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Approved Minutes of the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Meet­ing Held at Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity HQ, Grant­own on Spey

Hybrid 10 Novem­ber 2023 at 9.30am

Present Elean­or Mack­in­tosh (Deputy Plan­ning Con­vener and Act­ing Con­vener) Derek Ross Chris Beat­tie Kenny Deans Paul Gibb Rus­sell Jones Peter Cos­grove Sandy Brem­ner (Board Con­vener) Lauren Mac­Cal­lum John Kirk

Vir­tu­al Fiona McLean Xan­der McDade Han­nah Grist Ann Ross

Apo­lo­gies Geva Black­ett Steve Mickle­wright Bill Lobban

In Attend­ance Gav­in Miles, Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning Peter Fer­guson, Harp­er MacLeod LLP Emma Bryce, Plan­ning Man­ager (Devel­op­ment Man­ager) Edward Swales, Mon­it­or­ing & Enforce­ment Officer (Devel­op­ment Man­ager) Kath­er­ine Don­ach­ie, Plan­ning Officer (Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment) Emma Green­lees, Plan­ning Sup­port Officer James Ade, Clerk to the Board

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Agenda Item 1&2 Wel­come and Apologies

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

Agenda Item 3 Declar­a­tions of Interest

1. There were no declar­a­tions of interest declared.

Agenda Item 4 Minutes of Pre­vi­ous Meet­ing and Mat­ters Arising

1. The minutes of the pre­vi­ous meet­ing on 22 Septem­ber 2023 held at Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity, Grant­own on Spey were approved with an amend­ment to ensure the attend­ance to included Lauren MacCallum.

Agenda Item 5 Plan­ning Per­mis­sion in Prin­ciple 2023/0030/PPP (22/06101/PIP) Res­id­en­tial devel­op­ment, staff accom­mod­a­tion and infra­struc­ture at the Aviemore Centre, Grampi­an Road, Aviemore Recom­mend­a­tion: Approve sub­ject to conditions

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

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

3. The Com­mit­tee were invited to dis­cuss the report. The fol­low­ing point was raised: a) A mem­ber raised con­cerns around how the flow of traffic would be affected at peak times dur­ing the sum­mer. The Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning respon­ded that High­land Council’s trans­port plan­ning team have said with the inform­a­tion they have been provided demon­strates the road net­work can accom­mod­ate the traffic and noted that the detail of the plan­ning per­mis­sion could only be approved if the

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applic­ant applies with fur­ther inform­a­tion on the detail of the road net­work with­in the site and how it will link with the exist­ing network.

1. The Com­mit­tee approved the applic­a­tion for plan­ning per­mis­sion in prin­ciple as per the recom­mend­a­tion in the Officer’s report.

2. Action Point arising: None.

Agenda Item 6 Detailed Plan­ning Per­mis­sion 2023/0267/DET (23/02656/FUL) Erec­tion of dis­til­lery, 3No. ware­houses, access, park­ing, offices, and bore­holes at U220 250M South­east of Spey Dam, Lag­gan Recom­mend­a­tion: Approve sub­ject to conditions

1. Kath­er­ine Don­ach­ie, Plan­ning Officer (Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment) presen­ted the paper to the Committee.

2. The Com­mit­tee were invited to ask for clar­ity and the fol­low­ing points were raised: a) A mem­ber asked for clar­ity on the pro­posed envir­on­ment­al enhance­ments wheth­er con­di­tion on the inclu­sion of nest boxes for goldeneye, due to the site’s nation­al import­ance to the goldeneye pop­u­la­tion. Kath­er­ine Don­ach­ie respon­ded that this could be added to the con­di­tions. b) A mem­ber sought clar­ity on the nat­ive spe­cies pro­posed for new wood­land plant­ing and asked if it would relate to the exist­ing adja­cent trees. The Plan­ning Officer respon­ded that would be required via conditions.

3. The applic­ant, John Har­vey McDonough, and the agent, Dav­id Cam­bell, addressed the Committee.

4. The Com­mit­tee were invited to ask for clar­ity. The fol­low­ing points were raised: a) A mem­ber sought clar­ity on who owns the private access road and if there was a form­al arrange­ment on how it will be main­tained. The applic­ant respon­ded that they owned the track and there is an agree­ment with SSE and Forestry and Land Scot­land on how it will be main­tained. b) A mem­ber raised Com­munity Coun­cil con­cerns around the form­al­isa­tion of a safe bus stop and wheth­er this could be addressed in the applic­a­tion. The Plan­ning Officer respon­ded that con­di­tion 15 covered this concern.

