Cairngorms National Park Local Development Plan Reporters\' Recommendations

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Pro­posed Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan Exam­in­a­tion Report to Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity – 24 August 2020

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001 — General	1. Modi­fy Page 37 of the Pro­posed Plan by adding the fol­low­ing text at the start of Para­graph 4.43: ​“In appro­pri­ate cases the Nation­al Park Author­ity may require applic­ants to pre­pare and sub­mit an assess­ment of the net eco­nom­ic impact of their pro­pos­al, to help inform the Authority’s con­clu­sions on the over­all impacts of the development.”	13
002 — Intro­duc­tion, Vis­ion and Strategy	1. Modi­fy Para­graph 2.3 on Page 12 by re-word­ing the first bul­let point to read: ​“the spe­cial qual­it­ies of the Park are pro­tec­ted from devel­op­ment that would sig­ni­fic­antly erode or harm them, and are enhanced by new devel­op­ment where possible”.	27
003 — Policy 1 New Hous­ing Development	1. Modi­fy the sup­port­ing text for Policy 1 New Hous­ing Devel­op­ment by sub­sti­tut­ing Table 1: Hous­ing Sup­ply Tar­get on page 26 with the following:	Loc­al Authority	2020 – 2024			2025 – 2029			2030 – 2039
— — — — — — — -	— — — — — — —	— — — — — — —	— — -	— — — — — — —	— — — — — — —	— — -	— — — — — — —	— — — — — — —	— — -
	Mar­ket	Afford­able	Total	Mar­ket	Afford­able	Total	Mar­ket	Afford­able	Total
Aber­deen­shire	40	35	75	26	23	49	47	38	85
Angus	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
High­land	144	165	309	118	100	218	236	200	436
Moray	18	10	28	14	7	21	22	13	35
Perth & Kinross	13	14	27	9	7	16	18	14	32
Total	215	224	439	167	137	304	323	265	588
	87
	2. Modi­fy the sup­port­ing text for Policy 1 New Hous­ing Devel­op­ment by sub­sti­tut­ing Table 2: Hous­ing Land Require­ment based on a gen­er­os­ity level of 10% on page 26 with the following:	Loc­al Authority	2020 – 2024	2025 – 2029	2030 – 2039
— — — — — — — — — — —	— — — — — — —	— — — — — — —	— — — — — — —
	(Indic­at­ive target)
Aber­deen­shire	83	54	94
Angus	0	0	0
High­land	340	240	480
Moray	31	23	39
Perth & Kinross	30	18	35
Total	484	335	648
Note: the totals are the sum of each Loc­al Author­ity area require­ment rather than a 10% increase of the total Hous­ing Sup­ply Tar­get from Table 1
3. Modi­fy Appendix 1 Hous­ing alloc­a­tions and hous­ing land sup­ply on Pages 217 and 218 by sub­sti­tut­ing the table of fig­ures with the following:
Set­tle­ment Site Ref/​Name	Total capa­city	Effect­ive Supply	Effect­ive Supply	Effect­ive Supply	Effect­ive Supply
		Pre-2020	2020 – 2024	2025 – 2029	Post 2030
Aber­deen­shire
Bal­later H1: Mon­al­trie Park	250	0	90	90	70
C1: Former School	26	26	0	0	0
Brae­mar H1: Chapel Brae	6	(3) 0	(3) 6	0	0
H2: St Andrews Terrace	30	0	0	21	0
H3: Kin­drochit Court	11	0	11	0	0
H4: Chapel Brae	6	0	6	0	0
H5: North	0	0	(15) 0	(20) 0	(10) 0
Brae­mar H1: Land to East	(30) (45)	(5) 0	(10) 15	0	0
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Aber­deen­shire Total	344	26	137	111	70
	(364)	(34)	(64)	(66)	(210)
High­land
Aviemore H1: Dalfaber	10	0	10	0	0
H2: Dal­faber	83	0	40	31	12
M1: Aviemore High­land Resort	214	10	100	104	0
ACM: An Camas Mòr	1500	0	(150) 90	150	1260
					(1200)
LTH 1 & 2 North Aviemore	(400) 0
Grant­own-on-Spey H1: Beachen Court	53	42	11	0	0
H2: Castle Road	50	5	45	0	0
Kin­gussie H1: Ard­broilach Road/​Craig an Darach	300	10	50	50	190
New­ton­more H1: Perth Road / Sta­tion Road	120	20	43	38	19
Carr-Bridge H1: Carr Road	(36) 47	0	(36) 47	0	0
H2:Crannich Park	23	23	0	0	0
Crom­dale H1: Kirk Road	20	0	0	6	14
H2 Auchroisk Park	22	6	10	4	(0) 2
Dul­nain Bridge H1: Land West of Play Area	20	0	0	20	0
H2: Land Adja­cent to A938	20	0	20	0	0
Kin­craig H1: Oppos­ite School	40	4	15	15	6
Nethy Bridge H1: Lettoch Road	20	0	20	0	0
H2: Lyn­stock Crescent	4	0	4	0	0
Dal­whin­nie H1: Land by Garage	6	0	6	0	0
Lag­gan H1: Land adja­cent to A86	8	0	0	0	0
High­land Total	2560	120	511	418	1503
	(2942)	(560)			(1441)
Moray
Tomin­toul H1: Con­glass Lane	8	0	8	0	0
H2: Lecht Drive	8	0	0	8	0
Moray Total	16	0	8	8	0
Perth & Kinross
Blair Atholl H1: Old Bridge of Tilt	20	0	20	0	0
H2: Main Road	10	0	8	2	0
H3: Land North of Little Orchard	8	(8) 0	(0) 8	0	0
Calv­ine C1: Old School
Perth & Kinross Total	(30) 38	(8) 0	(28) 36	2	0
CNPA Total	2958	146	692	539	1573
	(3351)	(154)	(660)	(494)	(1651)
Note: a) Fig­ures in bold text mark where a change has been made — pre­vi­ous fig­ure in brack­ets. b) The effect­ive sup­ply for H2 Auchroisk Park does not add up to the total capa­city fig­ure and for arith­met­ic­al pur­poses the miss­ing 2 units are added to the post 2030 sup­ply. c) No effect­ive units are attrib­uted to Lag­gan H1 dur­ing the 3 periods.

