Com­mit­tee were invited to dis­cuss the report, the fol­low­ing points were raised: a) Com­ment made that it was dis­ap­point­ing to be los­ing two sets of 2 bed semis for big­ger houses which would be more expens­ive and loc­al people would be unlikely to afford to buy. b) Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning explained that applic­a­tion covered 4 units with­in the large site of 140 units, with the afford­able hous­ing ele­ment already hav­ing been built. The sale price of units on the site was already well pub­lished and clearly bey­ond many people work­ing in the area for all the sizes of units avail­able. Giv­en that the site was approved as one whole site, officers didn’t con­sider that a change from two bed to three bed of a small num­ber of units would make a mean­ing­ful dif­fer­ence to loc­al afford­ab­il­ity. The new policy on afford­able hous­ing num­bers was inten­ded to apply to new devel­op­ments rather where developers could factor in the costs to their plans in advance. c) Com­ment made that a recent Cairngorms Busi­ness Part­ner­ship hous­ing con­fer­ence it was noted that not just afford­able hous­ing but all types of hous­ing was needed.

4. The Com­mit­tee agreed this applic­a­tion as per the con­di­tion stated in the report and pay­ment of the developer contribution.

5. Action Point arising: None.

Agenda Item 7: AOB

1. Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning reminded Mem­bers that the site vis­it to Kil­liehuntly would begin at 2pm that after­noon. He noted that details could be found on the web­site and had been sent to Members.

2. Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning advised that the High­land Council’s Con­sulta­tion on Short- Term Let con­trol in the Badenoch & Strath­spey area would begin on Monday 31^st Janu­ary 2022. A paper would be brought to mem­bers at their next meet­ing (25^th Feb­ru­ary 2022).

3. Request made for the Com­mit­tee to have an oppor­tun­ity to dis­cuss Afford­able hous­ing, not being a com­plete tie in with what vil­lage state­ments say and what is hap­pen­ing on the ground. Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning took this on board and agreed to put some thought as to when would be the most appro­pri­ate time for this.

4. Clar­ity sought on the status of this after­noon vis­it. Could it be con­firmed that it was vol­un­tary, where some mem­bers felt they needed to see the site to enable them to make a determ­in­a­tion, where­as those who had been happy to make a determ­in­a­tion without vis­it­ing the site could do so without hav­ing to attend the site vis­it. This was con­firmed as being correct.

5. Action Points arising: None.

Agenda Item 8: Date of Next Meeting

1. Fri­day 25^th Feb­ru­ary 2022 at 10am via video/​telephone conference.

2. The pub­lic busi­ness of the meet­ing con­cluded at 10.25 hours.