Approved Minutes of Meeting 22 February 2019

APPROVED COM­MIT­TEE MINUTES

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

APPROVED MINUTES OF THE PLAN­NING COM­MIT­TEE held at The Cairngorm Hotel, Aviemore on 22 Feb­ru­ary 2019 at 11.30am

Mem­bers Present Peter Argyle (Deputy Con­vener) Wil­lie McK­enna Rebecca Badger lan McLar­en Car­o­lyn Cad­dick Fiona McLean Pippa Had­ley Anne Rae Mac­don­ald Janet Hunter Wil­li­am Mun­ro Elean­or Mack­in­tosh (Con­vener) Gaen­er Rodger Douglas McAdam Derek Ross Xan­der McDade Judith Webb

In Attend­ance: Gav­in Miles, Head of Plan­ning & Com­munit­ies Peter Fer­guson, Leg­al Adviser, Harp­er MacLeod LLP Alix Hark­ness, Clerk to the Board Dot Har­ris, Plan­ning Admin­is­tra­tion & Sys­tems Officer

Apo­lo­gies: Geva Black­ett John Lath­am Dave Fallows

Agenda Items 1 & 2: Wel­come & Apologies

1. The Con­vener wel­comed all present and repor­ted that a use­ful site vis­it had taken place that morning.

2. Apo­lo­gies were noted.

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Agenda Item 3: Minutes & Mat­ters Arising from the Pre­vi­ous Meeting

1. The minutes of the pre­vi­ous meet­ing, 25 Janu­ary 2019, held in the Com­munity Hall Boat of Garten, were approved with the fol­low­ing amendment:

   • At Para 6 — Xan­der McDade’s interest was of an indir­ect nature.

2. There were no mat­ters arising.

3. The Con­vener provided an update on the Action Points from the pre­vi­ous meeting:

   • Action Point at Para 21i) In Hand – Amen­ity Notice for Spit­tal Hotel site is being pre­pared and will be served next week or very soon after.
   • Action Point at Para 55i) Ongo­ing – Asso­ci­ation of Cairngorms Com­munit­ies will be informed of the Flood Risk Man­age­ment Plans to spread aware­ness in com­munit­ies and through their plan­ning rep­res­ent­at­ives at their next meet­ing on 27 March 2019.

4. Action Point Arising: None.

Agenda Item 4: Declar­a­tion of Interest by Mem­bers on Items Appear­ing on the Agenda

1. Dr Gaen­er Rodger declared a Dir­ect interest in: Item No. 5 Reas­on: Is a Board Mem­ber of NHS and did not take part in the site visit.

2. Xan­der McDade declared an Indir­ect interest in: Item No. 6 Reas­on: Objec­ted as loc­al coun­cil­lor to ori­gin­al design.

3. Fiona McLean declared an Indir­ect Interest in: Item No. 5 Reas­on: Is a Mem­ber of NHS Clin­ic­al Com­mit­tee but has not been involved in the dis­cus­sions or devel­op­ment of this application.

4. Fiona McLean declared a Dir­ect Interest in: Item No. 6 Reas­on: Is a Board Mem­ber of His­tor­ic Envir­on­ment Scotland.

5. Douglas McAdam declared an Indir­ect Interest in: Item No. 6 Reas­on: Is a mem­ber of the Nation­al Trust for Scotland

6. Peter Argyle declared an Indir­ect Interest in: Item No. 6 Reas­on: Is a mem­ber of the Nation­al Trust for Scotland

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1. Dr Gaen­er Rodger left the room.

Agenda Item 5: Applic­a­tion for Detailed Plan­ning Per­mis­sion (2018/0311/DET) Erec­tion of Com­munity Hos­pit­al At Land 215M South of Spey House, Cairngorm Tech­no­logy Park, Dal­faber Drive, Aviemore Recom­mend­a­tion: Approve Sub­ject to Conditions

