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Approved Minutes of the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Meet­ing Held at Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity HQ, Grant­own on Spey Hybrid 9 June 2023 at 10.45am

Present Gaen­er Rodger (Plan­ning Con­vener) Elean­or Mack­in­tosh (Deputy Plan­ning Con­vener) Kenny Deans Janet Hunter John Kirk Steve Mickle­wright Douglas McAdam Xan­der McDade (Board Con­vener) Derek Ross Chris Beat­tie Paul Gibb Rus­sell Jones Han­nah Grist Lauren Mac­Cal­lum Ann Ross Fiona McLean Sandy Bremner

In Attend­ance Gav­in Miles, Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning Mur­ray Fer­guson, Dir­ect­or of Plan­ning and Rur­al Devel­op­ment Peter Fer­guson, Harp­er MacLeod LLP Ed Swales, Plan­ning Officer (Devel­op­ment Man­ager) Stephanie Wade, Plan­ning Officer (Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment) Emma Green­lees, Plan­ning Sup­port Officer Catri­ona Strang, Clerk to the Board Dav­id Keith Garry Cur­ren Michael Hogg, RS McLeod Ltd

Apo­lo­gies Bill Lob­ban Geva Blackett

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Agenda Item 1&2 Wel­come and introduction.

1. The Con­vener wel­comed all present includ­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic and apo­lo­gies were noted.
2. Should a mem­ber wish to have a motion they will be joined by Peter Fer­guson in a sep­ar­ate room.

Agenda Item 3 Declar­a­tions of interest

1. John Kirk declared an interest in Item 7 Reas­on: Busi­ness rela­tion­ship with applicant.

Agenda Item 4 Minutes of Pre­vi­ous Meet­ing and mat­ters arising

1. The minutes of the pre­vi­ous meet­ing, 28 April 2023, held at Carin­gorms Nation­al Park Author­ity, Grant­own on Spey were approved with no amendments.
2. The Plan­ning Con­vener motioned to move to a con­fid­en­tial ses­sion on con­clu­sion of the pub­lic meeting.

Agenda Item 5 Detailed Plan­ning Per­mis­sion 2023/0019/DET (22/05913/FUL) Erec­tion of 3 flats, omis­sion of 3 houses, relo­ca­tion of foot­path and asso­ci­ated works (amend­ment to 05/00209/REMBS) at Horse field to North of Scand­inavi­an Vil­lage, The Aviemore Centre, Grampi­an Road, Aviemore, High­land Recom­mend­a­tion: Approve sub­ject to conditions

1. Stephanie Wade, Plan­ning Officer (Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment) presen­ted the paper to the committee.
2. The Com­mit­tee were invited to ask points of clar­ity, the fol­low­ing point was raised: a) A mem­ber asked why the pro­posed new path was not suit­able for wheel­chairs or push­chairs. The plan­ning officer con­firmed there had been much dis­cus­sion on this point with the agent and out­door access team, but due to the con­straints of an exist­ing drain­ing ditch and the path rise of 4m over a short dis­tance, steps would be required. Dav­id Keith con­firmed there would be sig­ni­fic­ant changes to

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the land­scape if the drain­ing ditch was moved. It was noted that oth­er path links to the Aviemore orbit­al path were access­ible. b) A mem­ber noted that there are no con­di­tions on restric­tion of hol­i­day lets. Gav­in Miles, Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning con­firmed that plan­ning applic­a­tions would be required to change the use of flats from res­id­en­tial to short term let­ting use.

1. The Com­mit­tee were invited to dis­cuss the report, the fol­low­ing points were raised: a) A mem­bers thanked the applic­ant for provid­ing the clear visu­al­isa­tions of the pro­pos­al and noted that they would pre­ferred to have seen an access­ible path.

2. The Com­mit­tee approved the applic­a­tion as per the recom­mend­a­tion in the Officer’s report.

3. Action Point arising — none.

Dav­ie Keith left the room at 11.16.

Agenda Item 6 Detailed Plan­ning Per­mis­sion 2022/0270/DET (22/003073/FUL) Erec­tion of 19 houses, 29 Dulicht Court, Grant­own on Spey, High­land Recom­mend­a­tion: Approve sub­ject to con­di­tions Ed Swales, Mon­it­or­ing and Enforce­ment Officer

1. Ed Swales, Mon­it­or­ing and Enforce­ment Officer, presen­ted the paper to the committee.

2. The Com­mit­tee were invited to ask points of clar­ity, the fol­low­ing point was raised: b) A mem­ber asked at what stage dur­ing the devel­op­ment would the new SUDS basin be com­pleted. Applic­ant, Michael Hogg con­firmed that most of the pro­posed devel­op­ment would con­nect to the exist­ing SUDS basin and the pro­posed SUDS basing would serve the final phase of devel­op­ment on lower ground. c) Con­cern over sur­face water man­age­ment dur­ing con­struc­tion was raised. Gav­in Miles, Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning, con­firmed that pro­posed con­di­tions to man­age sur­face water dur­ing the con­struc­tion phase should be sufficient.

3. Garry Cur­ran, a neigh­bour to the devel­op­ment presen­ted to the committee.

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1. The Com­mit­tee were invited to dis­cuss the report, the fol­low­ing points were raised: a) A mem­ber asked if we could insist the final road sur­face is fin­ished and that works are com­pleted. b) Gav­in Miles, Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning con­firmed a Breach of Con­di­tion Notice had been served to require com­ple­tion of roads sur­faces to exist­ing prop­er­ties but noted that it was not a rel­ev­ant con­sid­er­a­tion to the determ­in­a­tion of the cur­rent plan­ning application.

2. The Com­mit­tee approved the applic­a­tion as per the recom­mend­a­tion in the Officer’s report sub­ject to con­di­tions and a fin­an­cial con­tri­bu­tion to act­ive travel with­in Grant­own on Spey.

Garry Cur­ren Left the meet­ing at 11.43. John Kirk left the meet­ing at 11.43.

Agenda Item 7 Detailed Plan­ning Per­mis­sion 2023/0145/DET (23/00349/FLL) Renew­al of per­mis­sion 19/02111/FLL, Erec­tion of art gal­lery build­ing, recon­fig­ure car park, install­a­tion of 4 air source heat pumps, land­scap­ing, and asso­ci­ated works at House of Bru­ar, Pit­agow­an, Blair Atholl, Pit­lo­chry, PH18 5TW. Recom­mend­a­tion: Approve sub­ject to conditions

1. Stephanie Wade, Plan­ning Officer (Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment) presen­ted the paper to the Committee.

2. The Com­mit­tee were invited to ask points of clar­ity, the fol­low­ing point was raised: a) There were no points of clarification.

3. The Com­mit­tee were invited to dis­cuss the report, the fol­low­ing points were raised: a) It was noted that the developer is a major employ­er in the area and mem­bers would be happy to approve. b) A mem­ber asked if swift boxes would be included. Stephanie Wade, Plan­ning Officer con­firmed that there is a con­di­tion on biod­iversity enhance­ment on the development.

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1. The Com­mit­tee approved the applic­a­tion as per the recom­mend­a­tion in the Officer’s report.

2. Action Point arising: — none.

Agenda Item 8 AOC

1. Date of next meet­ing: 11 August 2023

The pub­lic busi­ness of the meet­ing con­cluded at 11.51.

Motion accep­ted to move to con­fid­en­tial business.