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	4. Modi­fy Policy 1.2 Hous­ing devel­op­ment in rur­al groups on Page 22 by adding to the text in brack­ets in the first sen­tence as fol­lows: ​“Pro­pos­als for new hous­ing devel­op­ment which adds to an exist­ing rur­al group (three or more build­ings at least one of which is a dwell­ing­house) will be con­sidered favour­ably where:…”
	5. Modi­fy the sup­port­ing text for Policy 1 New Hous­ing Devel­op­ment on Page 24 by adjust­ing the text with­in the red box so that it makes ref­er­ence to the full range of issues to be addressed by the Sup­ple­ment­ary Guid­ance: Hous­ing and omits any ref­er­ence to the long term hous­ing sites as fol­lows: ​“Sup­ple­ment­ary Guid­ance (Hous­ing) will be pro­duced to sup­port Policy 1 by provid­ing fur­ther detail on how best to deliv­er new hous­ing. This includes advice on dif­fer­ent types of afford­able hous­ing, main­tain­ing hous­ing as afford­able hous­ing in per­petu­ity, on site and off site afford­able hous­ing pro­vi­sion, fin­an­cial con­tri­bu­tions to afford­able hous­ing, and where flex­ib­il­ity may be applied to the afford­able hous­ing per­cent­age require­ments. It will also provide fur­ther advice on devel­op­ment with­in rur­al groups, spe­cial­ist pro­vi­sion and replace­ment dwellings.”
	6. Modi­fy Policy 1.5 Afford­able hous­ing on Page 22 by repla­cing the last word in cri­terion b) so that it reads as fol­lows: ​“b) 25% of the total num­ber of dwell­ings on the devel­op­ment site in all oth­er areas of the Nation­al Park.”
	7. Modi­fy Policy 1.6 Afford­able hous­ing excep­tion sites on Page 23 by divid­ing the first para­graph into two para­graphs (retain­ing the exist­ing second para­graph unchanged), expand­ing the policy cri­ter­ia and set­ting them in list form as fol­lows: ​“Devel­op­ment of 100% afford­able hous­ing sites will be sup­por­ted in loc­a­tions that would not nor­mally be used for hous­ing only where:

