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NPPP Pro­gramme Deliv­ery — Conservation

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY Form­al Board Paper 5 Annex I 9^th Septem­ber 2022

Pri­or­ity	No.	Agenda for Action	Key Work Areas	5‑Year Out­come	Mile­stones & End Date	Deliv­ery Against 5‑Year Out­comes	RAG Assess­ment of Deliv­ery of Outcome
1. Land­scape Scale Conservation	1a.	Tar­get effort and sup­port to the most effect­ive oppor­tun­it­ies to deliv­er the pub­lic interest pri­or­it­ies such as wood­land improve­ment and expan­sion, peat­land res­tor­a­tion, flood risk management.	Pro­duce wood­land expan­sion tar­get map and pro­mote. Input to forestry con­sulta­tions. Pub­lish New Cairngorms Forest Strategy. Tar­get and pro­mote peat­land res­tor­a­tion oppor­tun­it­ies. Pro­mote oppor­tun­it­ies for nat­ur­al flood management.	5000 ha Nat­ive wood­land expan­sion. Improved wood­land hab­it­ats. Improved forest cre­ation and man­age­ment. 5000 ha Peat­land res­tor­a­tion. Examples of nat­ur­al flood management.	By sum­mer 2018 x By sum­mer 2019 y 5000ha wood­land expan­sion by 2022. Forestry con­sulta­tions respon­ded to as neces­sary. CFS pub­lished Autumn 2018 5000ha peat­land res­tor­a­tion by 2022. Sub-catch­ment mon­it­or­ing of extens­ive range of NFM measures	5195ha of new wood­land were approved by Scot­tish forestry with­in the CNP. This con­sisted of 2812ha of regen­er­a­tion and 2383ha of plant­ing. It is estim­ated that 96% of this new wood­land is nat­ive. 97.1% of des­ig­nated wood­land fea­tures are in favourable/​recov­er­ing con­di­tion. CNPA respon­ded to all rel­ev­ant forestry con­sulta­tions with­in the rel­ev­ant time­frames. Between 2014−31÷03÷22 2892ha of peat­land have been brought under res­tor­a­tion. Between 2014 – 2019 fund­ing was dir­ec­ted by SNH (now NatureScot) while from 2020 to present CNPA is a full Peat­land Action part­ner provid­ing a full peat­land res­tor­a­tion ser­vice to landowners.	Green
	1b.	Sup­port and fur­ther devel­op the role of catch­ment part­ner­ships (CPs) as mech­an­isms to co-ordin­ate land use plan­ning, and identi­fy pri­or­ity areas for nat­ur­al flood management.	Input to CPs to ensure they work effect­ively on the ground. Devel­op and mon­it­or CP action plans.	Effect­ive Catch­ment Part­ner­ships, achiev­ing prac­tic­al results.	Catch­ment Part­ner­ships fully staffed and integ­rated with Fish­ery Trusts. Wide range of new prac­tic­al examples of sus­tain­able catch­ment management	Fresh­wa­ter res­tor­a­tion and nat­ur­al flood man­age­ment work has sig­ni­fic­antly scaled up in recent years, with know­ledge and exper­i­ence aimed from smal­ler scale pilots and tri­als in the Park inform­ing and inspir­ing flag­ship flood­plain and river res­tor­a­tion pro­jects. Increas­ing capa­city in and fund­ing for Catch­ment Man­age­ment Part­ner­ships has been instru­ment­al to the abil­ity to plan for and imple­ment big­ger inter­ven­tions. Catch­ment Man­age­ment Part­ner­ships are increas­ing capa­city and, with increas­ing amounts of fund­ing becom­ing avail­able, are deliv­er­ing more and big­ger res­tor­a­tion and sus­tain­able man­age­ment pro­jects dir­ectly sup­port­ing deliv­ery of NPPP, Biod­iversity Strategy and integ­rated land use object­ives. They are highly regarded as effect­ive col­lab­or­a­tion and deliv­ery mod­els by land man­agers, res­tor­a­tion spe­cial­ists and agencies.	Green
	1c.	Sup­port land own­er led col­lab­or­a­tions to co-ordin­ate plan­ning, deliv­ery and mon­it­or­ing across mul­tiple land hold­ings, includ­ing Cairngorms Con­nect and the East Cairngorms Moor­land Partnership.	CC — Offer advice and sup­port to CC as reques­ted. ECMP — drive for­ward agreed pro­jects (eg hab­it­at enhance­ment map, rap­tor pro­jects, muir­burn plan).	CC — Long term pro­jects (eg mont­ane wood­land res­tor­a­tion, co-ordin­ated deer man­age­ment) begun. ECMP — Estates work­ing in co-ordin­ated fash­ion on agreed set of key projects.	CC-2018- ELP applic­a­tion suc­cess­ful. ECMP-2019 – key pro­jects under­way on muir­burn, wood­lands, raptors	Cairngorms Con­nect is widely recog­nised as one of the most suc­cess­ful eco­sys­tem res­tor­a­tion pro­jects in the UK. The plan­ning and deliv­ery of land­scape-scale nat­ive wood­land expan­sion and enhance­ment, bog, peat­land and wet­land res­tor­a­tion and deer man­age­ment is widely shared with oth­er land man­agers and part­ner­ships in CNP, nation­ally and inter­na­tion­ally, sig­ni­fic­antly rais­ing the pro­file of the Nation­al Park as a place for col­lab­or­a­tion and land­scape-scale part­ner­ship work­ing. Land man­agers in the East Cairngorms Moor­land Part­ner­ship con­tin­ue to work col­lab­or­at­ively across estate bound­ar­ies to identi­fy and deliv­er hab­it­at enhance­ment and spe­cies con­ser­va­tion pro­jects that illus­trate the mul­tiple private and pub­lic bene­fits asso­ci­ated with moor­land man­age­ment. Their work is inspiring	Green
