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Approved Minutes of the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Meet­ing Held at Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity HQ, Grant­own on Spey Hybrid 22 Septem­ber 2023 at 10.00am

Present Gaen­er Rodger (Plan­ning Con­vener) Elean­or Mack­in­tosh (Deputy Plan­ning Con­vener) Kenny Deans Rus­sell Jones Sandy Brem­ner (Board Con­vener) Fiona McLean Lauren Mac­Cal­lum Chris Beat­tie Paul Gibb Peter Cos­grove Xan­der McDade Bill Lobban

Vir­tu­al Douglas McAdam Han­nah Grist Ann Ross Steve Mickle­wright Derek Ross Geva Blackett

In Attend­ance Gav­in Miles, Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning Peter Fer­guson, Harp­er MacLeod LLP Emma Bryce, Plan­ning Officer (Devel­op­ment Man­ager) Emma Green­lees, Plan­ning Sup­port Officer James Ade, Clerk to the Board

Apo­lo­gies John Kirk Geva Blackett

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Agenda Item 1&2 Wel­come and Apologies

1. The Con­vener wel­comed all present includ­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic and apo­lo­gies were noted.

Agenda Item 3 Declar­a­tions of Interest

1. Sandy Brem­ner declared an interest in Item 5. Reas­on: A fin­an­cial interest as he is chair of the River Dee Trust which had received a char­it­able dona­tion from the applic­ant. He would leave the room for Item 5.

Agenda Item 4 Minutes of Pre­vi­ous Meet­ing and Mat­ters Arising

1. The minutes of the pre­vi­ous meet­ing on 11 August 2023 held at Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity, Grant­own on Spey were approved with no amendments.

2. Gav­in Miles informed the Com­mit­tee that officers has been in con­tact with the oper­at­ors of Bad­aguish Out­door Centre who have now removed inform­a­tion on web­site that dogs are wel­come on the site.

Sandy Brem­ner left the room at 10.07am

Agenda Item 5 Detailed Plan­ning Per­mis­sion 2023/0229/DET (APP/2023/0616) Refur­bish­ment of hotel to ser­viced apart­ments with ground floor events space and cinema room, erec­tion of leis­ure facil­it­ies, change of use of dwell­ing­house to offices, con­ver­sion of dairy build­ing to staff accom­mod­a­tion, con­ver­sion of mews to artist stu­dio, replace exist­ing foot­bridge, and erec­tion of asso­ci­ated ancil­lary buildings

Applic­a­tion for Lis­ted Build­ing Con­sent 2023/0221/LBC (APP/2023/0867) Refur­bish­ment of Hotel to Ser­viced Apart­ments with Ground Floor Events Space and Cinema Room Both at Inver­cauld Arms Hotel, Brae­mar, Bal­later, Aber­deen­shire, AB35 5YR Recom­mend­a­tion: Approve sub­ject to conditions

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1. Emma Bryce, Plan­ning Man­ager (Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment) presen­ted the paper to the Committee.

2. The Com­mit­tee were invited to ask for clar­ity, a) No points for clar­ity were sought.

3. Ben Addy of Mox­on Archi­tects addressed the Committee.

4. The Com­mit­tee were invited to ask for clar­ity. The fol­low­ing points were raised: a) Mem­bers ques­tioned wheth­er there was suf­fi­cient staff accom­mod­a­tion. Ben Addy respond that this pro­ject will add 10 new beds which, along with Art­farm staff bed num­bers, will be suf­fi­cient for the busi­ness not just the Inver­cauld Arms Hotel. b) A Mem­ber ques­tioned if there will be adequate onsite park­ing. Ben Addy replied that there will be 70 car park­ing spaces, more than the Aber­deen­shire roads depart­ment requires the site to have. c) Mem­bers sought clar­ity on the con­straints on the bridge’s access­ib­il­ity. Ben Addy, advised that the main con­straint was on the west side of the bridge which is on someone else’s land. There is space for improved steps but not a ramp.

5. The Com­mit­tee were invited to dis­cuss the report. The fol­low­ing point was raised: a) Mem­bers wel­comed the sym­path­et­ic res­tor­a­tion of the build­ing which will be an asset to the Nation­al Park along with the use of a renew­able energy source.

6. The Com­mit­tee unan­im­ously approved the applic­a­tion for both the detailed plan­ning per­mis­sion and lis­ted build­ing as per the recom­mend­a­tion in the Officer’s report.

