231124CNPABdPaper2Appendix4VisitorInfastructureImprovementProgramme

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Ügh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh Form­al Board Paper 2 Appendix 4 24 Novem­ber 2023 Page 1 of 2

Appendix 4 – Vis­it­or infra­struc­ture Improve­ment Pro­gramme 2023/2024

Back­ground

The Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity budget, approved by the Board, allowed for 350k for Vis­it­or Man­age­ment: cap­it­al fin­an­cing to sup­port enhance­ments to vis­it­or facil­it­ies and improved vis­it­or exper­i­ence. In May 2023 Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity invited land man­agers to sub­mit Expres­sions of Interest for Vis­it­or Infra­struc­ture Improve­ment Pro­gramme (VIIP) funding.

Expres­sions of interest received

Table 1: Six Expres­sions of Interest were received by the dead­line in early June.

Pro­ject Pro­pos­al	Total Costs	VIIP Fund­ing agreed
Access­ible Nature at Abernethy	£105,000	£84,500
Lower Tilt Bridge	£7,500	£7,500
Mor­ven Access & Vis­it­or Centre	£45,950	£32,950
Cairngorm Moun­tain ski road cycle path	£24,000	£12,000
feas­ib­il­ity
Brae­mar- The vil­lage up to Queen’s	£35,000	£29,000
Drive via Hide Path Improvement
Falls of Bru­ar Path	£34,500	£24,150
Totals	£251,950	£190,100

The pro­posed pro­jects for fund­ing equate to £251,950 worth of invest­ment in the Park.

Oth­er pro­jects requir­ing investment:

Table 2 sets out addi­tion­al pro­jects iden­ti­fied through the Stra­tegic Tour­ism Infra­struc­ture Plan requir­ing invest­ment through VIIP fund­ing as well as pre­vi­ous VIIP pro­jects that required addi­tion­al funding

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Table 2: Oth­er pro­jects requir­ing investment

Pro­ject	Pro­ject sum­mary	Total Pro­ject Cost	Grant Offer CNPA
Brae­mar- Charters	Brae­mar to Kei­loch Path	£441,500	TBC
Chest Path
Grant­own- Burnfield	Refur­bished public	TBC	£10,000
Toi­lets	toi­lets in Grantown
Lag­gan Forest Trust	New blue moun­tain bike	£217,872	£10,000
New Blue Route	trail
High­land Council-	New pub­lic toi­lets in	£263,590	£20,000
Glen­more Toilets	Glen­more

Pro­jects assess­ment for ²⁰²³⁄₂₄

Each expres­sion of interest was assessed sep­ar­ately by two mem­bers of staff, each eval­u­at­ing the expres­sion of interest based upon cri­ter­ia set out in Table 3, each with equal weight­ing. An addi­tion­al assess­ment of deliv­ery risk was also included.

Table 3- Scor­ing criteria

Wel­come vis­it­ors and provide a high-	Reduces poten­tial con­flict	Pro­mote col­lab­or­a­tion across land	Provide bet­ter oppor­tun­it­ies	Deliv­ers improve­ments that are
qual­ity exper­i­ence while managing	between res­id­ents and visitors	man­age­ment and organisational	for every­one so the visitor	iden­ti­fied in the Strategic
their impacts	and / or between users	bound­ar­ies	pro­file is more diverse,	Tour­ism Infra­struc­ture Plan or
			espe­cially with regards to	the Man­aging for Vis­it­ors Plan
			people who are disabled