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Draft Minutes of the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Meeting

Held at Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity HQ, Grant­own on Spey

Hybrid 14 June 2024 at 10.00am

Present:

Chris Beat­tie (Plan­ning Con­vener) Sandy Brem­ner Elean­or Mack­in­tosh (Deputy Plan­ning Con­vener) Peter Cos­grove Kenny Deans Paul Gibb Rus­sell Jones John Kirk Lauren MacCallum

Vir­tu­al

Geva Black­ett Dr Han­nah Grist Xan­der McDade Dr Fiona McLean Steve Mickle­wright Ann Ross Derek Ross Peter Fer­guson, Harp­er MacLeod LLP

Apo­lo­gies

Jack­ie Brier­ton Bill Lob­ban Duncan Miller

In Attend­ance

Gav­in Miles, Dir­ect­or of Plan­ning and Place Emma Bryce, Plan­ning Man­ager, Devel­op­ment Man­ager Sarah Fletch­er, Plan­ning Officer, Devel­op­ment Plan­ning and Envir­on­ment­al Advice Dan Har­ris, Plan­ning Man­ager, For­ward Plan­ning and Ser­vice Improve­ment Kar­en John­stone, Clerk to the Board

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Agenda Item 1 and 2

Wel­come and Apologies

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

Agenda Item 3

Declar­a­tions of Interest

1. Rus­sell Jones declared an interest on Item 6 as it has been dis­cussed at High­land Coun­cil Plan­ning Com­mit­tee which he also sits on.
2. Derek Ross declared an Interest on Item 6 as pre­vi­ously made com­ments in nation­al press about the cumu­lat­ive effect and impact of wind farms on the landscape.

Agenda Item 4

Minutes of Pre­vi­ous Meet­ing and Mat­ters Arising

1. The minutes of the pre­vi­ous meet­ing on 26 April 2024 held at Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity, Grant­own on Spey and Hybrid were approved with no amendments.
2. Mat­ters Arising: a) Author­ity del­eg­ated to officers to take enforce­ment action to pre­vent fur­ther unau­thor­ised devel­op­ment of the site if required. b) Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Con­vener to write to the applic­ant to con­vey the committee’s sig­ni­fic­ant dis­ap­point­ment at the ret­ro­spect­ive nature of the applic­a­tion. Completed

Agenda Item 5

Applic­a­tion for Detailed Plan­ning Per­mis­sion 2024/0005/DET (29/05974/FUL) Erec­tion of 6 no. hous­ing units (3 blocks of semi-detached hous­ing) at Land 65M South of 22 Ker­row Drive, Kingussie.

1. Item 5 was not con­sidered as officers had been informed of a change to the con­text of the applic­a­tion that would change the con­tent of the papers prepared.

10.05am Rus­sell Jones and Derek Ross left the room ahead of Item 6.

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Agenda Item 6

Dell 2 Wind­farm, 2024/0068/PAC (ECU00003440) Recom­mend­a­tion: no objection

1. Sarah Fletch­er, Plan­ning Officer, Devel­op­ment Plan­ning and Envir­on­ment­al Advice presen­ted the paper to the committee.

2. The Com­mit­tee were invited to ask for clar­ity, and the fol­low­ing points were raised: a) A board mem­ber sought clar­ity on the impacts of the lights. Sarah Fletch­er, Plan­ning Officer explained that the lights are 200 can­delas, how­ever they will be dimmed auto­mat­ic­ally if they are seen bey­ond 5km. As the Park is 8km away, this should have very little effect on our dark skies.

3. The Com­mit­tee were invited to dis­cuss the report. The fol­low­ing points were raised: a) Board Mem­bers thanked the officer for the clar­ity in the report and for the break­down of the effects and impacts this would have on us.

4. The Com­mit­tee approved the application.

5. Action Points arising: none

10.31am Derk Ross and Rus­sell Jones returned to join the committee.

Agenda Item 7

AOCB

1. Gav­in Miles, Dir­ect­or of Plan­ning and Place noted that they had received noti­fic­a­tion of an appeal against the enforce­ment notice served by the Park Author­ity on unau­thor­ised devel­op­ment in Tolquhonie woods near Car­rbridge. Officers will be respond­ing to the appeal with the help of our leg­al advisers.

2. Gav­in Miles, Dir­ect­or of Plan­ning and Place updated the board that both new Seni­or Plan­ners have star­ted in the posts since the last plan­ning com­mit­tee. Colin Bry­ans star­ted a few weeks ago in the Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment team and Jeff Pyrah star­ted this week in the For­ward Plan­ning team, both were welcomed.

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1. The Com­mit­tee Con­vener raised a motion to move to a con­fid­en­tial session.

The pub­lic busi­ness of the meet­ing con­cluded at 10.33am

Date of the next meet­ing is 9 August 2024