1. The Con­vener advised that the Applic­ant was present should the Com­mit­tee have any tech­nic­al questions.

2. Gav­in Miles, Head of Plan­ning & Com­munit­ies presen­ted the paper to the Com­mit­tee. He high­lighted that the fol­low­ing con­di­tions and an inform­at­ive had been missed from the report and asked for approv­al of these should the applic­a­tion be approved: a) Stand­ard Con­di­tion to ensure can approve final details of mater­i­als. b) Con­di­tion ensur­ing there is prac­tic­al access par­tic­u­larly for buses at Dal­faber Drive and if any improve­ments to that junc­tion required, ensur­ing that these are sub­mit­ted to CNPA for approv­al in con­sulta­tion with High­land Coun­cil pri­or to work com­men­cing on site. c) Con­di­tion provid­ing details around the bus stop and drop off to be approved by the CNPA in con­sulta­tion with High­land Coun­cil. d) Inform­at­ive that states no work should be under­taken on the adop­ted pub­lic road until the road open­ing per­mit is sub­mit­ted to the High­land Council.

3. The Con­vener high­lighted that no objec­tions to this applic­a­tion had been received and that only one let­ter of rep­res­ent­a­tion had been received from the Strath­spey Rail­way Com­pany with regards to noise which was addressed through condition.

4. The Com­mit­tee were invited to dis­cuss the report, the fol­low­ing points were raised: a) Con­cern raised that the secur­ity fen­cing around the rail­way would not be attract­ive. Gav­in Miles agreed that this was a poten­tial and explained that it was addressed in con­di­tion 16. b) Con­cern raised that there would not be suf­fi­cient car park­ing for the hos­pit­al and what work had been done to estim­ate the require­ment? Gav­in Miles explained that the car park­ing require­ments had been dis­cussed at length by the pro­ject team and with the High­land Coun­cil Trans­port Plan­ning Team and that they were con­tent that there was adequate park­ing. He advised that the site is access­ible to get to without a car and that people will be encour­aged to walk to it. He added that there was scope in future to add more park­ing, but that was not part of this application.

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c) Com­ment made that it was a good applic­a­tion with a good design, suf­fi­cient car park­ing and recog­ni­tion that many of the older gen­er­a­tion do travel by bus. d) Sug­ges­tion made that the views from the east side of the build­ing are not obstruc­ted by fen­cing, that the moun­tains should be vis­ible. e) Sug­ges­tion made that in the long term there was an oppor­tun­ity to explore the health bene­fits for people both staff and patients com­pared to oth­ers else­where. f) Com­ment made that it would be 100 years since a new hos­pit­al had been built in Badenoch & Strath­spey. g) Con­cern raised that as a con­sequence of the shape of the site the con­struc­tion time by default causes dam­age to the areas (trees and grass­lands) that should be retained, sug­ges­tion made to be more spe­cif­ic as to which stand­ards to use in the con­di­tion. Gav­in Miles agreed to refer to the Brit­ish Stand­ards in the con­di­tion. h) With ref­er­ence to con­di­tion 16, fen­cing between the site and the steam rail­way was not there? Gav­in Miles agreed to ensure it was expli­citly covered by the con­di­tion. i) Com­ment made that the applic­a­tion was a major achieve­ment and a cred­it to NHS High­land, the CNPA Staff and the com­munity. j) Com­ment made that it was well designed par­tic­u­larly giv­en the nar­row site. Praise for the design as it appears to take patients into con­sid­er­a­tion by provid­ing a garden for patients as well as a sep­ar­ate out­door area for staff. In addi­tion praise for the two core paths top and bot­tom from the site and encour­aged a see through fence.

1. The Com­mit­tee agreed to approve the applic­a­tions sub­ject to the con­di­tions in the report with the fol­low­ing addi­tions to Con­di­tions & Inform­at­ive notes: a) Stand­ard Con­di­tion to ensure the CNPA can approve final details of mater­i­als b) Con­di­tion ensur­ing there is prac­tic­al access for buses at Dal­faber Drive and that if any improve­ments to that junc­tion are required, ensur­ing that these are sub­mit­ted to CNPA for approv­al in con­sulta­tion with High­land Coun­cil pri­or to work com­men­cing on site. c) Stand­ard Con­di­tion provid­ing details around the bus stop and drop off to be approved by the CNPA in con­sulta­tion with High­land Coun­cil. d) Strength­en­ing of Con­di­tion 16 to expli­citly include the fen­cing between the site and the steam rail­way. e) Addi­tion to Con­di­tion 3 to ensure the Brit­ish Stand­ards are referred to. f) Inform­at­ive that states no work should be under­taken on the adop­ted pub­lic road until the road open­ing per­mit is sub­mit­ted to the High­land Council.

