Cairngorms 2030: Strategic Environmental Assessment Screening Report June 2022

SCREEN­ING REPORT ¹⁄₁₈ STEP I — DETAILS OF THE PLAN Respons­ible Author­ity: Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Title of the plan: Cairngorms 2030 pro­gramme and plans What promp­ted the plan: (e.g. a legis­lat­ive, reg­u­lat­ory or admin­is­trat­ive pro­vi­sion) Her­it­age Hori­zons fund­ing bid for a pro­gramme of plans man­aged by CNPA to tackle cli­mate change and the nature crisis, deliv­er­ing an eco­nomy that works for all. Plan sub­ject: (e.g. trans­port) land use, agri­cul­ture, forestry, trans­port, tour­ism Screen­ing is required by the Envir­on­ment­al Assess­ment (Scot­land) Act 2005. Based on Boxes 3 and 4, our view is that: An SEA is required, as the envir­on­ment­al effects are likely to be sig­ni­fic­ant: Please indic­ate below what Sec­tion of the 2005 Act this plan falls with­in Sec­tion 5(3) X Sec­tion 5(4) An SEA is not required, as the envir­on­ment­al effects are unlikely to be sig­ni­fic­ant: Please indic­ate below what Sec­tion of the 2005 Act this plan falls with­in Con­tact details: Date: Sec­tion 5(3) Sec­tion 5(4) Nina Caudrey, Plan­ning Officer (Devel­op­ment Plan­ning and Envir­on­ment­al Advice), Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity, 14 The Square, Grant­own on Spey, PH26 3HG ninacaudrey@​cairngorms.​co.​uk I June 2022 ²⁄₁₈ Con­text of the Plan: STEP 2 — CON­TEXT AND DESCRIP­TION OF THE PLAN Cairngorms 2030* is a pro­gramme con­sist­ing of 23 plans to tackle cli­mate change and the nature crisis, deliv­er­ing an eco­nomy that works for all. The pro­gramme cov­ers the Cairngorms Nation­al Park. At present, fund­ing has been secured for stage I, the devel­op­ing ideas stage. The plans are being worked up dur­ing sum­mer 2022, with the inten­tion being that they will be sub­mit­ted for a second fund­ing round bid by June 2023 for stage 2, the deliv­ery stage, from Octo­ber 2023 onwards (if the fund­ing bid is suc­cess­ful). The over­all pro­gramme and plans for Stage 1, devel­op­ing ideas, is what are being screened for SEA. (Once the plans have been developed, they will be sub­ject to a second fund­ing bid, and if suc­cess­ful, stage 2, the deliv­ery stage, is likely to be sub­ject to fur­ther SEA and/​or pro­ject level EIA if more appro­pri­ate.) Due to the fund­ing mech­an­ism, the Cairngorms 2030 pro­gramme and plans are sep­ar­ate from any oth­er CNPA plans, pro­grammes or strategies — the Cairngorms 2030 pro­gramme and plans are not depend­ent on any oth­er CNPA plans, pro­grammes or strategies and vice versa. How­ever the out­comes of the deliv­ery stage of Cairngorms 2030 plans would coin­cid­ent­ally con­trib­ute towards the aims and object­ives of a num­ber of CNPA plans, pro­grammes and strategies such as the Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan, Cairngorms Nature Action Plan, Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan, Forest Strategy and Peat­land Action Pro­gramme. The hier­archy of the cur­rent key Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity (CNPA) plans, pro­grammes and strategies is shown below. Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan The man­age­ment plan for the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan Sets out the policies for land use plan­ning with­in the Nation­al Park Act­ive Cairngorms The out­door access strategy for the Nation­al Park Cairngorms Nature Sets out the Nation­al Park’s con­ser­va­tion pri­or­it­ies Eco­nom­ic Action Plan Sets out the eco­nom­ic pri­or­it­ies for the Nation­al Park LEAD­ER Loc­al Devel­op­ment Strategy Sets out the pri­or­it­ies for pro­mot­ing com­munity- led loc­al devel­op­ment to sup­port a sus­tain­able rur­al eco­nomy in the Nation­al Park ³⁄₁₈ Descrip­tion of See above, https://​www​.her​it​age​fund​.org​.uk/​p​r​o​j​e​c​t​s​/​h​h​a​2​0​1​9​-​c​a​i​r​n​g​o​r​m​s​-​2​0​3​0​-​p​e​ople- the Plan: and-nature-thriv­ing-togeth­er and the table in Appendix I for more inform­a­tion about the Cairngorms 2030 pro­gramme and plans. No new powers will arise as a res­ult of stage I of the pro­gramme. What are the key com­pon­ents of the plan? Please see Appendix I, table of plan sum­mar­ies and anti­cip­ated out­puts for stage I of Cairngorms 2030. Have any of the com­pon­ents of the plan been con­sidered in pre­vi­ous SEA work? Yes, albeit indir­ectly. Some of the Cairngorms 2030 plan out­comes coin­cide with aims and object­ives of oth­er plans, pro­grammes or strategies, eg Forest Strategy and Peat­land Action Pro­gramme. How­ever the Cairngorms 2030 plans related to wood­land and peat­land are tak­ing a more detailed/​location spe­cif­ic approach than that pre­vi­ously assessed. In terms of your response to Boxes 7 and 8 above, set out those com­pon­ents of the plan that are likely to require screen­ing: Cairngorms 2030 pro­gramme and Cairngorms 2030 plans: la Well­being Eco­nomy Ib Green Health Ic Demen­tia Activ­ity Resource Centre 2a: Cli­mate