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1. The Com­mit­tee were invited to dis­cuss the report. The fol­low­ing points were raised: a) A mem­ber raised that they sup­por­ted but would like a con­di­tion cov­er­ing the use of stones from the chapel as they are a his­tor­ic asset. The plan­ning officer respon­ded that this was covered by con­di­tion 24.

2. The Com­mit­tee approved the detailed for plan­ning per­mis­sion as per the recom­mend­a­tion in the Officer’s report.

Agenda Item 7 Detailed Plan­ning Per­mis­sion 2023/0285/DET (23/02933/FUL) Vary the ces­sa­tion date of Con­di­tion 1 from pre­vi­ous per­mis­sion 2020/0080/DET for the form­a­tion of bund­ing, pro­vi­sion of ser­vices and lay­ing out of access road, hard­stand­ing, and tar­mac area with asso­ci­ated land­scape at Land 165M SW Of Hillview, Kin­craig Recom­mend­a­tion: Approve sub­ject to conditions

1. Edward Swales, Enforce­ment and Mon­it­or­ing Officer, (Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment) presen­ted the paper to the Committee.

2. The Com­mit­tee were invited to ask for clar­ity and the fol­low­ing points were raised: a) No points for cla­ri­fic­a­tion were raised.

3. The Com­mit­tee approved the detailed for plan­ning per­mis­sion as per the recom­mend­a­tion in the Officer’s report.

Agenda Item 8 Detailed Plan­ning Per­mis­sion 2023/0357/DET (APP/2023/1562) Con­struc­tion of New Link Footpath/​Cycle Route at Deeside Way Foot­path, A93 Bal­later to Brae­mar Road, Brae­mar Recom­mend­a­tion: Approve sub­ject to conditions

1. Edward Swales, Enforce­ment and Mon­it­or­ing Officer (Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment) presen­ted the paper to the Committee.

2. The Com­mit­tee were invited to ask for clar­ity and the fol­low­ing points were raised:

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a) A mem­ber sought assur­ances that parts of the path next to the road would have safe fen­cing. Gav­in Miles, Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning, con­firmed that the path sec­tions along­side the road would have post and rail fencing.

1. The Com­mit­tee were invited to dis­cuss the report. The fol­low­ing points were raised: a) A mem­ber raised that they believed it meets the community’s expect­a­tions, the path now just needs link­ing to the vil­lage. Head of Stra­tegic Plan­ning added that the pro­posed path would be access­ible to a wide range of people but that the nature of some gradi­ents would lim­it its access­ib­il­ity to some users.

2. The Com­mit­tee approved the detailed for plan­ning per­mis­sion as per the recom­mend­a­tion in the Officer’s report.

Agenda Item 9 Detailed Plan­ning Per­mis­sion 2023/0363/DET (23/03961/FUL) Con­struc­tion of 634m long ATV track for wood­land man­age­ment at Land 950M North of Crath­ie Lodge, Lag­gan Recom­mend­a­tion: Approve sub­ject to conditions

1. Edward Swales, Enforce­ment and Mon­it­or­ing Officer, (Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment) presen­ted the paper to the Committee.

2. The Com­mit­tee were invited to dis­cuss the report. The fol­low­ing points were raised: a) A mem­ber ques­tioned why the applic­a­tion only covered the bot­tom third of the pre-exist­ing forestry area. The Enforce­ment and Mon­it­or­ing Officer respon­ded that the applic­ant has applied for only the tracks that they require.

3. The Com­mit­tee approved the detailed plan­ning per­mis­sion as per the recom­mend­a­tion in the Officer’s report.

Agenda Item 10 For inform­a­tion Plan­ning Ser­vice Per­form­ance Update

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

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1. The Com­mit­tee were invited to dis­cuss the report. The fol­low­ing points were raised: a) Mem­bers thanked the Plan­ning team for anoth­er excel­lent report card, par­tic­u­larly under the pres­sures that the Plan­ning team are cur­rently facing.

2. The Com­mit­tee noted the paper, and the Act­ing Con­vener thanked the plan­ning team again for their work.

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 11.14am.