APPROVED COM­MIT­TEE MINUTES

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

APPROVED MINUTES OF THE PLAN­NING COMMITTEE held via Video Con­fer­ence on 25 March 2022 at 9.30am

Mem­bers Present:

Dr Gaen­er Rodger (Con­vener) Elean­or Mack­in­tosh (Deputy Con­vener) Peter Argyle Geva Black­ett Car­o­lyn Cad­dick Deirdre Fal­con­er Pippa Had­ley Janet Hunter John Kirk John Lath­am Douglas McAdam Xan­der McDade Wil­lie McK­enna lan McLar­en Dr Fiona McLean Derek Ross Judith Webb

In Attend­ance:

Gav­in Miles, Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning Mur­ray Fer­guson, Dir­ect­or of Plan­ning & Place Emma Bryce, Plan­ning Man­ager, Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment Alan Atkins, Plan­ning Officer, Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment Katie Crerar, Plan­ning Officer, Devel­op­ment Plan­ning Peter Fer­guson, Harp­er McLeod LLP

Apo­lo­gies:

Anne Rae Mac­don­ald Wil­li­am Munro

Agenda Items I & 2: Wel­come & Apologies

1. The Con­vener wel­comed all present. Apo­lo­gies were noted.

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Agenda Item 3: Minutes & Mat­ters Arising from the Pre­vi­ous Meeting

1. The minutes of the pre­vi­ous meet­ing, 25 Feb­ru­ary 2022, held via video con­fer­en­cing were approved sub­ject to the fol­low­ing amendments:
   • At Para. 31. Cor­rect the num­bers to: 7 for the motion and 10 for the amendment.
   • At Para. 37. Change the para­graph to read ​“The Com­mit­tee were invited to ask for any points of clar­ity on the con­tri­bu­tion of Tessa Jones of Badenoch & Strath­spey Con­ser­va­tion Group (object­or) no points were raised. The Con­vener thanked Tessa Jones for her contribution.”

Agenda Item 4: Declar­a­tion of Interest by Mem­bers on Items Appear­ing on the Agenda

1. Douglas McAdam declared a fin­an­cial Interest in Item 5. Reas­on: Clova Estate includ­ing the Clova Hotel are mem­bers of the deer man­age­ment group that he is employed to chairs so he would with­draw from the discussion.

2. Peter Argyle, Geva Black­ett, John Lath­am declared a (non-fin­an­cial) Interest in Item 6. Reas­on: Aber­deen­shire Coun­cil has respon­ded at officer level, to the item and for reas­ons of trans­par­ency these board mem­bers, as mem­bers of Aber­deen­shire Coun­cil, declared an interest but would take part.

3. Xan­der McDade declared a (non- fin­an­cial) interest in Item 6. Reas­on: Perth and Kinross Coun­cil has respon­ded at officer level, to the item and for reas­ons of trans­par­ency, as a mem­ber of Perth and Kinross Coun­cil, he declared an interest but would take part.

Agenda Item 5: Detailed Plan­ning Per­mis­sion 2021/0168/DET Erec­tion of 8 No. Hol­i­day Lodges and Plant/​Storage Build­ing, Form­a­tion of Vehicu­lar Access, Park­ing and Turn­ing Areas, Install­a­tion of Sewage Treat­ment Plant and Sur­face Water Soakaways At Land North West of Clova Hotel, Glen Clova Recom­mend­a­tion: REFUSE

1. Gav­in Miles, Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning, presen­ted the paper to the Committee.

2. The Com­mit­tee were invited to ask points of clar­ity, the fol­low­ing point was raised:

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8. A mem­ber asked if the applic­ant con­sidered few­er chalets. Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning con­firmed the applic­ant had been asked to con­sider altern­at­ives but that the applic­ant con­sidered it would affect the viab­il­ity of the development.

1. Emelda McLean (Plan­ning Agent) was invited by the Con­vener to address the Com­mit­tee. (Alistair Todd, Agent for the Estate and Peter Gun­ning, Archi­tect were also avail­able to answer questions).