learn­ing and edu­ca­tion 2b: Effect­ive Com­munity Engage­ment (com­bined with 3b: Citizen’s Assembly) 2c: Com­munity Arts and Cul­ture 3a Cli­mate Con­scious Com­munit­ies 3c Com­munity Man­aged Grants scheme 4a Region­al Land Use Part­ner­ship and land rights and respons­ib­il­it­ies 4b Green Invest­ment Plan 5a Wood­land Expan­sion 5b Peat­land res­tor­a­tion 5c Cli­mate resi­li­ent catch­ments 5^d Deer Man­age­ment 5^e Cairngorms Future Farm­ing 5f Land­scape and com­munit­ies 6a Ebikes 6b Glen­more trans­port plan 6c Act­ive com­munit­ies 6^d Sus­tain­able trans­port in Deeside 6^e Sus­tain­able trans­port in High­land Perth­shire 6f Act­ive Aviemore 6g Cairngorms act­ive travel plan (See Appendix I, table of plan sum­mar­ies and anti­cip­ated out­puts for stage I of Cairngorms 2030.) ⁴⁄₁₈ Plan Com­pon­ents Biod­iversity, flora and fauna Pop­u­la­tion and human health Cairngorms 2030 pro­gramme X X X STEP 3 — IDENTI­FY­ING INTER­AC­TIONS OF THE PLAN WITH THE ENVIR­ON­MENT AND CON­SID­ER­ING THE LIKELY SIG­NI­FIC­ANCE OF ANY INTER­AC­TIONS (Error! Ref­er­ence source not found.) Soil X Water X Air X Cli­mat­ic factors X Mater­i­al assets X Cul­tur­al her­it­age Land­scape Inter-rela­tion­ship issues Explan­a­tion of Poten­tial Envir­on­ment­al Effects Explan­a­tion of Sig­ni­fic­ance X X The pro­gramme itself is too vague to enable mean­ing­ful assess­ment and in itself is unlikely to res­ult in sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects. Deliv­ery is through the asso­ci­ated plans, which are sub­ject to sep­ar­ate screen­ing below. n/​a as no sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects pre­dicted Cairngorms 2030 plans: la Well­being Eco­nomy X X X X X X X X X X None — stage I out­puts are con­sensus build­ing and inform­a­tion gath­er­ing. n/​a as no sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects pre­dicted Ib Green Health X X X X X X X X X X Ic Demen­tia Activ­ity X X X X X X X Resource Centre 2a: Cli­mate learn­ing and edu­ca­tion X X X X X X X X X X 2b: Effect­ive Com­munity Engage­ment (com­bined X X X X X X X X X X with 3b: Citizen’s Assembly) 2c: Com­munity Arts X X X X X X X X X X and Cul­ture 3a Cli­mate Con­scious Com­munit­ies X X X X X X X X X X 3c Com­munity Man­aged Grants scheme X X X X X X X X X X None — stage I out­puts are con­sensus build­ing and inform­a­tion gath­er­ing. While there is lim­ited detail to enable mean­ing­ful envir­on­ment­al assess­ment at present, the ​‘pro­gramme of activ­it­ies developed and delivered’ could have envir­on­ment­al effects on sens­it­ive envir­on­ment­al areas around the pro­posed loc­a­tion at Bad­aguish (par­tic­u­larly areas import­ant for caper­cail­lie), while also hav­ing pos­it­ive health bene­fits for those will demen­tia and their carers. There are poten­tial inter­re­la­tion­ships with oth­er Cairngorms 2030 plans that involve act­ive travel that may also affect the same loc­a­tion and sur­round­ing area. None — stage I out­puts are con­sensus build­ing and inform­a­tion gath­er­ing, and future bid pre­par­a­tion. n/​a as no sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects pre­dicted There is poten­tial for sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects par­tic­u­larly on biod­iversity flora and fauna. n/​a as no sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects pre­dicted None — stage I out­puts are con­sensus build­ing and inform­a­tion gath­er­ing, and future bid pre­par­a­tion. n/​a as no sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects pre­dicted None stage I out­puts are con­sensus build­ing and inform­a­tion gath­er­ing, and future bid pre­par­a­tion. None stage I out­puts are con­sensus build­ing and inform­a­tion gath­er­ing, and future bid pre­par­a­tion. None stage I out­puts are pro­cess based man­aging grant fund­ing. n/​a as no sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects pre­dicted n/​a as no sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects pre­dicted n/​a as no sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects pre­dicted ⁵⁄₁₈ 4a Region­al Land Use Part­ner­ship and land rights and X X X X X X X X X X None — stage I out­puts are con­sensus build­ing and inform­a­tion gath­er­ing. n/​a as no sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects pre­dicted respons­ib­il­it­ies 4b Green Invest­ment Plan X X X X X X X X X X None stage I out­puts are inform­a­tion gath­er­ing and fin­ance test­ing. n/​a as no sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects pre­dicted 5a Wood­land Expan­sion X X X X X X X X X X None — stage I out­puts are inform­a­tion gath­er­ing. n/​a as no sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects pre­dicted While there is very little detail on where res­tor­a­tion would take place or what would be involved, sites will be iden­ti­fied and there could be envir­on­ment­al effects for example through access with machinery to and from the res­tor­a­tion area caus­ing dam­age and sed­i­ment release (affect­ing water qual­ity), noise and light­ing from 5b Peat­land res­tor­a­tion ✓ X ✓ X 5c Cli­mate resi­li­ent catch­ments X X