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	i) it is jus­ti­fied by evid­ence of unmet loc­al need at that loc­a­tion and; ii) the hous­ing is designed to address that need. Any plan­ning applic­a­tions for such hous­ing must be accom­pan­ied by evid­ence of the unmet loc­al need at that loc­a­tion such as com­munity needs assess­ments, hous­ing needs and demand assess­ments or oth­er rel­ev­ant inform­a­tion avail­able at the time of the application.”
	8. Modi­fy Policy 1.9 Replace­ment Houses on Page 23 by remov­ing cri­terion a) and adjust­ing the remain­ing text as fol­lows: ​“Pro­pos­als to replace exist­ing hous­ing stock will be sup­por­ted where the new house incor­por­ates the foot­print of the ori­gin­al, unless an altern­at­ive adja­cent site would min­im­ise any neg­at­ive envir­on­ment­al, land­scape or amen­ity effects of the development.”
	9. Modi­fy the sup­port­ing text for Policy 1 New Hous­ing Devel­op­ment on Page 30 by adding an addi­tion­al sen­tence to the end of Para­graph 4.25 as fol­lows: ​“Any pro­pos­al that will res­ult in the loss of a lis­ted build­ing or unlis­ted build­ing with­in a con­ser­va­tion area that makes a pos­it­ive con­tri­bu­tion to its char­ac­ter will need to com­ply with Policy 9.”
	10. Modi­fy Policy 1.10 Hous­ing for gypsies and trav­el­lers on Page 23 by adding addi­tion­al text to the title and the amend­ing the text of policy as fol­lows: ​“1.10 Hous­ing for gypsies, trav­el­lers and trav­el­ling show people Pro­pos­als for the devel­op­ment of sites for gypsies, trav­el­lers and trav­el­ling show people will be favour­ably con­sidered where the need and loc­a­tion have been iden­ti­fied in the rel­ev­ant Loc­al Author­ity Hous­ing Strategy.”

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	11. Modi­fy the sup­port­ing text for Policy 1 New Hous­ing Devel­op­ment on Page 25 by insert­ing addi­tion­al text at the end of para­graph 4.9 as fol­lows: ​“The HNDA pro­cess has not iden­ti­fied any need to alloc­ate land in the Nation­al Park for gypsy, trav­el­ler or trav­el­ling show people accom­mod­a­tion. In the event that this situ­ation should change dur­ing the life­time of the plan any new devel­op­ment would be assessed under Policy 1.10.”
	12. Modi­fy Policy 1 New Hous­ing Devel­op­ment on Page 24 by delet­ing Policy 1.11 Long Term Des­ig­na­tions in its entirety.
	13. Modi­fy the sup­port­ing text for Policy 1 New Hous­ing Devel­op­ment on Page 27_​by delet­ing para­graph 4.12 in its entirety and adjust­ing the para­graph num­ber­ing accordingly.
	14. Modi­fy Policy 1.4 Design­ing for Afford­ab­il­ity on Page 22 by adding the fol­low­ing word­ing to the title of the policy: ​“Policy 1.4 Design­ing for afford­ab­il­ity and spe­cial­ist needs”
	15. Modi­fy the sup­port­ing text for Policy 1 New Hous­ing Devel­op­ment on Page 27 by adding an addi­tion­al para­graph after Para­graph 4.15 and adjust­ing the para­graph num­ber­ing accord­ingly: ​“Con­sid­er­a­tion also needs to be giv­en to the aging and dis­abled pop­u­la­tion of the Nation­al Park. Pro­pos­als should demon­strate how they will sup­port the deliv­ery of spe­cial­ist hous­ing, such as access­ible or extra care hous­ing. This may form part of the afford­able hous­ing require­ment, for example where a spe­cial­ist prop­erty is needed by a hous­ing association.”
004 – Policy 2		110