	1d.	Co-ordin­ate hab­it­at, recre­ation and devel­op­ment man­age­ment to secure the caper­cail­lie pop­u­la­tion through deliv­ery of the Caper­cail­lie Framework.	NLHF bid: Com­munity con­sulta­tion & action plan­ning; forest expan­sion & enhance­ment; genet­ic research; mon­it­or­ing; fence marking/​remov­al. Explore translocation/​rein­tro­duc­tion	150ha new nat­ive wood­land Action Plans in 5 com­munit­ies of interest and place Translocation/​rein­tro­duc­tion?	NLHF pro­ject devel­op­ment phase under­way sum­mer 2018; phase two applic­a­tion sub­mit­ted spring 2019 Translocation/​rein­tro­duc­tion (or not) agreed by end 2020	oth­er estates in the area to con­sider ways of joint work­ing and col­lab­or­at­ive pro­ject plan­ning. The Cairngorms Caper­cail­lie Pro­ject has sup­por­ted a num­ber of com­munit­ies of interest to devel­op ways more people can get involved in caper­cail­lie con­ser­va­tion with 5 co-cre­ated action plans in place and at vari­ous stages of deliv­ery. The pro­ject has also facil­it­ated more than 150ha of new wood­land cre­ation and improve­ments to exist­ing wood­land. Whilst under­stand­ing of the pop­u­la­tion genet­ics have advanced sig­ni­fic­antly, we are not yet at a point where a decision can be taken on rein­tro­duc­tion. Work on oth­er parts of the caper­cail­lie frame­work have also advanced sig­ni­fic­antly with the pub­lic­a­tion of a NatureScot Sci­entif­ic Advis­ory Com­mit­tee report pro­du­cing advice on emer­gency meas­ures to safe­guard the pop­u­la­tion, includ­ing pred­at­or management.	Amber
	1e.	Deliv­er co-ordin­ated con­ser­va­tion action through the Tomin­toul and Glen­liv­et Land­scape Partnership.	Lead the TGLP Man­age TGLP staff Fin­an­cial administration	Suc­cess­ful deliv­ery of the HLF fun­ded Land­scape Con­ser­va­tion Action Plan	Bird hide built — Winter 2017 Dis­cov­ery Centre open — Spring 2018	The Tomin­toul and Glen­liv­et Land­scape Part­ner­ship (TGLP) pro­ject suc­cess­fully com­pleted in 2020. The pro­ject enabled and sup­por­ted the com­munity in telling the hid­den his­tory of the area through a £500,000 revamp of the Dis­cov­ery Centre, the devel­op­ment of the secluded Scalan sem­in­ary and doc­u­ment­ing of the area’s cul­tur­al her­it­age. The nat­ur­al her­it­age has been enhanced with river res­tor­a­tion pro­jects, walk­ing paths a wild­life hide and hab­it­at cre­ation for waders. There is a last­ing leg­acy as the world’s most north­erly dark sky park, increased com­munity capa­city and empower­ment and high qual­ity infrastructure.	Green
	1f.	Devel­op a region­al Natura Plan for the suite of Spe­cial Areas of Con­ser­va­tion (SACs) and Spe­cial Pro­tec­tion Areas (SPAs) in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park. The plan will address con­ser­va­tion object­ives, meas­ures, and pri­or­it­ies for the suite of sites. It will seek to enhance deliv­ery of favour­able con­di­tion and integ­rate site man­age­ment with broad­er con­ser­va­tion object­ives bey­ond the des­ig­nated sites	Cla­ri­fy (with­in CNPA) what a suc­cess­ful out­come looks like Build sup­port crit­ic­ally with SNH – for this object­ive Pilot what this looks like on one/​two key sites	One/​two pro­jects being worked out in practice	2019-work under­way with SNH and FCS on one site (Glenavon or Glen Tilt?) to under­stand how new wood­land might be developed on a des­ig­nated open ground site	NatureScot has pro­duced Con­ser­va­tion Advice Pack­ages to help pro­tect and man­age all Natura sites in the Park, set­ting clear con­ser­va­tion object­ives and pri­or­it­ies appro­pri­ate to the sites. CAPs have provided clar­ity where there might be a need to favour the man­age­ment of one des­ig­nated fea­ture over anoth­er. For example, favour­ing rare pine­wood hab­it­at over more wide­spread open ground hab­it­ats, or man­aging the interests of one spe­cies over anoth­er. Chal­lenges still remain in con­sid­er­ing where the undes­ig­nated com­pon­ents of nat­ur­al suc­ces­sion and eco­sys­tem res­tor­a­tion are not com­pat­ible with main­tain­ing the favour­able status of des­ig­nated fea­tures that require sig­ni­fic­ant inter­ven­tion. CNPA and NS con­tin­ue to work to find res­ol­u­tion on some key sites e.g. Glen Tilt.	Amber
	1g.	Plan pro­act­ively for the poten­tial and man­age­ment implic­a­tions of beaver populations.	Stake­hold­er engage­ment Hab­it­at pre­par­a­tion Scen­ario planning	Pro­gramme of hab­it­at man­age­ment in place	Scen­ario plan­ning & options apprais­al sum­mer 2018	The Cairngorms Nature beaver sub-group, estab­lished in 2018, has been a very suc­cess­ful for a for bring­ing togeth­er stake­hold­ers to dis­cuss, plan and pre­pare for beaver arrival.	Green
	1h.	Con­sider options to provide appro­pri­ate pub­lic recog­ni­tion where large areas of land are man­aged for nature conservation	Col­late examples of best prac­tice achiev­ing con­ser­va­tion goals Cairngorms Nature BIG Week­end. CN Comm’s & Engage­ment. Agree with key part­ners how to pro­mote suc­cess loc­ally, nation­ally and internationally	Stake­hold­ers well informed and prepared	Hab­it­at man­age­ment pro­jects star­ted 2019	Ripari­an wood­land expan­sion and pro­tec­tion as been a key fea­ture of the deliv­ery of the Cairngorms Nature action Plan and sens­it­ive spe­cies such as aspen and aspen hov­er­fly sites have been mapped in pre­par­a­tion for any neces­sary mit­ig­a­tion and pro­tec­tion meas­ures. Land man­agers in the Park feel sig­ni­fic­antly bet­ter pre­pared with wide­spread stake­hold­er sup­port for a CNPA lead­er­ship role in trans­lo­ca­tions. Cairngorms Nature com­mu­nic­a­tions chan­nels and inter­pret­a­tion in vis­it­or centres and ranger bases have been highly suc­cess­ful in rais­ing aware­ness and under­stand­ing of the range of con­ser­va­tion work in the Park, with stead­ily increas­ing engage­ment rates over time.	Green