X

machinery and human activ­ity caus­ing dis­turb­ance, and/​or works timed inap­pro­pri­ately so caus­ing increased dis­turb­ance or dam­age to hab­it­ats and spe­cies. There may also be effects on cul­tur­al her­it­age that may be hid­den under peat­land hab­it­at being restored. There should be bene­fi­cial effects on air and cli­mat­ic factors through the con­tri­bu­tion res­tor­a­tion would make to tack­ling the causes of cli­mate change by improv­ing the func­tion of the restored peat­lands as car­bon sinks. Poten­tial inter­re­la­tion­ship with the cli­mate resi­li­ent catch­ments plan. While there is very little detail on where res­tor­a­tion would take place or what would be involved at present, there could be envir­on­ment­al effects for example through access with machinery to and from the res­tor­a­tion area caus­ing dam­age to hab­it­ats and/​or pol­lu­tion through sed­i­ment release, noise and/​or light­ing from machinery and human activ­ity caus­ing dis­turb­ance to spe­cies, and/​or works timed inap­pro­pri­ately so caus­ing dis­turb­ance or increased damage/​pollution. There is also the poten­tial for pos­it­ive envir­on­ment­al effects such as nat­ur­al flood man­age­ment (cli­mat­ic factors) and res­tor­a­tion hav­ing bene­fi­cial effects on biod­iversity. Poten­tial inter­re­la­tion­ship with the peat­land res­tor­a­tion plan. None — stage I out­puts are inform­a­tion gath­er­ing and con­sensus build­ing, while the pre­par­a­tion of Stra­tegic Land Use Plans out­put is too vague to enable mean­ing­ful assess­ment. There is a risk of sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects due to the inher­ent sens­it­iv­ity of peat­land hab­it­ats and the type of works required for res­tor­a­tion, if not car­ried out appro­pri­ately. There is a risk of sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects due to the inher­ent sens­it­iv­ity of the water envir­on­ment, hab­it­ats and spe­cies it sup­ports. n/​a as no sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects pre­dicted X X X 5^d Deer Man­age­ment X X X X X X X X X X 5^e Cairngorms Future Farm­ing X X X X X X X X X X None — stage I out­puts are inform­a­tion gath­er­ing and con­sensus build­ing, while the pre­par­a­tion of Integ­rated Land Man­age­ment Plans out­put is too vague to enable mean­ing­ful assess­ment. n/​a as no sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects pre­dicted ⁶⁄₁₈ 5f Land­scape and com­munit­ies X X X 6a Ebikes X X X X X X X

None stage I out­puts are con­sensus build­ing and inform­a­tion gath­er­ing. While there is lim­ited detail to enable mean­ing­ful assess­ment at present, there could be envir­on­ment­al effects from changes in e bike use, for example changes to the pat­terns of human activ­ity hav­ing effects on sens­it­ive envir­on­ment­al areas/​receptors (eg areas pro­tec­ted for nature con­ser­va­tion or oth­er­wise import­ant for wild­life, sens­it­ive hab­it­ats, cul­tur­al her­it­age, built envir­on­ment, land­scape effects, etc). There is also poten­tial for health bene­fits to people through being more act­ive and reduced emis­sions from fossil fuel powered vehicles. Poten­tial for inter­re­la­tion­ship with oth­er travel related plans and plans affect­ing the same area in the Cairngorms 2030 pro­gramme. While there is lim­ited detail to enable mean­ing­ful assess­ment at present, there could be envir­on­ment­al effects from reduced or restric­ted vehicle use, for example changes to the pat­terns of human activ­ity hav­ing effects on sens­it­ive envir­on­ment­al areas/​receptors (eg areas pro­tec­ted for nature con­ser­va­tion or oth­er­wise import­ant for wild­life, sens­it­ive hab­it­ats, cul­tur­al her­it­age, built envir­on­ment, land­scape effects, etc). There is also poten­tial for health bene­fits to people through being more act­ive and reduced emis­sions from fossil fuel powered vehicles. Poten­tial for inter­re­la­tion­ship with oth­er travel related plans and plans affect­ing the same area in the Cairngorms 2030 pro­gramme. While there is lim­ited detail to enable mean­ing­ful assess­ment at present, there could be envir­on­ment­al effects from infra­struc­ture improve­ments and concept designs caus­ing built devel­op­ment and/​or changes to the pat­terns of human activ­ity hav­ing effects on sens­it­ive envir­on­ment­al areas/​receptors (eg areas pro­tec­ted for nature con­ser­va­tion or oth­er­wise import­ant for wild­life, sens­it­ive hab­it­ats, cul­tur­al her­it­age, built envir­on­ment, land­scape effects, etc). There is also poten­tial for health bene­fits to people through being more act­ive and reduced emis­sions from fossil fuel powered vehicles. Poten­tial for inter­re­la­tion­ship with oth­er travel related plans in the Cairngorms 2030 pro­gramme. n/​a as no sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects pre­dicted There could be sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects from changes to the pat­terns of human activ­ity in sens­it­ive envir­on­ment­al areas, as well as health bene­fits to people and improve­ments in air qual­ity. There could be sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects from changes to the pat­terns of human activ­ity in sens­it­ive envir­on­ment­al areas/​receptors, as well as health bene­fits to people and improve­ments in air qual­ity. There could be sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects from changes to the pat­terns of human activ­ity in sens­it­ive envir­on­ment­al areas/​receptors, as well as health bene­fits to people and improve­ments in air qual­ity. 6b Glen­more trans­port plan

6c act­ive com­munit­ies Badenoch and Strathspey

✓

⁷⁄₁₈ 6^d sus­tain­able trans­port in Deeside ✓

✓ While there is lim­ited detail to enable mean­ing­ful assess­ment at present, there could be envir­on­ment­al effects from infra­struc­ture improve­ments and concept designs caus­ing built devel­op­ment and/​or changes to the pat­terns of human activ­ity hav­ing effects on sens­it­ive envir­on­ment­al areas/​receptors (eg areas pro­tec­ted for nature con­ser­va­tion or oth­er­wise import­ant for wild­life, sens­it­ive hab­it­ats, cul­tur­al her­it­age, built envir­on­ment, land­scape effects, etc). There is also poten­tial for health bene­fits to people through being more act­ive and reduced emis­sions from fossil fuel powered vehicles. Poten­tial for inter­re­la­tion­ship with oth­er travel related plans in the Cairngorms 2030 pro­gramme. While there is lim­ited detail to enable mean­ing­ful assess­ment at present, there could be envir­on­ment­al effects from the route between Blair Atholl and Kil­liecrankie caused by built devel­op­ment and/​or changes to the pat­terns of human activ­ity hav­ing effects on sens­it­ive envir­on­ment­al areas/​receptors (eg areas pro­tec­ted for nature con­ser­va­tion or oth­er­wise import­ant for wild­life, sens­it­ive hab­it­ats, cul­tur­al her­it­age, built envir­on­ment, land­scape effects, etc). There is also poten­tial for health bene­fits to people through being more act­ive and reduced emis­sions from fossil fuel powered vehicles. Poten­tial for inter­re­la­tion­ship with oth­er travel related plans in the Cairngorms 2030 pro­gramme. There could be sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects from changes to the pat­terns of human activ­ity in sens­it­ive envir­on­ment­al areas/​receptors, as well as health bene­fits to people and improve­ments in air qual­ity. There could be sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects from changes to the pat­terns of human activ­ity in sens­it­ive envir­on­ment­al areas/​receptors, as well as health bene­fits to people and improve­ments in air quality.

6^e sus­tain­able trans­port in High­land Perthshire ✓ ✓ ✓

6f Act­ive Aviemore

While there is lim­ited detail to enable mean­ing­ful assess­ment at present, there could be envir­on­ment­al effects from infra­struc­ture improve­ments and concept designs caus­ing built devel­op­ment and/​or changes to the pat­terns of human activ­ity hav­ing effects on sens­it­ive envir­on­ment­al areas/​receptors (eg areas pro­tec­ted for nature con­ser­va­tion or oth­er­wise import­ant for wild­life, sens­it­ive hab­it­ats, cul­tur­al her­it­age, built envir­on­ment, land­scape effects, etc). There is also poten­tial for health bene­fits to people through being more act­ive and reduced emis­sions from fossil fuel powered vehicles. Poten­tial for inter­re­la­tion­ship with oth­er travel related plans in the Cairngorms 2030 pro­gramme. There could be sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects from changes to the pat­terns of human activ­ity in sens­it­ive envir­on­ment­al areas/​receptors, as well as health bene­fits to people and improve­ments in air qual­ity. ⁸⁄₁₈ 6g Cairngorms act­ive ✓ travel plan

While there is lim­ited detail to enable mean­ing­ful assess­ment at present, there could be envir­on­ment­al effects from infra­struc­ture improve­ments and concept designs caus­ing built devel­op­ment and/​or changes to the pat­terns of human activ­ity hav­ing effects on sens­it­ive envir­on­ment­al areas/​receptors (eg areas pro­tec­ted for nature con­ser­va­tion or oth­er­wise import­ant for wild­life, sens­it­ive hab­it­ats, cul­tur­al her­it­age, built envir­on­ment, land­scape effects, etc). There is also poten­tial for health bene­fits to people through being more act­ive and reduced emis­sions from fossil fuel powered vehicles. Poten­tial for inter­re­la­tion­ship with oth­er travel related plans in the Cairngorms 2030 pro­gramme. There could be sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects from changes to the pat­terns of human activ­ity in sens­it­ive envir­on­ment­al areas, as well as health bene­fits to people and improve­ments in air quality.

