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Deeside Vis­it­or Man­age­ment Plan

Sum­mer 2020

Over­view

This Plan is a sub­set of the over­all Cairngorms wide plan for the eas­ing of lock­down. This plan will also tie in with spe­cif­ic plans being put in place by indi­vidu­al landown­ers. The times­cales of these spe­cif­ic plans may dif­fer, depend­ing on the capa­city each land man­ager has avail­able to safely reopen facil­it­ies and services.

Times­cales (based on SG Guidance)

Phase I — 28 May until next review on 18 June

• You will also be per­mit­ted to travel short dis­tances for out­door leis­ure and exer­cise but advice to stay with­in a short dis­tance of your loc­al com­munity and travel by walk, wheel and cycle where possible.
• In this phase we are plan­ning to allow unres­tric­ted out­doors exer­cise adher­ing to dis­tan­cing meas­ures and non-con­tact out­door activ­it­ies in the loc­al area — such as golf, hik­ing, canoe­ing, out­door swim­ming, angling — con­sist­ent with the wider rules and guid­ance applic­able to any activ­ity in this phase.
• In this phase we are plan­ning the gradu­al open­ing of drive through food out­lets as well as the re-open­ing of garden centres and plant nurs­er­ies with phys­ic­al dis­tan­cing. Asso­ci­ated cafes (e.g. in garden centres) should not reopen at this stage except for take away.

Phase 2 — Poten­tially from 18 June but no decision until review point

• People will be able to drive loc­ally for leis­ure and exer­cise purposes.
• Pubs and res­taur­ants can open out­door spaces with phys­ic­al dis­tan­cing and increased hygiene routines

Phase 3 — Times­cale Unknown

• In this phase you can drive bey­ond your loc­al area for leis­ure and exer­cise purposes.
• Pubs and res­taur­ants can open indoor spaces with phys­ic­al dis­tan­cing and increased hygiene routines.

Key Times for Vis­it­or Management

• Fri­day — Sun is key vis­it­or times
• School sum­mer hol­i­days from 3 July

On the Ground Staff Resources

Organ­isa­tion	Num­bers	Date Act­ive	Work Under­way
CNPA	3 sea­son­al rangers + volun­teer rangers in time	End June	Patrol routes being developed
Bal­mor­al	2 Rangers	Con­tinu­ing	Ongo­ing
Glen Tanar	1.6 Rangers	Con­tinu­ing	Agreed work­plan, RAs, meth­od of work, & engage­ment strategy
NTS	TBC	TBC
Police Scot­land
SNH
FLS
Aber­deen­shire Council	One Ranger cov­er­ing the Aber­deen­shire area who is cur­rently non-essen­tial and as such work­ing from home. I full-time Ranger for Marr area.	In post. Hot­spot patrols to begin 29th May, Fri­day to Sunday, staff resource allowing.	Hot­spot mon­it­or­ing patrol routes developed for all Aber­deen­shire areas. Routes will be respons­ive to demand across Aberdeenshire.

Key Hot­spots

Key Coun­tryside Loc­a­tion	Risk	Man­ager	Car Park capa­cit­ies & oth­er info	Toi­lets & pro­posed reopen­ing date (where known)
Muir of Dinnet		SNH	Car park capa­city is 37 and our pre­ferred COV­ID capa­city would be 15	Closed at present
Cam­bus o May		FLS	30 car capacity	No toi­lets
Glen Tanar		Glen Tanar Estate	Top car park 5 cars (cur­rently closed, as next to com­munity, pro­pos­al is to keep it closed)
		Glen Tanar Char­it­able Trust GTE	Vis­it­or Centre 35 (cur­rently closed)	Male xl urin­al xl toi­let + xl washbasin
		GTE	Swans Neck 6 (open) + over­flow addi­tion 20 (cur­rently closed, being cut/​prepared)	Female x1 + xl wash­bas­in + dis­abled x1 + xl wash­bas­in (shared entrance)
			Golf Course 000’s (cur­rently closed, will need a cut), provides surge capa­city — would need Mar­shalling from Bridge of Ess, past GT House back onto Glen road by the Estate office	Clean­ing capa­city is a sig­ni­fic­ant con­straint on usage
Din­net		COAT	20 cars	Open
Crath­ie		Bal­mor­al	Used mainly for Castle vis­it­ors but increas­ingly for the Cairns walks — 136 cars, 5 camper vans plus 8 coaches so pretty much space for 150 cars, we also have over­flow capacity.	Loos/​VIC — cur­rently are closed no plans to reopen yet.
Loch Muick		Bal­mor­al Estate	Glen Muick 60 spaces plus coach park, no form­al mark­ing so dens­ity var­ies con­sid­er­ably. You may be aware that we have, through OATS, applied for plan­ning per­mis­sion to con­struct a new ​“sum­mer car park in the field west of the Spit­tal burn. It strikes me that this could, with min­im­al work be a tem­por­ary over­flow car park if we need addi­tion­al capa­city and to ensure that the road stays open.	A mem­ber of the Ranger team has volun­teered to clean the loos sub­ject to Aber­deen­shire Coun­cil doing a deep clean before they open. The vis­it­or centre would remain closed.
Kei­loch Car Park		Inver­cauld Estate	40 spaces	WC Closed
Cal­later		Inver­cauld Estate	20 spaces
Linn of Dee		NTS	Linn of Dee 76 cars. Quoi­ch 20 cars.
Layby’s on roads		Aber­deen­shire Coun­cil & landowners	Vari­ous	Mix­ture of open and blocked