	1i.	Con­tin­ue to dir­ect pub­lic funds to sup­port deliv­ery of pub­lic bene­fits and explore new oppor­tun­it­ies for fund­ing includ­ing, for example, car­bon man­age­ment and vol­un­tary con­ser­va­tion contributions	Par­ti­cip­ate in rel­ev­ant dis­cus­sions on e.g. Brexit and farm­ing, vis­it­or giv­ing Con­sider oppor­tun­it­ies for car­bon moneys into land man­age­ment, vis­it­or con­tri­bu­tions to key projects	Pub­lic funds tar­geted more clearly with­in Park. Clar­ity on wheth­er car­bon and vis­it­or fund­ing is prac­tic­al and realistic	Improved pub­li­cising of suc­cesses on the web, at events and in pub­lic­a­tions — 2020 Research into eco­nom­ic, envir­on­ment­al and social invest­ment mod­els across CNP to be piloted in 2019 Aim to more overtly pub­li­cise suc­cess through Bal­later inter­pret­a­tion and through comms strategy 2019 vis­it­or giv­ing pilots estab­lished. New grant sources suc­cess­ful e.g. ELP. Car­bon fund­ing fur­ther explored	Flag­ship pro­jects and col­lab­or­a­tions such as Wild­life Estates Scot­land, Cairngorms Con­nect and wild­cat rein­tro­duc­tion have sig­ni­fic­antly con­trib­uted to wide­spread recog­ni­tion of the range of con­ser­va­tion in the Cairngorms. Estates, NGOs, com­munit­ies, ranger ser­vices and busi­nesses have all con­trib­uted to mak­ing the Cairngorms Nature BIG week­end a grow­ing suc­cess with increas­ing par­ti­cip­a­tion and attend­ance. The Park’s repu­ta­tion and recog­ni­tion for con­tri­bu­tions from all sec­tors is increas­ingly recog­nised at a nation­al level with reg­u­lar appear­ances on nation­al TV, radio and press art­icles. Pub­lic funds are increas­ingly tar­geted towards stra­tegic object­ives in the NPPP as, for example, the Forest Strategy influ­ences wood­land cre­ation, the Cairngorms Nature Action Plan influ­ences the Nature Res­tor­a­tion Fund and Peat­land ACTION funds are awar­ded dir­ectly by CNPA. NLHF and Endangered Land­scape Part­ner­ship fund­ing alone has con­trib­uted to more than £10million of invest­ment in deliv­er­ing NPPP pri­or­it­ies. CNPA has been at the fore­front of devel­op­ing mod­els for private invest­ment in nat­ur­al cap­it­al that blend pub­lic and private fin­ances, with dir­ect com­munity bene­fit built in.	Green
2. Deer Management	2a.	Provid­ing clar­ity on the pub­lic interest pri­or­it­ies and devel­op­ing spa­tial map­ping approaches to show these	Ensure pub­lic interest pri­or­it­ies integ­rated with DMPs. Spa­tial map­ping to id. oppor­tun­it­ies for: woodland/​scrub expan­sion and peat­land res­tor­a­tion, map muir­burn plans	Deer man­age­ment deliv­er­ing pub­lic interest and the themes of the Deer Code	DMP imple­ment­a­tion to be reas­sessed by SNH in 2019. DMPs revi­sion 2021	Deer man­age­ment plans (DMPs) were pro­duced for all Deer Man­age­ment Groups across the Park. These DMPs out­line how DMGs will deliv­er 14 spe­cif­ic areas of pub­lic interest, derived from the Code of Prac­tice on deer Man­age­ment. Actions to deliv­er pub­lic interest include deliv­ery of des­ig­nated sites into favour­able con­di­tion, con­tri­bu­tions towards nation­al wood­land expan­sion tar­gets, man­age­ment of INNS, pub­lic access and eco­nom­ic object­ives. There has been improve­ment in some DMG per­form­ance across the pub­lic interest cri­ter­ia. Many of these pub­lic interest object­ives have been met, and, whilst pro­gress has been made in the nat­ur­al her­it­age related cat­egor­ies, these cat­egor­ies remain those where most pro­gress is still to be made.	Amber
	2b.	Sup­port­ing the use of pop­u­la­tion mod­el­ling, herb­i­vore impact assess­ments and hab­it­at mon­it­or­ing to inform management	Facilitate/​develop pop mod­els to reflect DMP objectives/​targets. Facil­it­ate HIA train­ing, and meth­od­o­logy on smal­ler estates. Integ­rate HIA into objectives/​targets.	Imple­ment­a­tion of DMPs/​management actions based on pop mod­el­ling integ­rated with HIA across all DMGs. Expand use of data across all DMGs — 2021. Integ­rate approach into ADMG’s SWARD data­base 2022	HIA train­ing and imple­ment­a­tion com­pleted across DMGs. Res­ults mapped and presen­ted for future update. Remain­ing 4 estates in CSDMG to be trained and imple­men­ted in Spring 2019	DMGs have util­ised pop­u­la­tion mod­els to influ­ence cull plan­ning in all areas except where dens­it­ies are very low and cull­ing is driv­en exclus­ively by evid­ence of wood­land recov­ery. HIA has been imple­men­ted across approx­im­ately 80% of the deer range. While the con­di­tion of exist­ing hab­it­ats is gen­er­ally good, there is clearly room for hab­it­at enhance­ment in some parts of the Park. Com­mu­nic­a­tion and data shar­ing has improved across all DMGs and the SWARD data­base has not been developed fur­ther by ADMG and is no longer con­sidered a priority.	Amber