7. Action Point arising: None

Sandy Brem­ner re-entered the room at 10.45am

Agenda Item 6 Detailed Plan­ning Per­mis­sion 2023/0087/DET (22/01873/APP) Change of use and alter­a­tions to form new camp­site, shower facil­ity, hard stand­ing and foul drain­age at The Old Mart, Con­glass Lane, Tomin­toul, Moray Recom­mend­a­tion: Approve sub­ject to conditions

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

2. The Com­mit­tee were invited to ask for clar­ity and the fol­low­ing points were raised: a) A Mem­ber ques­tioned wheth­er there will be any EV char­ging points. The Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning respon­ded that there would not be EV char­ging points only the elec­tric hook-up points. b) A Mem­ber sought clar­ity on wheth­er there are any oth­er camp­sites in Tomin­toul. The Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning informed the Com­mit­tee that the Bowl­ing Club allow motorhomes and cara­vans to stop over and stay on their land. The Deputy Con­vener added that the Bowl­ing Club were con­cerned about the impacts the new cara­van site would have on their income. c) A Mem­ber ques­tioned wheth­er Scot­tish Water should be obliged to give a more com­pre­hens­ive response. The Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning respon­ded that Scot­tish Water are not com­pelled to respond to applic­a­tions and won’t neces­sar­ily know at the point of an applic­a­tion what infra­struc­ture con­straints there may be in the future when phys­ic­al con­nec­tions are requested.

3. Oliv­er Giles, Tomin­toul and Glen­liv­et Devel­op­ment Trust as applic­ant addressed the Committee.

4. The Com­mit­tee were invited to ask for clar­ity. The fol­low­ing points were raised: a) The Deputy Con­vener sought clar­ity on where the recep­tion point would be. Oliv­er Giles cla­ri­fied that the site will be pre­b­ook only and the recep­tion will be at the dis­cov­ery centre in the vil­lage with an inter­com and bar­ri­er sys­tem at the entrance to the site. b) The Deputy Con­vener asked how the light from camper­vans would be man­aged in the Dark Skies area. Oliv­er Giles respon­ded that the Dark Skies sea­son runs from Octo­ber to April and the camp­site will be sum­mer only so there will be no over­lap and that the Trust was a strong sup­port­er of the Dark Skies Park. c) A Mem­ber quer­ied what dis­cus­sions had taken place between the Trust and the Bowl­ing Club. Oliv­er Giles respon­ded that the Trust had writ­ten to the Bowl­ing Club at the start of the pro­ject and the Bowl­ing Club brought the site to the atten­tion of the Trust.

5. The Com­mit­tee were invited to dis­cuss the report. The fol­low­ing points were raised: a) Mem­bers raised that com­munit­ies in the Nation­al Parks have high­lighted the issues around the lack of facil­it­ies for camper­vans in the Nation­al Park and

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approv­ing this plan­ning per­mis­sion would allow a space for people to pitch respons­ibly, help­ing with this issue. Addi­tion­ally, the site would have a pos­it­ive eco­nom­ic impact on the area. b) A Mem­ber raised con­cerns that there are no EV char­ging points on the site. The Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning sug­ges­ted adding a con­di­tion to the applic­a­tion requir­ing the applic­ant to sub­mit details of elec­tric vehicle char­ging to the Park Author­ity. c) Mem­bers raised con­cerns over the extra bur­den that the site would put on the community’s water sup­ply. The Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning respon­ded that a con­di­tion could be added that requires the applic­ant to provide inform­a­tion demon­strates that Scot­tish Water will per­mit a con­nec­tion pri­or to devel­op­ment com­men­cing. Mem­bers were sat­is­fied with the amendment.

1. The Com­mit­tee approved with the addi­tion­al con­di­tions of sub­mis­sion of details on EV char­ging and impact on water supply.

AOCB

1. The Con­vener informed the Com­mit­tee that it was her last Plan­ning Com­mit­tee meet­ing, thank­ing the Deputy Con­vener and Officers for their work and guidance.

2. Date of next meet­ing: 10 Novem­ber 2023

The Com­mit­tee Con­vener raised a motion to move to a con­fid­en­tial ses­sion to con­sider the con­fid­en­tial minutes for on 22 August 2023 plan­ning Committee.

The pub­lic busi­ness of the meet­ing con­cluded at 11.36am.