⁹⁄₁₈ STEP 4 — STATE­MENT OF THE FIND­INGS OF THE SCREEN­ING Sum­mary of inter­ac­tions with the envir­on­ment and state­ment of the find­ings of the Screen­ing: (Includ­ing an out­line of the likely sig­ni­fic­ance of any inter­ac­tions, pos­it­ive or neg­at­ive, and explan­a­tion of con­clu­sion of the screen­ing exer­cise.) The Cairngorms 2030 pro­gramme has been screened out for the reas­ons giv­en in the table above. How­ever 10 of the Cairngorms 2030 plans have been screened in due to their poten­tial to have pos­it­ive and/​or neg­at­ive sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects on biod­iversity, trans­port, air qual­ity, human health, cli­mat­ic factors, water, cul­tur­al her­it­age and/​or land­scape, for the reas­ons giv­en in the table above. The remain­ing Cairngorms 2030 plans have been screened out as they relate to inform­a­tion gath­er­ing and/​or con­sensus build­ing, and will not res­ult in out­puts likely to have a sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effect. When com­pleted send to: SEA.​gateway@​scotland.​gsi.​gov.​uk or to the SEA Gate­way, Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment, Area 2H (South), Vic­tor­ia Quay, Edin­burgh, EH6 6QQ. ¹⁰⁄₁₈ Appendix I — table of out­line inform­a­tion about Cairngorms 2030 plans Cairngorms 2030 plan la Well­being Eco­nomy Ib Green Health Ic Demen­tia Activ­ity Resource Centre 2a: Cli­mate learn­ing and edu­ca­tion Con­text: high level plan sum­mary Stage 1: out­line of anti­cip­ated plan out­comes (Note this is not sub­ject to assess­ment as it is the out­comes for stages 1 and 2 sub­ject to change as the plans go through the iter­at­ive pro­cess of being developed that will deliv­er the plan, so the out­comes are assessed rather than the high level sum­mar­ies.) There is a need to move to an eco­nom­ic mod­el that bene­fits people and nature aim­ing for an equit­able dis­tri­bu­tion of wealth, health and well­being while pro­tect­ing the planet’s resources for future gen­er­a­tions and oth­er spe­cies. This pro­ject will cre­ate a Well­being Eco­nomy in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park. Raise aware­ness and under­stand­ing of well­being eco­nom­ies and how they can bene­fit com­munit­ies and busi­nesses in the Cairngorms. Access to green­space sup­ports phys­ic­al and men­tal health and well­being. This plan will focus on devel­op­ing a green health part­ner­ship across sec­tors, test­ing green pre­scrib­ing and employ­ing a com­munity health ranger work­ing across the Badenoch and Strath­spey dis­trict and embed­ded in Aviemore hos­pit­al. It seeks to increase levels of out­door access, con­nec­tion with nature and improve the health and well­being with staff, patients and vis­it­ors to new Aviemore hos­pit­al; expand aware­ness of green health oppor­tun­it­ies (espe­cially men­tal health and health inequal­it­ies); sup­port indi­vidu­als to improve their health and well­being and build resi­li­ence through enga­ging with and appre­ci­at­ing the nat­ur­al envir­on­ment; test a green health pre­scrib­ing refer­ral pro­gramme; and bet­ter con­nect the deliv­ery of health out­comes with the health improv­ing poten­tial of the nat­ur­al envir­on­ment. Demon­strat­ing the bene­fits of out­door demen­tia care and design­ing world class thera­peut­ic green health inter­ven­tions, Alzheimer Scot­land will devel­op the country’s first Out­door Resource Centre spe­cific­ally designed to sup­port people liv­ing with demen­tia, their carers and fam­il­ies. Spend­ing time in the out­doors is an import­ant part of liv­ing well with demen­tia and can improve men­tal and phys­ic­al well-being and links to Cairngorms 2030 work on Green Refer­rals (plan Ib). This will enable people to enjoy and explore the out­door envir­on­ment. Based at Bad­aguish Out­door Centre (near Glen­more), stake­hold­ers will be con­sul­ted, the build­ing leased and ren­ov­ated, and a pro­gramme of out­door based thera­peut­ic activ­it­ies will be delivered. This plan will devel­op and deliv­er a cli­mate learn­ing pro­gramme to raise aware­ness and know­ledge amongst young people about cli­mate change, includ­ing mit­ig­a­tion and adapt­a­tion and pos­sible com­munity led pro­jects that can be pur­sued dur­ing the deliv­ery phase. It aims for young people to be aware, informed and know­ledge­able and under­stand the need for cli­mate action; for schools and their com­munit­ies to be plan­ning and col­lab­or­at­ing on sus­tain­able pro­jects to give real world exper­i­ences; for effect­ive and con­sist­ent con­nec­tion with nature for all High School stu­dents as part of a path­way to pro envir­on­ment­al lifelong beha­viours; and for all stu­dents (regard­less of interest/​motivation) to have par­ti­cip­ated in the devel­op­ment phase. (This is what has been screened.)

1. Under­take a Well­being Eco­nomy Stock­take. This desk-based evid­ence review will build up a pic­ture of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park (CNP) area regard­ing well­being in its broad­est sense. Under­take an audit to under­stand the cur­rent situ­ation regard­ing Well­being Eco­nomy aims and goals.
2. Devel­op Corner­stone Indic­at­ors: Linked with the development/​review of Com­munity Action Plans, engage with as many com­munit­ies of place across the CNP as pos­sible to agree a shared mean­ing of a well­being eco­nomy and what the indic­at­ors might be that would allow the com­munity to capture/​monitor them.
3. Busi­ness of Well­being Review: Pro­cess of social­ising the concept of a Well­being Eco­nomy with busi­ness in the CNP to baseline cur­rent under­stand­ing and the sup­port they feel they need to be involved and sup­port the transition.
4. Cur­rent pro­vi­sion of ser­vices and activ­it­ies which pro­mote health and well­being in the Badenoch and Strath­spey region of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park are mapped, includ­ing review of and engage­ment with the loc­al Green Health Network;
5. Through the Green Health Ranger post, oppor­tun­it­ies are developed/​linked across sec­tors, and pro­viders are sup­por­ted with inform­a­tion, guid­ance, train­ing and networking;
6. Aviemore Hos­pit­al and GPs are engaged, rais­ing aware­ness and con­fid­ence in green health refer­ral and the avail­ab­il­ity of a Green Health refer­ral pathway;
7. Build­ing on the above, a Green Health Pre­scrib­ing Refer­ral Pro­gramme is developed and tested with Badenoch and Strath­spey med­ic­al prac­tices, asso­ci­ated pub­lic health pro­fes­sion­als, com­munity trans­port groups, care homes, busi­nesses and com­munity groups.