	2c.	Sup­port­ing an adapt­ive approach by mon­it­or­ing the hab­it­at, eco­nom­ic and wel­fare implic­a­tions of changes in the con­text of the Deer Code	Encour­age a deer man­age­ment approach based on integ­rat­ing HIA with reg­u­lar pop assess­ment and respons­ive cull­ing. Expand use of HIA across all DMGS	Imple­ment­a­tion of DMPs/​man­age­ment actions based on pop mod­els that deliv­er land use object­ives, integ­rated with HIA and deer wel­fare met­rics across all DMGs	Pilot study under­taken using avail­able man­age­ment data integ­rat­ing pop, hab­it­at, wel­fare — 2017. Expand use of data across all DMGs — 2021.	Deer Man­age­ment Plans and their imple­ment­a­tion have all been developed with wider stra­tegic land use in mind, facil­it­ated by spa­tial plans pro­duced by CNPA e.g. for wood­land expan­sion cap­ab­il­ity and tar­get­ing. Spe­cific­ally, in terms of deer wel­fare there have been some harsh win­ters across the Park in the last 5 years. Sig­ni­fic­ant deer mor­tal­ity has been recor­ded on some estates but has not been widespread.	Green
	2d.	Sup­port­ing great­er co-ordin­a­tion of roe deer man­age­ment and asso­ci­ated hab­it­at and eco­nom­ic bene­fits, and col­la­tion of pop­u­la­tion inform­a­tion on all deer species	Encour­age devel­op­ment of ​‘low ground’ (<600m and wood­land) DMPS based on dung count­ing and HIA	Devel­op­ment /​implementation of ​‘low ground’ (<600m and wood­land) DMPs across all rel­ev­ant DMGS	‘Low ground’ DMP devel­op­ment for CSDMG (part) — Feb 2019. Devel­op­ment of ​‘low ground’ DMPs for all rel­ev­ant DMGS — 2021	These plans have not been widely developed. There are sig­ni­fic­ant chal­lenges asso­ci­ated with the resourcing and cost of estab­lish­ing accur­ate pop­u­la­tion fig­ures and the cost/​bene­fit of doing so. Some estates and the Nation­al Forest Estate have deer man­age­ment plans for their own prop­er­ties, primar­ily to min­im­ise impacts on agri­cul­ture, des­ig­nated fea­tures and con­ser­va­tion object­ives. Wood­land deer pop­u­la­tions were estim­ated across much of the CSDMG in 2018 using dung counts. Sur­vey data was used by estates with­in the DMG to col­lab­or­ate on set­ting cull tar­gets and to man­age deer impacts.	Amber
	2e.	Sup­port­ing Deer Man­age­ment Groups and facil­it­at­ing com­mu­nic­a­tion and joint action across Deer Man­age­ment Group bound­ar­ies where necessary	Devel­op and form­al­ise prag­mat­ic approaches to deer man­age­ment across marches between estates with rad­ic­ally dif­fer­ent land use policies. Facil­it­ate communication.	Adapt­ive man­age­ment solu­tions based on reg­u­lar pop assess­ment and respons­ive cull­ing imple­men­ted through col­lab­or­a­tion across DMG marches	Adapt­ive man­age­ment and com­mu­nic­a­tion estab­lished between Atholl Estates and Wild­land Ltd 2016 – 2018. Ongo­ing and reviewed annu­ally. Caen­lochan SAC — hab­it­at and pop study com­plete Feb 2019. Review meet­ings under­way (SNH)	Reg­u­lar pop­u­la­tion assess­ment has been car­ried out by both pub­lic and private sec­tors. Col­lab­or­a­tion across DMG marches is car­ried out in both the private interest and the pub­lic interest. CNPA takes an act­ive role in fos­ter­ing and facil­it­at­ing a joined up approach and know­ledge exchange between DMGs via land­scape scale part­ner­ships and ini­ti­at­ives such as Her­it­age Hori­zons, Cairngorms Con­nect and East Cairngorms Moor­land Part­ner­ship. Con­flicts based on dif­fer­ing land use object­ives still remain, how­ever there has been a sig­ni­fic­ant improve­ment in com­mu­nic­a­tion and data shar­ing between DMGs in the Park.	Green
3. Moor­land Management	3a.	Improv­ing a shared defin­i­tion and under­stand­ing of healthy moor­land ecosystems	Provide examples of both ​‘bad prac­tice and good prac­tice’ Pub­li­cise (see also Ih.)	Clear under­stand­ing of appro­pri­ate moor­land man­age­ment in a Nation­al Park context	SDNA/EGDMG S/AI	Over the last 5 years the ECMP part­ners have very suc­cess­fully iden­ti­fied what the pub­lic interest is in moor­land man­age­ment eg wood­land and scrub expan­sion, no rap­tor per­se­cu­tion and spe­cies con­ser­va­tion, all sup­por­ted by map­ping, sur­vey­ing and mon­it­or­ing. Whilst there is a clear under­stand­ing of what the pub­lic interest entails, the bal­ance and clar­ity of expect­a­tion around respect­ive deliv­ery between pub­lic and private interest deliv­ery is still developing.	Amber
