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This document contains a summary of the Highland Council's plans for a Short Term Let Control Area covering Badenoch and Strathspey, as well as the Cairngorms National Park Authority's (Park Authority) proposed response to the formal consultation. The Park Authority welcomes the Highland Council's proposals, as it believes this will help manage the availability of housing for people working in the National Park in the long term. Also, it acknowledges the implications for the Park Authority when acting as the planning authority and supports continued collaboration between officers and Highland Council colleagues on the development of more detailed planning policy to accompany the plans. The creation of the Short Term Let Control Area would mean that using a dwellinghouse for secondary letting would be considered a 'material change of use,' which requires planning approval, but it's not a ban on short term letting.