8. Two staff employed
9. Stake­hold­ers engaged and plans developed
10. Build­ing leased and renovated
11. Research and eval­u­ation pro­gramme established
12. Pro­gramme of activ­it­ies developed and delivered
13. Baseline map­ping audit report on the exist­ence and appro­pri­ate­ness of cur­rent edu­ca­tion resources that are rel­ev­ant to the Cairngorms Cli­mate Learn­ing framework;
14. Devel­op­ment of a Cairngorms 2030 Vis­ion for 5 High Schools in the Park and their Communities;
15. Devel­op­ment of a Cairngorms Cli­mate Learn­ing Plan for each of the 5 High schools high­light­ing poten­tial pro­jects for Deliv­ery Phase consideration;
16. Pro­duce a Report, Show and Tell on Devel­op­ment Phase Learn­ing. ¹¹⁄₁₈ 2b: Effect­ive Com­munity Engage­ment (com­bined with 3b: Citizen’s Assembly) 2c: Com­munity Arts and Cul­ture 3a Cli­mate Con­scious Com­munit­ies This plan will review effect­ive mod­els for com­munity engage­ment; take this learn­ing to co-design an appro­pri­ate engage­ment mod­el for the Cairngorms Nation­al Park (for example a Citizen’s Assembly) which allows those liv­ing and work­ing in the Park to feel con­fid­ent and motiv­ated to engage more in delib­er­at­ive pro­cesses and feel empowered and able to deliv­er com­munity led loc­al devel­op­ment; identi­fy poten­tial pro­jects of import­ance to com­munit­ies aligned with Cairngorms 2030 and oth­er stra­tegic pri­or­it­ies, sup­port com­munit­ies to col­lect­ively dis­cuss and agree pri­or­ity pro­jects, sup­port them to apply for fund­ing to deliv­er these and sup­port their deliv­ery across the Cairngorms. The plan aims for vis­it­ors and res­id­ents to build a great­er con­nec­tion to land­scape and place; for com­munit­ies and vis­it­ors are inspired through cul­ture and art to get involved in com­munity-based cli­mate action activ­ity or con­trib­ute through pos­it­ive cli­mate action beha­viour; and for a more col­lab­or­at­ive and vis­ible cre­at­ive net­work in the Nation­al Park begin­ning with devel­op­ing ideas phase activ­ity but evolving through the deliv­ery phase. This plan will pilot a cli­mate learn­ing pro­gramme dur­ing the devel­op­ing ideas phase, identi­fy­ing pro­jects that can be taken for­ward by par­ti­cipants in the deliv­ery phase and link­ing them to both the com­munity engage­ment exer­cise developed by (2b effect­ive com­munity engage­ment) and the Com­munity Grant scheme in (3c com­munity man­aged grant scheme). Les­sons learnt from the Cli­mate Learn­ing Pro­gramme Pilot will then inform the deliv­ery phase wider roll-out.
17. I. Baseline map­ping audit report of exist­ing con­sulta­tion top­ics and engage­ment mod­els in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park (by CNPA and key organ­isa­tions across the Nation­al Park).
18. Co-design appro­pri­ate engage­ment mod­els that deliv­er Park-wide and loc­al solutions/​decisions with key organ­isa­tions with­in the Park
19. Identi­fy and devel­op poten­tial engage­ment pro­jects using the newly designed mod­els to be con­sidered for deliv­ery phase. a. Using the learn­ing from Tasks 1 – 2, identi­fy key top­ics for delib­er­a­tion and engage­ment in the deliv­ery phase of the pro­gramme that will pro­gress the Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan 4 using net zero, well­being eco­nomy and oth­er iden­ti­fied loc­al drivers to guide key top­ics for con­sid­er­a­tion b. Col­lab­or­ate with com­munity grant giv­ing pro­ject lead to ensure that this pro­ject is ready for con­sid­er­a­tion at the start of the Deliv­ery Phase c. Devel­op and cost detailed pro­ject plans iden­ti­fied by 3 a) above to sub­mit for fund­ing con­sid­er­a­tion with a view to imple­ment­a­tion in the deliv­ery phase fund­ing application
20. Mon­it­or, eval­u­ate, record and share the know­ledge and learn­ing from the devel­op­ing ideas phase.
21. Cre­at­ive Dir­ect­ory col­lated and visu­al map launched on CNPA website
22. Con­sulta­tion: How can we effect­ively engage the Nation­al Park’s cre­at­ive sec­tor to inspire com­munit­ies and vis­it­ors to deep­en their sense of con­nec­ted­ness with the land­scape and their desire to act­ively pro­tect and enhance its qual­it­ies through pro-envir­on­ment­al behaviour?
23. Focus groups to feed­back con­sulta­tion res­ults with a view to devel­op­ing a con­sensus on which pro­jects should be developed for deliv­ery phase fund­ing consideration
24. Estab­lish steer­ing group(s) to devel­op the pro­jects into fund­ing pro­pos­als or to serve sec­tors ongo­ing needs and require­ments (out­comes of workshops)
25. Pilot pro­ject ideas gen­er­ated by cre­at­ive com­munity, developed into pro­pos­als for deliv­ery phase implementation.
26. Pro­cess Review — how effect­ive has this pro­cess been to bring the cre­at­ive sec­tor togeth­er and what needs to hap­pen next to imple­ment a suc­cess­ful deliv­ery phase.
