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Draft Minutes of Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Meeting

Held online

Held 08 Novem­ber 2024 at 11.00am

Present Chris Beat­tie (Con­vener) Sandy Brem­ner Dr Peter Cos­grove Paul Gibb Rus­sell Jones Bill Lob­ban Steve Mickle­wright Ann Ross Michael Wil­li­am­son Elean­or Mack­in­tosh (Deputy Con­vener) Geva Black­ett Kenny Deans Dr Han­nah Grist John Kirk Dr Fiona McLean Duncan Miller Derek Ross

Apo­lo­gies Jack­ie Brier­ton Lauren MacCallum

In Attend­ance Gav­in Miles, Dir­ect­or of Plan­ning and Place Dav­id Berry, Head of Plan­ning and Chief Plan­ning Officer Emma Bryce, Plan­ning Man­ager, Devel­op­ment Man­ager Kath­er­ine Don­nach­ie, Plan­ning Officer, Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment Edward Swales, Mon­it­or­ing and Enforce­ment Officer Peter Fer­guson, Harp­er MacLeod LLP Emma Green­lees, Plan­ning Sup­port Officer Kar­en John­stone, Clerk to the Board

Agenda Item 1 and 2 Wel­come and Apologies

1. The Plan­ning Con­vener wel­comed all present.

2. Apo­lo­gies were noted.

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Agenda Item 3 Declar­a­tions of Interest

1. Peter Cos­grove declared an interest in item 4 as he has worked with the cli­ent on the site doing eco­logy sur­veys there­fore would not take part in discussions.

Agenda Item 4 Minutes of pre­vi­ous meet­ing and mat­ters arising

1. The minutes of the pre­vi­ous meet­ing on 27 Septem­ber 2024 held at Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity, Grant­own on Spey and Hybrid were approved with no amendments.

2. Mat­ters Arising: a) There were no mat­ters arising

Peter Cos­grove left the meet­ing at 11.08am

Agenda Item 5

1. For Inform­a­tion PRE/2024/0026 Pro­pos­al of applic­a­tion notice for 35no. res­id­en­tial units at land adja­cent to Lettoch Road, 160M south of Lyn­stock Park, Nethy Bridge

2. Kath­er­ine Don­nach­ie, Plan­ning Officer, Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment presen­ted the paper to the committee.

3. The Com­mit­tee were invited to ask for clar­ity, and the fol­low­ing points were raised: a) A board mem­ber raised points to be con­sidered by the applic­ant: i. Lay­out of Sus­tain­able Urb­an Drain­age Sys­tems (SUDS) con­sid­er­ing the risk of flood and provid­ing a life­belt beside the SUDS pond. ii. Incor­por­at­ing a one-way valve in SUDS out­flow. iii. Clus­ter­ing Scots Pine in groups of 5 to 7 to allow a bet­ter chance for sur­viv­al. iv. Integ­rate afford­able hous­ing through­out the site.

4. The Com­mit­tee were invited to dis­cuss the report. The fol­low­ing points were raised: a) No fur­ther com­ments were made.

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1. The Com­mit­tee agreed the Officer’s recom­mend­a­tion to: a) Note the Pro­pos­al of Applic­a­tion Noti­fic­a­tion; b) Note the CNPA Officer’s pre-applic­a­tion advice on the issues to address; and c) Advise of any addi­tion­al rel­ev­ant issues to be addressed in any future applic­a­tion (these being the points noted at para­graph 8a) above)

2. Action Points arising: None

Peter Cos­grove returned at 11.18am

Agenda Item 6

1. For Inform­a­tion DPEA reporter’s decision on enforce­ment notice appeal ENA-001‑2005 Tolquhonie Woods, Carr-bridge, High­land, PH23 3NA

2. Dav­id Berry, Head of Plan­ning and Chief Plan­ning Officer presen­ted the paper to the committee.

John Kirk joined the meet­ing at 11.23am

1. The Com­mit­tee were invited to ask for clar­ity, and the fol­low­ing points were raised: a) A board mem­ber sought clar­ity if the landown­er was respons­ible for the cost of the remov­al. Peter Fer­guson, Harp­er MacLeod LLP con­firmed that the oblig­a­tion was on the landown­er to remove with­in a three-month peri­od. If not com­plied with, fur­ther action can be taken. b) A board mem­ber ques­tioned the pos­sib­il­ity of chan­ging a law allow­ing landown­ers to apply for a cer­ti­fic­ate of exemp­tion under cara­van licens­ing legis­la­tion con­tinu­ously over a long peri­od of time. Peter Fer­guson, Harp­er MacLeod LLP agreed that it would be worth explor­ing the wider issue with gov­ern­ment, how­ever noted it was a com­plic­ated issue. Dir­ect­or of Plan­ning and Place high­lighted that dis­cus­sions have already began and this may lead to a form­al let­ter being writ­ten to Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment. c) Cla­ri­fic­a­tion was sought regard­ing respons­ib­il­ity of Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment and UK Gov­ern­ment. Peter Fer­guson noted that the Cara­van Act legis­la­tion is UK wide, but that plan­ning legis­la­tion is devolved to Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment. Exemp­tions from cara­van licens­ing is there­fore a UK wide issue, but Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment have the

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poten­tial to change the legis­la­tion on per­mit­ted devel­op­ment rights for plan­ning pur­poses which poten­tially flow from cara­van license exemptions.

1. The Com­mit­tee were invited to dis­cuss the report. The fol­low­ing points were raised: a) No fur­ther com­ments were made.

2. Action Points arising: None

Agenda Item 7 AOCB

1. Scot­tish Min­is­ters’ decision received for Nethy Bridge, Sta­tion Yard devel­op­ment (2022/0305/DET) a) Plan­ning per­mis­sion approved sub­ject to con­di­tions b) Decision notice will be cir­cu­lated to com­mit­tee mem­bers after the meeting.

2. Tomin­toul Wig­wam site — An enforce­ment notice has been served to secure sur­fa­cing of first 15 metres of access track to devel­op­ment with a peri­od of time to resolve that. a) A board mem­ber ques­tioned the time scale giv­en, Head of Plan­ning and Chief Plan­ning Officer explained there will be a 6‑month time scale which will be monitored.

3. Con­vener of Plan­ning Com­mit­tee thanked Elean­or Mack­in­tosh the Deputy Plan­ning Con­vener on her final meet­ing for her out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tion, know­ledge, sup­port and assistance.

4. Motion to take next items in con­fid­en­tial session.

5. The pub­lic part of the meet­ing closed at 11.38am

6. Date of the next meet­ing is 13 Decem­ber 2024