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sup­port­ing eco­nom­ic growth	1. Modi­fy Fig­ure 7 Sig­ni­fic­ant tour­ist infra­struc­ture on Page 36 by identi­fy­ing on the map the gen­er­al loc­a­tion of the Strath­spey Rail­way and its pro­posed exten­sion as ​‘oth­er import­ant vis­it­or infrastructure’.
	2. Modi­fy Policy 2.1 Retail Devel­op­ment and high foot­fall gen­er­at­ing uses on Page 32 by chan­ging the title to ​“Town Centres First”
	3. Modi­fy Policy 2.1 Retail Devel­op­ment and high foot­fall gen­er­at­ing uses on Page 32 by amend­ing the second para­graph as fol­lows: ​“Devel­op­ments should have no adverse impact on neigh­bour­ing prop­er­ties and should sup­port the vibrancy, vital­ity and viab­il­ity of exist­ing town centres or set­tle­ments. Excep­tions to this should demon­strate social or com­munity need for the pro­pos­al. The poten­tial cumu­lat­ive impact of sim­il­ar pro­pos­als will also be taken into account.”
	4. Modi­fy Para­graphs 4.31 to 4.33 on Page 34 by chan­ging the sub­head­ing to ​“Town Centres First”
	5. Modi­fy Policy 2.2 Tour­ist accom­mod­a­tion on Page 32 by insert­ing an addi­tion­al phrase into the first sen­tence with the fol­low­ing: ​“Pro­pos­als for tour­ist related accom­mod­a­tion, oth­er than dwell­ings built to res­id­en­tial stand­ards, will be sup­por­ted where they:”
	6. Modi­fy Policy 2.2 Tour­ist accom­mod­a­tion on Page 32 by adjust­ing cri­terion a) as fol­lows: ​“a) have no adverse envir­on­ment­al or amen­ity impacts on the site or neigh­bour­ing areas.”
	7. Modi­fy Policy 2.3 Oth­er tour­ism and leis­ure devel­op­ments on Page 32 by adjust­ing cri­terion a) as follows:

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	“a) have no adverse envir­on­ment­al or amen­ity impacts on the site or neigh­bour­ing areas.”
	8. Modi­fy Policy 2.4 Oth­er eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment on Page 32 by insert­ing a new cri­terion as fol­lows: ​“a) have no adverse envir­on­ment­al or amen­ity impacts on the site or neigh­bour­ing areas.”; and there­after retain­ing the exist­ing cri­ter­ia but as items b) and c) respectively.
	9. Modi­fy the Gloss­ary of the plan on Page 220 by insert­ing after the defin­i­tion of Hous­ing Asso­ci­ation the fol­low­ing defin­i­tion: ​“Hut : A simple build­ing used inter­mit­tently as recre­ation­al accom­mod­a­tion (ie. not a prin­cip­al res­id­ence); hav­ing an intern­al floor area of no more than 30 square metres; con­struc­ted from low impact mater­i­als; gen­er­ally not con­nec­ted to mains water, elec­tri­city or sew­er­age; and built in such a way that it is remov­able with little or no trace at the end of its life. Huts may be built singly or in groups.”
005 — Pro­tect­ing the environment	1. Modi­fy Policy 3.3 Sus­tain­able Design on Page 38 by adding the fol­low­ing cri­terion: ​“I) pro­mote good health and well-being”.	168
	2. Modi­fy Policy 3.5 Con­vert­ing exist­ing build­ing stock on Page 39 by adding the fol­low­ing cri­terion: ​“c) and does not intro­duce a more vul­ner­able use in terms of flood risk”.
	3. Modi­fy Policy 4: Nat­ur­al Her­it­age by repla­cing all ref­er­ences to ​‘Natura’, ​‘Natura 2000’ and ​‘Natura sites’ with the term ​‘European sites’.