	3b.	Deliv­er­ing more hab­it­at and spe­cies diversity with­in and along­side moorlands	Pro­mote woodland/​scrub expan­sion Focus on good muir­burn prac­tice Provide examples of both ​‘bad prac­tice and good prac­tice’ Hab­it­at and spe­cies monitoring	Clear under­stand­ing of appro­pri­ate moor­land man­age­ment in a Nation­al Park con­text Woodland/​scrub expan­sion — nat­ur­al trans­ition & struc­tur­al diversity	Clar­ity with ECMP part­ners is devel­op­ing into more con­crete examples of best prac­tice and map­ping of muirburn/​wood­land expan­sion. Indic­at­or spe­cies mon­it­or­ing estab­lished 2019 Muir­burn code map­ping pro­gress­ing Ancient pine/​woodland rem­nant map­ping pro­gress­ing Case studies/​high pro­file areas pro­moted 2020	Over the last 5 years the ECMP part­ners have very suc­cess­fully iden­ti­fied what the pub­lic interest is in moor­land man­age­ment eg wood­land and scrub expan­sion, no rap­tor per­se­cu­tion and spe­cies con­ser­va­tion, all sup­por­ted by map­ping, sur­vey­ing and mon­it­or­ing. Whilst there is a clear under­stand­ing of what the pub­lic interest entails, the bal­ance and clar­ity of expect­a­tion around respect­ive deliv­ery between pub­lic and private interest deliv­ery is still devel­op­ing. Encour­aging areas of nat­ur­al regen­er­a­tion and a more nat­ur­al trans­ition from the moor­land edge with great­er spe­cies and struc­tur­al diversity is pro­gress­ing well in west of Park (Cairngorms Con­nect and Kin­veachy) but remains lim­ited in scope in South and East where deer stalk­ing and grouse shoot­ing remain a dom­in­ant land use object­ive. A com­bin­a­tion of incent­ives and reg­u­la­tion, com­bined with wider Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment policy, will likely influ­ence deer & grouse man­age­ment in this area over the next 5 years.	Amber
	3c.	Imple­ment­ing guid­ance and tri­al­ling new approaches emer­ging from nation­al ini­ti­at­ives, for example: map­ping what imple­ment­a­tion of the revised muir­burn code means, using the Prin­ciples of Moor­land Man­age­ment and using the les­sons of the Under­stand­ing Pred­a­tion pro­ject to share know­ledge and data	Map impact of imple­ment­a­tion of revised muir­burn code, oppor­tun­it­ies for woodland/​scrub expan­sion. Initiate/​implement spe­cies mon­it­or­ing and man­age­ment planning	ECMP out­comes: #Com­bined deliv­ery of private and pub­lic interest out­comes; # Great­er hab­it­at diversity, includ­ing expan­sion of wood­land and scrub in key loc­a­tions; # Retained sense of wild­ness and land­scape value; # Diverse wild­life pop­u­la­tions appro­pri­ate to the land­scape and hab­it­ats; # Improved under­stand­ing of	Wader nest­ing pro­ductiv­ity pro­ject with BTO (phase I com­plete and pub­lished — Jan 2019. Devel­op­ment of moun­tain hare man­age­ment plans 2019. Spe­cies mon­it­or­ing estab­lished and data col­lec­tion ini­ti­ated 2019. Spa­tial map­ping of muir­burn plans, woodland/​scrub expan­sion — 2019	Land man­agers in the East Cairngorms Moor­land Part­ner­ship con­tin­ue to work col­lab­or­at­ively across estate bound­ar­ies to identi­fy and deliv­er hab­it­at enhance­ment and spe­cies con­ser­va­tion pro­jects that illus­trate the mul­tiple private and pub­lic bene­fits asso­ci­ated with moor­land man­age­ment. Examples of joint work­ing include muir­burn map­ping and plan­ning, rap­tor sur­vey and mon­it­or­ing, wader sur­veys and hab­it­at man­age­ment, peat­land res­tor­a­tion, wood­land expan­sion, ripari­an plant­ing and bio­lo­gic­al and envir­on­ment­al data shar­ing. Their work is inspir­ing oth­er estates in the area to con­sider ways of joint work­ing and col­lab­or­at­ive pro­ject plan­ning. Lim­ited wood­land expan­sion has taken place. Ripari­an cor­ridors are rap­idly expand­ing as object­ives over­lap with sal­mon interests in the upper catch­ments. Encour­aging areas of nat­ur­al regen­er­a­tion and a more nat­ur­al trans­ition from the moor­land edge with great­er spe­cies and struc­tur­al diversity remains lim­ited in scope. Man­age­ment for sport shoot­ing con­tin­ues to be an import­ant land use across sig­ni­fic­ant areas of the Park. High­er deer dens­it­ies in some areas and muir­burn for grouse man­age­ment com­bine to inhib­it nat­ur­al regen­er­a­tion and scrub devel­op­ment in many areas.	Amber

Vis­it­or Experience

Pri­or­ity	No.	Agenda for Action	Key Work Areas	5‑Year Out­come	Mile­stones & End Date	Deliv­ery Against 5‑Year Out­comes	RAG Assess­ment of Deliv­ery of Outcome
4. Vis­it­or Infra­struc­ture and Information	4a.	Devel­op­ing new ways includ­ing vis­it­or giv­ing to fund infra­struc­ture invest­ment and main­tain­ing and upgrad­ing key off-road routes includ­ing Spey­side Way, Deeside Way and the Core Paths network.	Agree a tri­al park wide vis­it­or giv­ing pro­ject Invest­ig­ate options to bet­ter link coun­tryside car park charges to access improvement	Sus­tain­able, effect­ive and effi­cient vis­it­or giv­ing scheme	Tri­al pro­ject agreed and work­ing April 2019. Reviewed Tri­al Oct 2020	The Cairngorms Trust is now lead­ing on Vis­it­or Giv­ing Scheme in part­ner­ship with CNPA and CBP. Many new infra­struc­ture pro­jects have been imple­men­ted and there re are good exem­plars in place, rais­ing money from car park­ing to recycle into resource con­ser­va­tion and main­ten­ance. Over­all assess­ment is Amber as Scheme is still very mod­est fin­an­cially not developed as far as was anti­cip­ated largely due to chal­lenges of Cov­id Pan­dem­ic. This has giv­en new impetus to the import­ance of provid­ing vis­it­or infra­struc­ture and new plan is in preparation	Amber