Key Vil­lages

Vil­lage	Risk	Man­ager	Car Park capa­cit­ies	Toi­lets & pro­posed reopen­ing date (where known)
Aboyne		Aber­deen­shire Council	Sta­tion Square (Front) 41 free spaces 2 elec­tric vehicle charge points (50kw)	Bal­later Road, AB34 5HY with dis­abled & baby change. Date tbc
			Sta­tion Square (Rear) 20 free spaces (unmarked)
			Shop­ping Square 56 free spaces 4 dis­abled spaces 10 non-covered cycle spaces
Bal­later		Aber­deen­shire Council	Church Square	The Square, AB35 5NE with dis­abled and baby change. Date tbc
Brae­mar		Aber­deen­shire Council	45 free spaces 6 free lorry/​bus spaces 2 dis­abled spaces
			Sta­tion Square (Front) 19 free spaces 4 dis­abled spaces
			Sta­tion Square (Rear) 26 free spaces
			Bal­nel­lan Road 28 free spaces 3 dis­abled spaces I elec­tric vehicle charge point (50kw)	Bal­nel­lan Road, AB35 5YP with dis­abled and baby change. Date tbc
			The Mews 18 free spaces (unmarked) 3 dis­abled spaces 14 non-covered cycle spaces

Key Actions to progress

Sig­nage

Action	Own­er	Times­cale
Con­sist­ent sig­nage for sites & access to be developed and dis­trib­uted e.g. car park full.	Adam-Streeter-Smith, CNPA	Tem­por­ary signs dis­trib­uted. Con­tract let for devel­op­ing suite to be avail­able by mid/​end of June. In pro­gress. Com­pany con­tac­ted for quote
3x vari­able mes­sage signs to be deployed on Deeside in con­junc­tion with sign at Dinnet	Pete Crane, CNPA Richard Mur­ray, AC

Mes­saging (link to main cairngorms wide comms plan)

Action	Own­er	Times­cale
Con­sist­ent mes­sages deployed across part­ners & CNPA web­site kept up to date with latest inform­a­tion. Start to add what car parks, toi­lets etc are open where at the right time	Fran­coise VB, CNPA + part­ners comms	Ongo­ing. Already done for all week­ends so far

Car park capa­city & tem­por­ary car parks

Action	Own­er	Times­cale
Key landown­ers (NTS, Glen Tanar, Bal­mor­al) to estab­lish poten­tial for tem­por­ary car parks, loc­a­tion and capa­city to use if neces­sary later in the summer	Landown­ers	Ongo­ing.

Web­cams

Action	Own­er	Times­cale
Web­cams to be deployed where pos­sible to provide real-time inform­a­tion. Hos­ted on CNPA web­site and oth­ers. Poten­tial to link to user friendly traffic light sys­tem for car parks e.g. red full, green open and available.	Adam Street Smith, CNPA + landowners	By end of June 2020. Details being estab­lished of connectivity

Toi­lets and Facilities

Action	Own­er	Times­cale
Key pub­lic toi­lets to reopen safely in due course. Key issue and need to get agreed guid­ance of how to do this safely	Loc­al Author­it­ies & site managers	Ongo­ing but review pos­i­tion pri­or to 18 June.
Inform­a­tion to be made clear where bins are not being picked up. Take your lit­ter home key message	Site man­agers & AC	Mes­sage in all comms

Act­ive Travel

Action	Own­er	Times­cale
Devel­op a Spaces for People applic­a­tion poten­tially around Loch Muick and Linn of Dee roads to make them cycle friendly	Pete Crane, CNPA Belinda Miller, AC	Pro­pos­al in devel­op­ment for applic­a­tion in June if going ahead