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	4. Modi­fy Policy 4.1 Inter­na­tion­al des­ig­na­tions on Page 44 by adding addi­tion­al sub-para­graph: ​“c) and com­pens­at­ory meas­ures are provided to ensure that the over­all coher­ence of the net­work of European sites is protected.”
	5. Modi­fy Policy 4.1 Inter­na­tion­al des­ig­na­tions on Page 44 by adding the fol­low­ing text at the end of the policy: “(or com­pli­ance with the rel­ev­ant pro­cess estab­lished fol­low­ing the UK’s depar­ture from the EU)”.
	6. Modi­fy Policy 4.3 Wood­lands on Page 44 by amend­ing the first sen­tence of the policy as fol­lows: ​“Wood­land remov­al for devel­op­ment will only be per­mit­ted where it com­plies with the Scot­tish Government’s Policy on the Con­trol of Wood­land Remov­al and where remov­al of the wood­land would achieve clearly defined addi­tion­al pub­lic benefits.”
	7. Modi­fy Policy 4.3 Wood­lands on Page 44 by amend­ing the second para­graph so that it starts: ​“There will be a strong pre­sump­tion against remov­al of ancient semi-nat­ur­al wood­land, includ­ing sites in the Ancient Wood­land Invent­ory, which is con­sidered to be an irre­place­able resource. Only in excep­tion­al cir­cum­stances will loss of ancient semi-nat­ur­al wood­land be permitted..”
	8. Modi­fy Policy 4.3 Wood­lands on Page 44 by repla­cing the ref­er­ences to ​“AWI” in cri­terion b) with ​“ancient semi-nat­ur­al woodland”.
	9. Modi­fy Policy 4.3 Wood­lands on Page 44 by amend­ing the last sen­tence to state: ​“Where remov­al of ancient semi-nat­ur­al wood­land is deemed accept­able, com­pens­a­tion for such loss (involving the plant­ing of nat­ive spe­cies) will be mandatory.”

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	10. Modi­fy Policy 4.5 Oth­er biod­iversity on Page 45 by repla­cing ​“Annexes II or V of the EC Hab­it­ats Dir­ect­ive or Annex 1 of the EC Birds Dir­ect­ive” with ​“Sched­ules 2 and 4 of The Con­ser­va­tion (Nat­ur­al Hab­it­ats &c.) Reg­u­la­tions 1994 (as amended in Scotland)”.
	11. Modi­fy Para­graph 4.66 – Mit­ig­a­tion on Page 47 by amend­ing the word­ing in the second sen­tence to refer to ​“equal or high­er quality”.
	12. Modi­fy Para­graph 4.66 – Mit­ig­a­tion on Page 47 by amend­ing the third sen­tence to read: ​“Where a devel­op­ment affects a des­ig­nated site, the policy applies wheth­er or not the devel­op­ment is inside or out­side the bound­ary of the des­ig­nated site.”
	13. Modi­fy the Gloss­ary on Pages 220 – 223 to include the fol­low­ing defin­i­tion of Wild Land Areas: ​“Wild Land Areas were iden­ti­fied by Scot­tish Nat­ur­al Her­it­age in 2014. They are the most extens­ive areas where high wild­ness qual­it­ies (per­ceived nat­ur­al­ness, rug­ged­ness, remote­ness and lack of human arte­facts) can be found. They are a non-stat­utory des­ig­na­tion con­sidered to be of nation­al importance.”
	14. Modi­fy Para­graph 4.70 on Page 50 by adding the fol­low­ing text at the end of the para­graph: ​“Almost half of the Nation­al Park falls with­in wild land areas iden­ti­fied in the 2014 SNH map of wild land areas. This policy intends to safe­guard the char­ac­ter of those iden­ti­fied wild land areas and more widely the qual­ity of wild­ness with­in the Nation­al Park.”
	15. Modi­fy Policy 5.2 Private roads and ways on Page 50 to read: ​“There will be a pre­sump­tion against new private roads and ways in open moor­land areas unless: a) it can be demon­strated that they are essen­tial for land man­age­ment pur­poses; AND