	4b.	Deliv­er­ing a con­sist­ent high qual­ity of vis­it­or wel­come through new and improved inform­a­tion, sup­port for ranger ser­vices and part­ner­ship work­ing to sup­port busi­nesses, com­munit­ies and vis­it­or attractions	CNPA agree part­ner­ship with Com­munity VC’s Con­tin­ue to deliv­er Make it Yours Main­tain part­ner­ship with Ranger Services	8 Part­ner VC’s ​‘Info is easy to find’ Agree Strongly increase from 32% to 36% in Vis­it­or Sur­vey (from 2014⁄15 to 2019⁄20)	8 agree­ments April ​‘18 renewed ​‘21 100 Staff per annum each yr to 2020. Review CNPA part­ner­ship with Ranger Ser­vices 2018	Very strong deliv­ery against this pri­or­ity includ­ing very sig­ni­fic­ant increase in ranger deploy­ment with new per­man­ent CNPA ranger ser­vice. Feed­back form Vis­it­or Sur­vey was very pos­it­ive pre­vi­ously and has improved from 2014⁄15 to 2019⁄20.	Green
	4c.	Improv­ing the vis­it­or infra­struc­ture in Cairngorm and Glenmore.	FCS Vis­it­or Man­age­ment Plan Updated NR Vis­it­or Man­age­ment Plan agreed Improve pub­lic trans­port Improve signage	Agreed plan linked to strategy Agreed plan linked to strategy Bet­ter links to area and between exist­ing car parks Agree cri­ter­ia for vis­it­or signage	Act­ive travel infra­struc­ture agreed 2020 New sig­nage installed 2019	Glen­more path now com­plete with four ​‘slow road’ cross­ing points. High­land Coun­cil scop­ing 20 mph speed lim­it. Double yel­low lines added, and enforce­ment activ­ity com­menced sum­mer 2022. New pub­lic toi­let at Glen­more being pro­gressed by HC. HC has fund­ing (with sup­port from CNPA) to improve road­side along Loch Mor­lich but on hold 2022 await­ing fur­ther envir­on­ment­al assess­ment work. HC also has fund­ing to improve toi­let pro­vi­sion in Glen­more. Cairngorm Moun­tain oper­at­ing camper­van site at Coire Ciste Car Park Coire Cas car park improve­ments includ­ing improved sense of wel­come / gate­way under way sum­mer 2022. Funicu­lar reopen­ing now delayed until winter 2022⁄23. Improve­ments agreed to Ptar­mig­an ​‘sta­tion’ — a key place to share the stor­ies of Cairngorms Nation­al Park and sense of place improve­ments under way sum­mer 2022.	Amber
	4d.	Tomin­toul and Glenlivet	Upgrade Vis­it­or Centre in Tomin­toul Cre­ate digit­al vis­it­or exper­i­ence data Upgrade Spey­side way spur and link­age between Blairfindy Castle and Glen­liv­et Distillery		New VC open 2019	New Loc­al Inform­a­tion Centre open at Glen­liv­et Moun­tain Bike Centre Green Recov­ery Fund is help­ing upgrade inter­pret­a­tion re Dark Skies in Tomin­toul.. Moray Spey­side and CBP are pro­mot­ing Spey­side Way in 2022	Green
	4e.	Com­plet­ing the ​‘Snow Roads Scen­ic Route’ and devel­op­ing a sim­il­ar exper­i­ence along the A9	Vis­it­or Sur­vey Brand­ing Vis­it­or Exper­i­ence Devel­op and pro­mote ​‘Old A9’ as a vis­it­or experience.	Vis­it­ors to E Cairngorms increase from 21 to 25% (STEAM) People vis­it com­munit­ies from Kil­li­crankie to Car­rbridge on the jour­ney north or south.	SE Pro­ject Com­pleted May 2019	Ongo­ing pro­mo­tion led by Cairngorms Busi­ness Part­ner­ship. Badenoch Great Place pro­ject com­plete. This developed com­pre­hens­ive area des­tin­a­tion brand, set of resources includ­ing app, new web­site and routes around fea­tures of interest. More loc­ally led activ­ity as a legacy.	Green
	4f.	Encour­aging the pro­vi­sion of low cost camp­ing and motor home sites in appro­pri­ate locations	Map exist­ing pro­vi­sion and determ­ine vis­it­or need	Agreed plan, with part­ners, for devel­op­ing camp­ing and camper­van pro­vi­sion in Cairngorms	Agree plan to pro­mote ​‘Old A9’ 2019 Launch 2020 Camper­van map of Cairngorms Nation­al Park show­ing waste dis­pos­al sites 2021. Reprin­ted 2022.	See 5.g (cross reporting)	Cairngorm Moun­tain devel­op­ing sites for camper­vans. New full-ser­vice camp­site at Aviemore. Croila Croft Aire opened at Kin­gussie 2021. CNPA secured sup­port from Vis­it Scot­land to pre­pare Stra­tegic Tour­ism Infra­struc­ture Plan by end of 2021 — now anti­cip­ated late 2022.	Amber
	5a.	Using part­ner­ship in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park as an example of how to sup­port deliv­ery of Scotland’s Nat­ur­al Health Service	Pro­mot­ing phys­ic­al activ­ity Pro­mot­ing phys­ic­al activ­ity as part of	Part­ners help deliv­er ​‘game changer pro­ject’ Act­ive Aviemore CNPA main­tains mem­ber­ship of	Badenoch Pro­ject Trans­port Scot­land lead­ing the devel­op­ment of a new multi-use path between Aviemore and Car­rbridge. New timetable for deliv­ery of A9 dualling awaited. Con­tin­ued uncer­tainty over implic­a­tions for farm­ing sec­tor fol­low­ing Brexit. Cairngorms selec­ted as nation­al Pilot and Region­al Land Use Part­ner­ship Officer recruited. LDP was adop­ted on 26 March 2021 and includes new sites as well as a flex­ible policy approach to busi­ness development.	Fur­ther work required to ensure nation­al con­sist­ency on mes­saging See 5.g (cross reporting)	Amber