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1. Action Point arising: i. Addi­tions as detailed in para­graph 18 to be added to decision notice.

2. Dr Gaen­er Rodger return to meet­ing and Fiona McLean left room.

Agenda Item 6: CNPA Response to Trans­port Scot­land A9 Dualling: Kil­li­crankie to Glen Garry Sec­tion Pro­pos­als Recom­mend­a­tion: With­draw Objection

1. Gav­in Miles, Head of Plan­ning & Rur­al Devel­op­ment presen­ted the paper to the Committee.

2. The Com­mit­tee were invited to dis­cuss the report, the fol­low­ing points were raised: a) With ref­er­ence to the revised slope gradi­ent was this with­in nor­mal para­met­ers for road design? Was there a future risk that it becomes a main­ten­ance prob­lem and then becomes unsightly? Gav­in Miles advised that it was with­in the nor­mal para­met­ers of road design. b) Recog­ni­tion that road dualling would always have an impact on res­id­ents who live close by. Com­ment made that the pro­posed dualling would be fol­low­ing the exist­ing route and not cre­at­ing a new route. c) What would the great­er visu­al impact be? Gav­in Miles advised that the slopes would be steep­er mak­ing them stand out slightly more than in the pre­vi­ous pro­pos­als. How­ever, the changes would be subtle and had the bene­fit of cre­at­ing a clear­er dis­tinc­tion between the undis­turbed areas of the his­tor­ic bat­tle­field. d) Would there be a reduc­tion in speed imposed on the slip roads as a res­ult of need­ing to change the angles? Gav­in Miles con­firmed that there would be some changes to speed lim­its on slip as a res­ult of the new scheme, but that these were with­in the scope of design para­met­ers for road build­ing. e) What would hap­pen next if the Com­mit­tee were to with­draw the objec­tion? Gav­in Miles advised that approv­al of the pro­pos­als would be Minister’s decision ulti­mately, but that there may be an inquiry depend­ing on the out­stand­ing objec­tions. f) Sug­ges­tion made to vis­it the site fol­low­ing the next Form­al Board meet­ing on 29 March 2019 that takes place in Blair Atholl. The Con­vener advised that it was import­ant that the Com­mit­tee focus on the reas­on the Com­mit­tee objec­ted to the pro­pos­al in first place which had now be addressed there­fore it was unne­ces­sary to delay the decision further.

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1. The Com­mit­tee agreed to with­draw the CNPA’s objec­tion to the A9 dualling on the Kil­liecrakie to Glen Garry section.

2. Action Point arising: None.

Agenda Item 7: Any Oth­er Business

1. Fiona McLean returned to the meeting.

2. Gav­in Miles provided an update on the fol­low­ing Post Com­mit­tee applic­a­tion leg­al updates: a) An Camas Mor – The agree­ment is reach­ing con­clu­sion with all parties ready to sign the agree­ment over the com­ing week or two. b) Broom­hill Quarry – the applic­ants have iden­ti­fied a bond and we expect mat­ters to be con­cluded soon. c) Dal­whin­nie Quarry – leg­al agree­ment being pre­pared and is now expec­ted to pro­gress quickly.

3. Gav­in Miles repor­ted that the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan drop-in ses­sions that had been held over the past few weeks had had a steady stream of people attend­ing. He repor­ted that Bal­later and Brae­mar ses­sions had been the best atten­ded with 50 – 60 people in attend­ance. The last event will take place next Monday afternoon/​even­ing in Grant­own on Spey.

4. The Con­vener announced that Dan Har­ris and Emma Wilson had recently been pro­moted to Plan­ning Man­ager (For­ward Plan­ning & Ser­vice Improve­ment) and Plan­ning Man­ager (Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment) respect­ively and con­grat­u­lated them both on their promotions.

5. Action Point arising: None.

Agenda Item 8: Date of Next Meeting

1. Fri­day 22^nd March 2019 at The Com­munity Hall, Boat of Garten.

2. Com­mit­tee Mem­bers are reques­ted to ensure that any Apo­lo­gies for this meet­ing are sub­mit­ted to the Clerk to the Board, Alix Harkness.

3. The pub­lic busi­ness of the meet­ing con­cluded at 12.34.