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	b) they are designed to min­im­ise land­scape and envir­on­ment­al impacts, and they con­serve and enhance the land­scape char­ac­ter and spe­cial land­scape qual­it­ies of the Nation­al Park includ­ing wild­ness; OR, WHERE APPRO­PRI­ATE, c) they form part of a pro­gramme of works includ­ing the remov­al of oth­er exist­ing private roads and ways to deliv­er a net bene­fit for the spe­cial land­scape qual­it­ies of the Nation­al Park includ­ing wildness.”
	16. Modi­fy Para­graph 4.74 on Page 51 by amend­ing the second sen­tence so that it reads: ​“They are often the most obvi­ous man-made fea­tures with­in those land­scapes and can have a sig­ni­fic­ant impact on land­scape char­ac­ter, spe­cial land­scape qual­it­ies and wildness.”
	17. Modi­fy Para­graph 4.74 on Page 51 by re-phras­ing the last sen­tence to read: ​“Where they are shown to be essen­tial for land man­age­ment pur­poses, well designed and con­struc­ted tracks should still min­im­ise land­scape impacts and dam­age to habitats.”
	18. Modi­fy Para­graph 4.76, second sen­tence on Page 51 by chan­ging the word ​‘inev­it­able’ to ​‘likely’, and the word ​‘desired’ to ​‘required’.
	19. Modi­fy Policy 9.1 Lis­ted Build­ings on Page 66 by includ­ing the fol­low­ing word­ing before the final para­graph: ​“Devel­op­ments that would res­ult in a sig­ni­fic­ant adverse impact or the demoli­tion of a lis­ted build­ing should fol­low His­tor­ic Envir­on­ment Scotland’s good prac­tice guid­ance on the Use and Adapt­a­tion of Lis­ted Build­ings and the Demoli­tion of Lis­ted Buildings.”
	20. Modi­fy Para­graph 4.118 on Page 68 by insert­ing the fol­low­ing addi­tion­al text after the first

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	sen­tence: ​“The adapt­a­tion, alter­a­tion, exten­sion and even par­tial demoli­tion of the build­ing are all options which can, in the right cir­cum­stances, form part of the solution.”
	21. Modi­fy Policy 9.2 Cul­tur­al and his­tor­ic des­ig­na­tions on Page 66 by delet­ing the second last para­graph below part c), and sub­sti­tut­ing the fol­low­ing: ​“Any works dir­ectly affect­ing a des­ig­nated Sched­uled Monu­ment requires Sched­uled Monu­ment Con­sent (SMC) which is obtained from His­tor­ic Envir­on­ment Scot­land. Advice on the SMC pro­cess and require­ments should be sought at an early stage.”
	22. Modi­fy Policy 10.1 Water resources on Page 70 by amend­ing cri­terion b) to read: ​“treat sur­face water and foul water dis­charge sep­ar­ately. Devel­op­ment is required to treat sur­face water in accord­ance with the cur­rent CIRIA SuDS Manu­al; and…”
	23. Modi­fy the final para­graph of Policy 10.1 Water resources on Page 70 by amend­ing the word­ing of the second sen­tence to read: ​“An appro­pri­ately sized buf­fer strip will require to be retained around all water fea­tures and designed and man­aged to con­trib­ute pos­it­ively towards sus­tain­able placemaking.”
	24. Modi­fy Para­graph 4.135 on Page 74 by adding the fol­low­ing at the end of the para­graph: ​“Applic­ants should con­sult Scot­tish Water’s Sur­face Water Policy on the appro­pri­ate treat­ment of sur­face water and foul water discharge.”
	25. Modi­fy Policy 10.2 Flood­ing on Page 70 by adding the fol­low­ing para­graph after the ref­er­ence to