5. Act­ive Cairngorms	5b.	Encour­aging res­id­ents and vis­it­ors to respons­ibly enjoy and use the Nation­al Park for phys­ic­al activ­ity as part of daily life	Out­door Access	Increased levels of respons­ible access and aware­ness of out­door oppor­tun­it­ies • Tread Lightly Cam­paign delivered with 5 new tar­geted com­mu­nic­a­tions pa Com­munity path leaf­lets resur­veyed and repub­lished with nation­al path grad­ing guid­ance (2 com­munit­ies per year)	Mes­saging to com­pli­ment quarterly land man­age­ment cal­en­dar Pub­lished annually	Tread Lightly cam­paign mater­i­als redraf­ted to meet post Cov­id needs and sup­por­ted ​‘on the ground’ with an enhanced ranger ser­vice. Health walks groups re-star­ted (see below)	Green
	5c.	Tar­get­ing people cur­rently liv­ing sedent­ary life­styles where inactiv­ity is the norm; older adults, teen­age girls and those liv­ing with long-term med­ic­al conditions	Wee Walks Week	Increased level of phys­ic­al activ­ity and men­tal well­being. • Increase num­ber of par­ti­cipants and miles walked by 5%pa	Annu­al week long event each September	Stalled by Cov­id-19: Re-engage­ment with Wee Walks Week pro­mot­ing health for all in Octo­ber 2021. Con­tinu­ing for 2022. Fur­ther work required in both pro­mot­ing and mon­it­or­ing func­tion­al act­ive travel. Cairngorms Trust e‑bike pro­ject is now mak­ing free loans of e‑bikes in part to tar­get increased phys­ic­al activity	Amber
	5d.	Main­tain­ing and grow­ing health walks through the Cairngorms Walk­ing pro­ject and link­ing with oth­er oppor­tun­it­ies to be active	Health Walks	Increased level of phys­ic­al activ­ity and men­tal well­being • Set up 3 new Health Walk ini­ti­at­ives pa 2 new med­ic­al prac­tices engaged with Health Walks per annum	Annu­al report to Paths for All	Stalled by Cov­id-19 lock­down but 12 groups now act­ive and train­ing of addi­tion­al walk lead­ers under­taken in 2021 & continuing.	Green
	5e.	Deliv­er­ing more envir­on­ment­al volun­teer­ing oppor­tun­it­ies and devel­op­ing volun­teer rangers	Envir­on­ment­al volun­teer­ing Volun­teer ranger service	• 50 people attend­ing Paths for All Train­ing courses per annum • Recruit 6 volun­teer rangers pa (30 by 2022) 500 days of annu­al volun­teer­ing by 2020	Annu­al report LEAD­ER and PFA fund­ing ends 2020⁄21	Pro­ject has trained 38 Volun­teer rangers with most re-enga­ging post Cov­id-19 with poten­tial for a wider range of work sup­port­ing CNPA rangers. Recruit­ment restar­ted post Cov­id with activ­ity to attract new batch of volun­teer rangers under way Aug/​Sep 2022. Con­tin­ued engage­ment with part­ners across the park to grow the range of envir­on­ment­al volun­teer­ing oppor­tun­it­ies. CNPA volun­teer­ing review com­pleted autumn 2021 and find­ings being used to plan future activity	Green
	5f.	Bet­ter co-ordin­a­tion and pro­mo­tion of pub­lic trans­port and act­ive travel			2018: Stake­hold­er engage­ment 2019- design agreed and fun­drais­ing 2020- con­struct in line with hos­pit­al pro­ject end 2021	Use of elec­tric bikes con­tin­ues to be trailed through LEAD­ER fund­ing. Com­munit­ies of Lag­gan, Kin­gussie, Dul­nain Bridge and Grant­own have Sus­trans fund­ing to devel­op act­ive travel pro­pos­als with cap­it­al in place to con­struct a NMU link from Grant­own to Dul­nain along A95. Trans­port Scot­land announced pre­ferred option for Aviemore to Car­rbridge NMU in autumn 2021. Pub­lic exhib­i­tions held spring 2022. Fund­ing secured (NLHF & Sus­trans) for devel­op­ment of trans­port pro­jects. Devel­op­ment phase com­menced 2021.	Green
	5g.	Improv­ing oppor­tun­it­ies for act­ive travel in Aviemore that deliv­er improved trans­port con­nec­tions for vis­it­ors and residents	Act­ive Aviemore act­ive travel project	Redesign of Grampi­an Road with act­ive travel link by 2021 Upgrade key off road paths to new hos­pit­al site by 2021	Keep under review with regards to Brexit timetable	Trans­port Scot­land lead­ing the devel­op­ment of a new multi-use path between Aviemore and Car­rbridge. New timetable for deliv­ery of A9 dualling awaited.	Green
	6a.	Con­tinu­ing to deliv­er exist­ing out­door learn­ing pro­grammes; John Muir Award and Juni­or Rangers	John Muir Award Juni­or Ranger Programmes	3000 Awards pa 5 Juni­or Ranger programmes	Yearly tar­gets met. Ongo­ing commitment	Due to Cov­id-19 in 2020 a total of 972 John Muir Awards were com­pleted, con­sid­er­ably down on nor­mal. This has now restar­ted but with a focus on groups with­in the Nation­al Park.	Green
6. Learn­ing and Inclusion	6b.	Provid­ing an oppor­tun­ity for chil­dren across Scot­land to vis­it the Cairngorms Nation­al Park dur­ing their school life to learn about and con­nect with the Park in con­junc­tion with Nation­al Nature Reserves and Loch Lomond and the Trossachs Nation­al Park	Travel Grant	Increased vis­its to NP by schools and hard to reach groups. 2017 – 18 to date 28 School groups 17 com­munity groups	Budget fully com­mit­ted for 2017 – 18	CNPA Rangers con­tac­ted sec­ond­ary schools and part­ner Ranger Ser­vices to restart Juni­or Ranger activ­it­ies. Under­taken dur­ing Autumn 2021 and Spring 2022. The travel grant was put on hold dur­ing the pan­dem­ic but now back up and run­ning in early 2022.	Green