The Com­mit­tee were invited to ask points of clar­ity to the speak­er, the fol­low­ing points were raised: a) The design of the units was dis­cussed. Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning explained it was not the design of indi­vidu­al units which was the con­cern of the plan­ning team but the way they are set across the hill­side. The agent replied that they would be pre­pared to do more plant­ing. b) A query was raised as to the pos­sib­il­ity of wood clad­ding rather than cement fibre. Peter Gun­ning (Archi­tect) explained cement fibre was chosen as it was zero main­ten­ance across its life and used in a new build nearby. The applic­ant pre­ferred cement fibre clad­ding. c) Dis­cus­sion of trees in the area. Pro­posed new trees are small (gean and row­an) and would take some years to make any sig­ni­fic­ant dif­fer­ence in land­scape. The Plan­ning Agent explained the applic­ant would be pre­pared to dis­cuss any pre­ferred spe­cies and addi­tion­al plant­ing as a plan­ning con­di­tion. The Archi­tect had taken tree spe­cies advice from forestry con­sult­ants. The exist­ing trees are lar­ger broad leaf spe­cies. d) The reas­on for long con­tinu­ous build­ings was dis­cussed and the con­cern about the impact of the reflec­tion of sun on win­dow glass par­tic­u­larly in winter. The Archi­tect explained the lin­ear form was chosen as it reflects the topo­graphy of the site in west against the wooded land­scape of the east. The Archi­tect felt the impact of glass was reas­on­able with large eaves over­hangs with well covered bal­conies. The Applic­ant could look at low reflect­ing glass.

1. The Con­vener thanked the Emelda Mclean and mem­bers of the applic­a­tion team for their contribution.

2. The Com­mit­tee were invited to dis­cuss the report, the fol­low­ing points were raised: a) Con­cerns about use of con­crete and urb­an type design in a Nation­al Park were dis­cussed. b) The design of sit­ing in lin­ear form was a con­cern and felt not appro­pri­ate even with par­tial mask­ing by trees in the long term. c) There was sup­port from the com­mit­tee for fur­ther devel­op­ment asso­ci­ated with the Hotel in principle.

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12. There was a sug­ges­tion of screen­ing with mature trees. It was cla­ri­fied that there was very little chance of trans­planted large trees sur­viv­ing in this loc­a­tion. It was dis­cussed that the form and design of the pro­posed devel­op­ment will res­ult in sig­ni­fic­ant adverse effect on the land­scape char­ac­ter, visu­al amen­ity and spe­cial land­scape qual­it­ies of the Nation­al Park.

1. The Com­mit­tee refused the applic­a­tion as per the Officer’s recommendation.

2. The Con­vener sug­ges­ted that the applic­ant might like to come back in the future as the Com­mit­tee would wel­come a pro­pos­al that provided eco­nom­ic bene­fit to the area with reduced impacts.

3. Action Points arising: None

Agenda Item 6: Adop­tion of Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan Non-Stat­utory Guidance

1. Katie Crerar, Plan­ning Officer, Devel­op­ment Plan­ning presen­ted the paper to the Committee.

2. The Com­mit­tee were invited to ask points of clar­ity and invited to dis­cuss the report, the fol­low­ing points were raised: a) Design and Place­mak­ing Non – Stat­utory Guid­ance: i. The Com­mit­tee dis­cussed the clear & excel­lent paper which used illus­tra­tions and examples for cla­ri­fic­a­tion. ii. Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning noted that Nas­im Mehr­abi the Gradu­ate Plan­ner did most of work includ­ing the illustrations.

3. Thanks to Nas­im Mehr­abi was form­ally recor­ded by the com­mit­tee in the minutes.

4. The Com­mit­tee dis­cussed the Developer Oblig­a­tions Sup­ple­ment­ary Guid­ance, the fol­low­ing com­ment was made: a) Neces­sary well-pre­pared piece of guid­ance tak­ing on com­ments dur­ing the consultation.

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1. The Com­mit­tee: a) Approved the modi­fic­a­tions to and adopt the Design and Place­mak­ing non stat­utory plan­ning guid­ance. b) Approved the modi­fic­a­tions to the Developer Oblig­a­tions Sup­ple­ment­ary Guid­ance for the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan 2021 and its sub­mis­sion to Scot­tish Ministers

2. Action Points arising: None

Agenda Item 7: AOB

1. There were no items presented.

Agenda Item 8: Date of Next Meeting

1. The date of the next meet­ing is Fri­day 22^nd April 2022 at 10am via video/​telephone con­fer­ence. There would be a Poten­tial Site vis­it at Aviemore on Thursday 21^st April 2022 late after­noon, details to be con­firmed near­er the time.

2. The pub­lic busi­ness of the meet­ing con­cluded at 10:40 hours.

Out­stand­ing actions from pre­vi­ous committees | Date | Action | | — — — — — — | — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — | | 23/04/2021 | There will be a devel­op­ment ses­sion for the Com­mit­tee in 2022 about land­scape effects inside and out­side the Nation­al Park (mainly related to windfarms) |