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	water resi­li­ent mater­i­als and con­struc­tion: ​“Con­sid­er­a­tion should also be giv­en to the type of devel­op­ment pro­posed. For some land uses there may be addi­tion­al flood risk require­ments or con­straints, and an assess­ment of the low to medi­um risk area may be needed. Devel­op­ment should only be per­mit­ted for uses of equal or less vul­ner­ab­il­ity in accord­ance with SEPA’s Land Use Vul­ner­ab­il­ity Guidance.”
	26. Modi­fy Para­graph 4.139 on Page 75 by adding the fol­low­ing sen­tence at the begin­ning of the para­graph: ​“The Nation­al Park Author­ity aims to apply the prin­ciples of nat­ur­al flood man­age­ment which are set out in SEPA’s Nat­ur­al Flood Man­age­ment Hand­book, and to pre­vent devel­op­ment which is likely to be affected by flood­ing or to increase the like­li­hood of flood­ing elsewhere.”
	27. Modi­fy Para­graph 4.140 on Page 75 by adding the fol­low­ing sen­tence at the end of the para­graph: ​“How­ever, the policy recog­nises that some forms of devel­op­ment are less sens­it­ive or even com­pat­ible with areas at risk of flood­ing; this is explained in the SEPA Flood Risk and Land Use Vul­ner­ab­il­ity Guid­ance 2018. For example, the guid­ance states that less vul­ner­able uses, such as shops, fin­an­cial and pro­fes­sion­al ser­vices, res­taur­ants and cafés, may be accept­able in areas of medi­um to high risk under cer­tain circumstances.”
	28. Modi­fy Para­graph 4.134 on Page 74 by adding the fol­low­ing at the end of the para­graph: ​“The policy of both SEPA and Scot­tish Water is that all devel­op­ment where pos­sible should con­nect to the pub­lic drain­age net­work. This is to pre­vent the pro­lif­er­a­tion of sep­tic tanks and any poten­tial asso­ci­ated degrad­a­tion of the ground and water envir­on­ment. This is par­tic­u­larly rel­ev­ant in instances where con­nec­tion to the exist­ing pub­lic net­work is reas­on­able and

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	prac­tic­al. In instances where this is not cur­rently pos­sible, developers should con­tact Scot­tish Water to ensure their private treat­ment schemes can be adop­ted (where applic­able) and designed in such a way that con­nec­tion to the pub­lic net­work may be achieved eas­ily at a future point. Rur­al hous­ing devel­op­ment, remote from pub­lic drain­age net­works, that require a sep­tic tank should be con­sul­ted upon with the rel­ev­ant Loc­al Author­ity and registered with SEPA.”
	29. Modi­fy Policy 10.6 Min­er­als on Page 71 by insert­ing a new cri­terion into the second part of the policy after cri­terion a): ​“the pro­pos­al fully addresses the poten­tial impacts of the devel­op­ment (and cumu­lat­ive impact with oth­er min­er­al and land­fill sites in the area), includ­ing dis­turb­ance, dis­rup­tion and noise, blast­ing and vibra­tion, and poten­tial pol­lu­tion of land, air and water, impacts on loc­al com­munit­ies, indi­vidu­al houses and sens­it­ive recept­ors, impacts on the loc­al and nation­al eco­nomy, effects on nat­ur­al her­it­age, hab­it­ats and the his­tor­ic envir­on­ment, land­scape and visu­al impacts and trans­port impacts; and”
	30. Modi­fy Para­graph 4.130 on Page 73 by amend­ing the text to read: ​“The policy aims to reduce the over­all resource use foot­print of the Nation­al Park, pro­tect resources where appro­pri­ate and ensure we use and man­age nat­ur­al resources in an effect­ive way. It will assist the sus­tain­able pro­vi­sion of a sup­ply of raw mater­i­als and ensure that there is a min­im­um 10-year land bank of reserves for con­struc­tion aggreg­ates. It will pro­tect what is import­ant about our resources, while facil­it­at­ing appro­pri­ate devel­op­ment in ways which cre­ate a net pos­it­ive out­come. It com­ple­ments legis­lat­ive oblig­a­tions bey­ond the plan­ning act, and allows suf­fi­cient flex­ib­il­ity to adapt to changes and devel­op­ments in tech­no­logy and research asso­ci­ated with the pro­tec­tion and exploit­a­tion of resources.”