	6c.	Devel­op­ing and pro­mot­ing learn­ing resources and train­ing oppor­tun­it­ies that make it easi­er for edu­ca­tion pro­viders to use the Nation­al Park	Cairngorms Learn­ing Zone Online edu­ca­tion resources New Lit­er­acy and Gael­ic resource	Main­tain up to date inform­a­tion on web­sites. Devel­op I new resource per year	New resource March 2018	Merryn Glover con­tac­ted primary schools in the Park and ran cre­at­ive writ­ing work­shops based on the Shared Stor­ies Pro­ject. Sup­port to Story­lands pro­ject to see it con­tin­ued in 2022. Green Recov­ery Fund has helped sup­port Coun­tryside Learn­ing Scot­land to pro­mote Path­ways to Rur­al Work pro­ject. Still under way until autumn 2022. Addi­tion­al cul­tur­al her­it­age resources provided to schools via Badenoch Pro­ject. Covered by 6a — f	Green
	6d.	Rais­ing aware­ness and under­stand­ing of the Park and the issues and choices involved in man­age­ment of the Park					Green
	6e.	Cre­at­ing a ​‘Park for All’ by redu­cing bar­ri­ers and inspir­ing a diversity of people to engage with and care for their Nation­al Park through lifelong learning	3 year Com­munity Lead­er­ship Pro­ject. Inclus­ive Cairngorms	12 new com­munity lead­ers trained. Increased volun­teer­ing and vis­its to NP by hard to reach groups 2 Inclus­ive Cairngorms meet­ings per year	Final report and eval­u­ation June 2018	Cairngorms Equal­it­ies Advis­ory For­um meet­ing reg­u­larly and provid­ing advice on key park issues includ­ing NP Part­ner­ship Plan Pro­gramme under way to intro­duce a wider range of people to the coun­tryside by work­ing with third sec­tor organ­isa­tions, cov­er­ing trans­port costs and provid­ing a safe and pos­it­ive exper­i­ence volun­teer­ing for nature in the Nation­al Park. Green space event at Loch Insh Aug 2022. Out­door Fest­iv­al for All held in Octo­ber 2021 at Glenmore.	Green
	6f.	Using volun­teer­ing and phys­ic­al activ­ity to pro­mote learn­ing and inclusion	Met through Pri­or­it­ies 5e, 6a, 6b, 6c and 6e			Met through Pri­or­it­ies 5e, 6a, 6b, 6c and 6e

Rur­al Development

Pri­or­ity	No.	Agenda for Action	Key Work Areas	Out­come	Mile­stones & End Date	Deliv­ery Against 5‑year Out­comes	RAG Assess­ment of Deliv­ery of Outcome
7. Hous­ing	7a.	Redu­cing the pro­por­tion of second homes in new devel­op­ments by ensur­ing that new hous­ing devel­op­ment is tar­geted at meet­ing loc­al needs as far as possible	Devel­op­ment of next LDP, policies and place-mak­ing, deliv­ery programme	New LDP	Pro­posed Plan 2019 Plan Adop­ted 2021 Plan Deliv­ery 2021	LDP was adop­ted on 26 March 2021 and includes policies requir­ing 45% afford­able hous­ing in new devel­op­ment in Aviemore, Bal­later, Brae­mar and Blair Atholl, and 25% in oth­er communities.	Green
	7b.	Max­im­ising the pro­por­tion of new hous­ing that is afford­able in perpetuity	Devel­op­ment of next LDP, policies and place-mak­ing, deliv­ery programme	New LDP	Pro­posed Plan 2019 Plan Adop­ted 2021 Plan Deliv­ery 2021	LDP was adop­ted on 26 March 2021 and includes policies requir­ing 45% afford­able hous­ing in new devel­op­ment in Aviemore, Bal­later, Brae­mar and Blair Atholl, and 25% in oth­er com­munit­ies. The CNPA gran­ted detailed plan­ning per­mis­sion for 216 afford­able units dur­ing 2017 – 2022 and 175 afford­able units were completed.	Green
	7c.	Identi­fy­ing sites in the next Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan where the afford­able hous­ing con­tri­bu­tion will be more than the nor­mal nation­al max­im­um of 25% because of acute afford­ab­il­ity pres­sures and the short­age of supply	Devel­op­ment of next LDP, policies and place-mak­ing, deliv­ery programme	New LDP	Pro­posed Plan 2019 Plan Adop­ted 2021 Plan Deliv­ery 2021	LDP was adop­ted on 26 March 2021 and includes policies requir­ing 45% afford­able hous­ing in new devel­op­ment in Aviemore, Bal­later, Brae­mar and Blair Atholl, and 25% in oth­er communities.	Green
	7d.	Using the next Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan to man­age the nature of new open mar­ket hous­ing so it is bet­ter tar­geted towards loc­al needs (eg by seek­ing a great­er mix of house types and sizes, with an emphas­is towards smal­ler homes in new developments	Devel­op­ment of next LDP, policies and place-mak­ing, deliv­ery programme	New LDP	Pro­posed Plan 2019 Plan Adop­ted 2021 Plan Deliv­ery 2021	LDP was adop­ted on 26 March 2021 and includes policies requir­ing seek­ing smal­ler houses to reflect loc­al needs	Green
	7e.	Apply­ing flex­ible plan­ning policies to pro­mote major­ity afford­able hous­ing devel­op­ments and encour­age the use of innov­at­ive deliv­ery mod­els to max­im­ise the num­ber of afford­able homes that are built	Devel­op­ment of next LDP, policies and place-mak­ing, deliv­ery programme	New LDP Hous­ing devel­op­ments with more that 25% afford­able hous­ing and	Pro­posed Plan 2019 Plan Adop­ted 2021 Plan Deliv­ery 2021	Both LDP 2015 and newly adop­ted LDP 2021 include flex­ible afford­able hous­ing policies which are being used to pur­sue afford­able hous­ing projects	Green
	7f.	Tar­get­ing pub­lic sec­tor fund­ing towards the Nation­al Park and to sites with the greatest poten­tial for deliv­er­ing afford­able housing	Devel­op­ment of next LDP, policies and place-mak­ing, deliv­ery programme	Hous­ing devel­op­ments with more than 25% afford­able housing	Pro­posed Plan 2019 Plan Adop­ted 2021 Plan Delivery