27. Pre and post event par­ti­cipant eval­u­ation sur­vey to cap­ture wheth­er aims set out in (2) are achieved.
28. 10 cohorts of online work­shops (2 x 2.5 hrs) aim­ing to: a. Raise aware­ness, under­stand­ing of cli­mate change and activ­ity in the con­text of the Nation­al Park. b. Increase know­ledge so par­ti­cipants can speak con­fid­ently about cli­mate change issues in the Nation­al Park. c. Empower par­ti­cipants to take respons­ib­il­ity for change, and pro­mote dis­cus­sion to identi­fy poten­tial and out­line cli­mate action activ­it­ies and pro­jects that are most rel­ev­ant to them and their com­munit­ies d. Sign­post com­munit­ies and par­ti­cipants to rel­ev­ant sup­port organ­isa­tions and networks.
29. Monthly reports and final reports detail­ing: a. Pro­cess and approach adop­ted, what worked, what didn’t: b. Levels of engage­ment achieved, num­bers, audi­ence pro­file, who we missed c. Eval­u­ation sur­vey ana­lys­is, giv­ing con­sid­er­a­tion to key shifts from the pre to post eval­u­ation sur­vey (see indic­at­ors and out­comes sheet) d. Report on key themes, chal­lenges that were iden­ti­fied as bar­ri­ers to achiev­ing indi­vidu­al, com­munity ambi­tions and any sup­port require­ments iden­ti­fied to over­come these bar­ri­ers. e. Pro­ject ideas that were brought for­ward with­in sur­vey or work­shop dis­cus­sions that had com­mit­ment from par­ti­cipants, are aligned with NPPP4 and recom­mend­a­tions on the next steps to sup­port com­munit­ies real­ise some of the their cli­mate action ambi­tions f. Recom­mend­a­tions for Deliv­ery Stage. ¹²⁄₁₈ 3c Com­munity Man­aged Grants scheme This plan will cre­ate a com­munity grants scheme and, through link­ing with pro­jects (2b effect­ive com­munity engage­ment) and (3a cli­mate con­scious com­munit­ies) give com­munit­ies the power to define, design, fund and deliv­er pro­jects that mat­ter to them, also begin­ning to identi­fy poten­tial oppor­tun­it­ies and pro­jects for com­munit­ies to be involved with to mit­ig­ate cli­mate impacts. This plan will cre­ate a Region­al Land Use Part­ner­ship in the Cairngorms; 4a Region­al Land Use Part­ner­ship and land raise aware­ness of land rights and respons­ib­il­it­ies and the bene­fits they rights and respons­ib­il­it­ies could bring to com­munit­ies and cre­ate a mod­el for oth­er com­munity land schemes. 4b Green Invest­ment Plan 5a Wood­land Expan­sion The aim of the plan is to be an inter­na­tion­al show­case for inclus­ive and equit­able land man­age­ment change; and the object­ive is that the Cairngorms Nation­al Park will tri­al new mod­els of land use and land man­age­ment and pion­eer new col­lab­or­a­tions to engage with nature. Pal­la­di­um and CNPA work togeth­er to devel­op new mod­els in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park for how private fin­ance can be har­nessed for nature res­tor­a­tion, and delivered in a way that sup­ports socially inclus­ive, sus­tain­able changes in land man­age­ment. This Pro­ject will cre­ate a nation­al example of best prac­tice for imple­ment­ing inclus­ive and equit­able land man­age­ment change. This plan aims to con­trib­ute c1000ha of wood­land expan­sion dur­ing the 5 year deliv­ery peri­od. This wood­land expan­sion is to be strongly linked 1. • Col­la­tion and ana­lys­is of all eval­u­ations from LAG areas and oth­er small grant schemes to identi­fy les­sons learnt.
30. Use above to inform small scale test and learn of dif­fer­ent approaches to com­munity man­aged grants: Test and learn pro­ject: deliv­ery of fund­ing round with Cairngorms Trust. Anim­ate, deliv­er, eval­u­ate. Test and learn pro­ject: deliv­ery of fund­ing round with Youth LAG. Anim­ate, deliv­er, evaluate.
31. To-design a grant giv­ing frame­work with Cit­izens Assembly (or sim­il­ar) allow­ing them to define, design, fund and deliv­er pro­jects that mat­ter to them.
32. Col­la­tion and ana­lys­is of all eval­u­ations from LAG areas and oth­er small grant schemes to identi­fy les­sons learnt.
33. Use above to inform small scale test and learn of dif­fer­ent approaches to com­munity man­aged grants: To Test and learn pro­ject: deliv­ery of fund­ing round with Cairngorms Trust. Anim­ate, deliv­er, eval­u­ate. Test and learn pro­ject: deliv­ery of fund­ing round with Youth LAG. Anim­ate, deliv­er, evaluate.
34. Co-design a grant giv­ing frame­work with Cit­izens Assembly (or sim­il­ar) allow­ing them to define, design, fund and deliv­er pro­jects that mat­ter to them.
35. Estab­lish Rur­al Land Use Part­ner­ship (RLUP) draw­ing on exist­ing work and part­ner­ships in early stages of devel­op­ment phase
36. Under­take con­sulta­tion to trans­late into Rur­al Land Use Frame­work (RLUF)
37. Identi­fy poten­tial landown­ers for Land Rights and Respons­ib­il­it­ies State­ment (LRRS) work­shops and intro­duce landown­ers to toolkit
38. Sup­port landown­ers, through work­shops, to self-assess using the toolkit.
39. Engage with com­munit­ies to build know­ledge and upskill about LRRS through workshops
40. Con­sol­id­ate find­ings and learn­ing from this pro­cess to inform deliv­ery phase
41. Design a long term, large scale sus­tain­able fin­an­cing mod­el for peat­land res­tor­a­tion, optim­ised to share rev­en­ues with loc­al com­munit­ies, cre­ate loc­al jobs and cata­lyse con­tract­or invest­ment and scale up Deliv­er­able A: a sum­mary report of the mod­el and present­a­tion to CNPA Seni­or staff and oth­er related stake­hold­ers (ppt. format) Deliv­er­able B: a work­shop with CNPA staff and peat­land con­tract­or rep­res­ent­at­ives (eco­lo­gists and ground­works) to review options for roles and con­tract­ing mech­an­isms that can help to solve the cur­rent con­tract­or bot­tle­neck and enable loc­al job cre­ation (linked to devel­op­ment of mod­el above).