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	31. Modi­fy Policy 10.7 Car­bon sinks and stores on Page 72 by amend­ing the word­ing of cri­terion c) to read: ​“include an assess­ment of the likely effects of devel­op­ment on green­house gas emis­sions and identi­fy appro­pri­ate mit­ig­a­tion meas­ures to min­im­ise the release of stored car­bon as a res­ult of disturbance.”
	32. Modi­fy Para­graph 4.137 – Water Frame­work Dir­ect­ive on Page 74 by adding the fol­low­ing word­ing at the end of the para­graph: ​“The optim­um width of a buf­fer strip adja­cent to a water­body will be affected by the width of the water course/​size of water body, site con­di­tions, topo­graphy and addi­tion­al func­tions. They should be a min­im­um of 6m but could be wider than 20m on major rivers or dynam­ic water courses to allow them to fol­low their nat­ur­al course. Where there are oppor­tun­it­ies to under­take res­tor­a­tion of straightened or realigned water­courses, a wider buf­fer may also be required.”
	33. Modi­fy Para­graph 4.138 – Ground Water depend­ant ter­restri­al eco­sys­tems on Page 75 to read: ​“Scot­tish Plan­ning Policy, para­graph 194 states that ​‘the plan­ning sys­tem should: … pro­mote pro­tec­tion and improve­ment of the water envir­on­ment including…wetlands… in a sus­tain­able and co-ordin­ated way’. Wet­lands are also pro­tec­ted under the Water Frame­work Dir­ect­ive. Phase 1 Hab­it­at Sur­veys should be used to identi­fy if wet­lands are present on or adja­cent to a devel­op­ment site. If present, a more detailed Nation­al Veget­a­tion Clas­si­fic­a­tion sur­vey will be required to identi­fy if the wet­lands are depend­ent on ground­wa­ter or sur­face water. Wherever pos­sible, all types of wet­lands should be avoided by devel­op­ment through the inclu­sion of an appro­pri­ate buf­fer – oth­er­wise fur­ther assess­ment and appro­pri­ate mit­ig­a­tion will be required.”

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006 – Deliv­er­ing infrastructure	1. Modi­fy Para­graph 4.87 – Apply­ing the Policy on Page 56 by adding the fol­low­ing bul­let point: ​“details of new vehicle tracks where these are required. These should include the pro­posed line, con­struc­tion meth­ods and plans for restoration.”	192
	2. Modi­fy cri­terion c) of Policy 7.1: All renew­able energy devel­op­ments on Page 58 so that it reads: ​“they con­serve and enhance the spe­cial qual­it­ies of the Park, includ­ing wildness”
	3. Modi­fy Para­graph 4.94 – Apply­ing the Policy on Page 60 so that it reads: ​“This policy will be used in con­junc­tion with oth­er policies in the Plan to ensure that the devel­op­ment (includ­ing any vehicle access roads or tracks) is well designed, and..”
	4. Modi­fy item g) of Policy 3.3 Sus­tain­able Design on Page 38 so that it reads: ​“incor­por­ate access­ible mul­ti­func­tion­al open space of appro­pri­ate quant­ity and qual­ity to meet the needs of devel­op­ment and provide green infra­struc­ture to con­nect to wider blue/​green networks.”
	5. Modi­fy Policy 8.1 New devel­op­ment on Page 62 so that it reads: ​“Devel­op­ments of sport and recre­ation facil­it­ies, allot­ments and com­munity grow­ing spaces, diver­si­fic­a­tion of….will be sup­por­ted where…”
	6. Modi­fy Policy 11: Developer Oblig­a­tions on Page 76 by adding the fol­low­ing to the list of items that con­tri­bu­tions may be required towards: ​“mit­ig­a­tion of impacts on nat­ur­al heritage”

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