Appendix 6.3 – [redacted] email

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

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Appendix 6.3 Com­ments from , Lag­gan farm­ers Com­ments made by farm­er who atten­ded the Lag­gan meet­ing on the 12 Octo­ber 2023.

Response received by email on 25 Octo­ber 2023 after the licence applic­a­tion was sub­mit­ted, there­fore not included in the num­bers with­in the engage­ment report.

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Lag­gan is a very spe­cial but fra­gile place, its an isol­ated geo­graph­ic­al pock­et of excel­lent free drain­ing allu­vi­al sandy loam Macaulay Insti­tute grade 3(II) agri­cul­tur­al land. It is on the peri­phery in terms of farm­ing and com­munity. The landown­er­ship is unusu­al in that the major­ity of farms and crofts are own­er occu­pied and not exclus­ively large landown­ing interests

Allow­ing beavers to move into the Lag­gan par­ish will cause ser­i­ous dam­age to fen­cing, ditches and flood-banks, which the farming/​croft­ing com­munity could not fin­an­cially absorb, a burst flood-bank would be catastrophic.

I would ask that a no-go zone for beavers is estab­lished in the Lag­gan par­ish to pro­tect the flood plain, to pro­tect land-based com­munit­ies and their live­li­hoods. The Fish­er­ies Board have reques­ted no-go zones to pro­tect sal­mon smolts, I would ask for sim­il­ar no- go pro­tec­tion for loc­al people. Laggan