42. Explore options for com­munity shar­ing of bene­fits from peat­land car­bon rev­en­ues Deliv­er­able C: a sum­mary report out­lining the most appro­pri­ate deliv­ery mech­an­isms for com­munity bene­fit shar­ing (ppt format)
43. Test applic­a­tion of privately fin­anced peat­land res­tor­a­tion mod­el to deer estates with three estates in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park. Deliv­er­able D: MOUs draf­ted for three estate landown­ers to gov­ern co-devel­op­ment of pro­ject con­cepts with estate own­ers and CNPA, and indic­ate the route to imple­ment­a­tion phase should concept be approved
44. Invest­ig­ate the viab­il­ity of private fin­an­cing for altern­at­ive nat­ur­al cap­it­al rev­en­ue streams in CNPA (e.g. wood­land cre­ation / nat­ur­al wood­land regen­er­a­tion, nat­ur­al flood man­age­ment, water qual­ity out­comes, biod­iversity) Deliv­er­able E: an assess­ment of the eco­nom­ic viab­il­ity of nat­ur­al cap­it­al rev­en­ue streams, and recom­mend­a­tions as to how viable rev­en­ue streams could be used to sup­port exist­ing CNPA man­age­ment plan objectives
45. Engage with Scot­tish Forestry, land own­ers and land man­agers to review oppor­tun­it­ies for the most effect­ive spend of addi­tion­al funds to be received from Cairngorms 2030 in the deliv­ery phase includ­ing poten­tially ¹³⁄₁₈ to loc­al com­munity aspir­a­tions, will sig­ni­fic­antly improve wood­land biod­iversity in the Park, and cre­ate c4 FTE jobs through roughly a 50/50 mix of plant­ing and nat­ur­al regen­er­a­tion. address­ing gaps in Scot­tish Forestry sup­port to aid innov­a­tion, eg: ripari­an or mont­ane planting
46. Ensure ongo­ing dia­logue with ​‘Land­scape and Com­munit­ies’, ​‘Well­being eco­nomy’ and ​‘out­reach and engage­ment’ strands. 5b Peat­land res­tor­a­tion Restor­ing peat­lands is key in the fight against cli­mate change, improv­ing water qual­ity, flood alle­vi­ation, redu­cing wild­fire and improv­ing the Park’s biod­iversity. This plan aims to con­trib­ute c4,625ha to peat­land res­tor­a­tion. Biod­iversity will be sig­ni­fic­antly improved in the Park. c7 FTE jobs per annum through peat­land res­tor­a­tion will be sup­por­ted. 1. Digit­ised degrade peat map produced
47. Desk based data col­lec­tion to build pro­ject GIS; peat­land res­tor­a­tion aer­i­al sur­vey; data com­pil­a­tion and mapping
48. Liais­on with Land own­ers for inclu­sion in NLHF project
49. Identi­fy pro­ject sites for 5 year pro­gramme — up to 15 estates
50. Desk top review of pro­posed pro­jects and locations
51. Map pro­ject sites and out­line pro­ject brief for 15 estates
52. Con­tinu­ation of new entrants scheme & training
53. Con­trib­ute to Scot­tish-wide Con­tract­or train­ing programme
54. Devel­op con­tract­or train­ing mater­i­als for peat­land res­tor­a­tion tech­niques (videos, guid­ance notes & Machine cab leaflets)
55. Explore options/​practicalities for volun­teer involve­ment with the Bog Squad (Peat­land ACTION fun­ded pro­ject) for sites in Nation­al Park
56. Work­ing with pro­ject (4b) estab­lish a private fin­ance pro­ject to run dur­ing the devel­op­ment phase, work up 1 – 2 poten­tial private fin­ance fun­ded peat­land pro­jects for the deliv­ery phase
57. Land own­er agreements/​MoU pro­duced and signed off ¹⁴⁄₁₈ 5c Cli­mate resi­li­ent catch­ments 5^d Deer Man­age­ment Deliv­er three to four large scale res­tor­a­tion demon­stra­tion pro­jects with­in the River Dee, River Spey & Angus Glens catch­ments which max­im­ise on eco­sys­tem ser­vice pro­vi­sion with­in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park. Ensure pro­jects are multi-bene­fit and incor­por­ate as many eco­sys­tem ser­vices as pos­sible ‑eg recre­ation, hab­it­at link­age, pol­lu­tion reduc­tion in addi­tion to cli­mate change adapt­a­tion (flood reduc­tion, lower­ing water tem­per­at­ure and increas­ing low flow resi­li­ence). Help reduce flood risk and ensure that the rivers con­tin­ue to deliv­er for the people and wild­life that depend upon them. It has three over­all aims: (1) River res­tor­a­tion tech­niques: put­ting in large woody struc­tures to re- cre­ate lost meanders and var­ied hab­it­ats; ripari­an plant­ing to provide shade and sta­bil­ise banks; re-con­nect rivers to their