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Development plan scheme 2025

Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme Novem­ber 2025

Cairngorms Nation­al Park | Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

Con­tents

Intro­duc­tion 3 Plan­ning in the Nation­al Park 4 The new plan­ning sys­tem 7 The next Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan 9 Par­ti­cip­a­tion State­ment 12 Invit­a­tion to do Loc­al Place Plans 14 Con­tact details 15 Appendix 1: Detailed timetable 16

Intro­duc­tion

Every Loc­al Author­ity must pro­duce a Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme, at least annu­ally, as required by sec­tion 20B of the Plan­ning (Scot­land) Act 1997 as amended by the Plan­ning etc. (Scot­land) Act 2006, the Plan­ning (Scot­land) Act 2019), and the Town and Coun­try Plan­ning (Devel­op­ment Plan­ning) (Scot­land) Reg­u­la­tions 2008.

The Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme is an import­ant com­mu­nic­a­tions tool. It is key to sup­port­ing deliv­er­able and people-focussed plans by let­ting stake­hold­ers know when and how they can get involved in the pre­par­a­tion of the next Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan (LDP) and keep­ing them informed of progress.

The Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme for the Cairngorms Nation­al Park LDP:

  • Out­lines how plan­ning in the Nation­al Park works.
  • High­lights changes to the Devel­op­ment Plan sys­tem that will determ­ine how the next LDP will be pre­pared and used.
  • Provides details on the pro­cesses and times­cales for the pre­par­a­tion of the next LDP.
  • Includes a Par­ti­cip­a­tion State­ment that sets out how and when engage­ment and pub­lic con­sulta­tion will take place in the pre­par­a­tion of the next LDP.
  • Con­tains an invit­a­tion for com­munit­ies to pre­pare Loc­al Place Plans.

The last Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme was pub­lished in Novem­ber 2024 and con­tained a timetable and a Par­ti­cip­a­tion State­ment for the next LDP. This Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme updates the timetable for the LDP. The actions with­in the Par­ti­cip­a­tion State­ment remain the same.

Click here to read the last Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme, pub­lished in Novem­ber 2024

Cov­er photo © Rupert Shanks, 2024.

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Plan­ning in the Nation­al Park

In the Cairngorms Nation­al Park, argu­ably more than in any oth­er part of Scot­land, we adopt an almost entirely part­ner­ship approach to plan­ning. The Park Author­ity and the five loc­al author­it­ies that cov­er its area – Aber­deen­shire Coun­cil, Angus Coun­cil, Moray Coun­cil, Perth and Kinross Coun­cil and The High­land Coun­cil – all play a key role in mak­ing the plan­ning sys­tem work effectively.

(Image: Map of Cairngorms Nation­al Park with vari­ous set­tle­ments, pri­or­ity areas, and infra­struc­ture marked)

Legend from map:

  • Stra­tegic settlement
  • Inter­me­di­ate settlement
  • Rur­al settlement
  • Aviemore and Cairngorm pri­or­ity area
  • Digit­al con­nectiv­ity pri­or­ity area
  • Des­ig­nated Area (not vis­ible, implied by context)
  • A9 trunk road
  • High­land Main Line railway
  • Exist­ing woodland
  • Lochs

Fig­ure 1 Stra­tegic dia­gram from the Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan 2022. Con­tains OS data © Crown copy­right and data­base right 2025.

The Park Author­ity sets the plan­ning policy frame­work for the Nation­al Park. This is achieved through the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan (NPPP) and the LDP. All plan­ning applic­a­tions in the Nation­al Park are determ­ined in line with this policy framework.

How­ever, plan­ning applic­a­tions are sub­mit­ted in the first instance to the rel­ev­ant loc­al author­ity. The Park Author­ity then ​‘calls in’ and determ­ines the most

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sig­ni­fic­ant plan­ning applic­a­tions for the Nation­al Park (gen­er­ally around 10% of all applic­a­tions), leav­ing the remainder to be determ­ined by the loc­al authorities¹.

The cur­rent Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan

The cur­rent LDP was adop­ted on 26 March 2021. The plan focuses on the five-year peri­od until 2025, how­ever, it also includes devel­op­ment pro­pos­als for the 10-year peri­od until 2030, as well as provid­ing a gen­er­al indic­a­tion of the likely scale and loc­a­tion of devel­op­ment as far as 20 years into the future.

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The plan shares the long-term vis­ion for the Cairngorms Nation­al Park that is set out in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan:

‘An out­stand­ing Nation­al Park, enjoyed and val­ued by every­one, where nature and people thrive together.’

The plan is sup­por­ted by a suite of top­ic based sup­ple­ment­ary and non-stat­utory guid­ance which provides fur­ther inform­a­tion about how the policies with­in the plan should be inter­preted and implemented:

  • Hous­ing sup­ple­ment­ary guidance.
  • Developer Oblig­a­tions sup­ple­ment­ary guidance.
  • Sup­port­ing Eco­nom­ic Growth non-stat­utory guidance.
  • Nat­ur­al Her­it­age non-stat­utory guidance.
  • Land­scape non-stat­utory guidance.
  • Renew­able Energy non-stat­utory guidance.
  • Open Space, Sport and Recre­ation non-stat­utory guidance.
  • Cul­tur­al Her­it­age non-stat­utory guidance.
  • Resources non-stat­utory guidance.
  • Design and Place­mak­ing non-stat­utory guidance.

Click here to access the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan and its sup­port­ing documents

¹ You can find more inform­a­tion about how the plan­ning pro­cess works in the Nation­al Park in our Plan­ning Ser­vice Charter and our Plan­ning Ser­vice Pro­tocol at www​.cairngorms​.co​.uk/​l​i​v​i​n​g​-​a​n​d​-​w​o​r​k​i​n​g​/​p​l​a​n​n​i​n​g​/​p​l​a​n​n​i​n​g​-​g​u​i​dance

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Action and Deliv­ery Programmes

Under the Town and Coun­try Plan­ning (Devel­op­ment Plan­ning) (Scot­land) Reg­u­la­tions 2008 plan­ning author­it­ies were required to pre­pare an Action Pro­gramme. The pur­pose of the pro­gramme was to provide an update of the pro­gress or pos­i­tion of the LDP and aims to sup­port its delivery.

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The Plan­ning (Scot­land) Act 2019 and the Town and Coun­try Plan­ning (Devel­op­ment Plan­ning) (Scot­land) Reg­u­la­tions 2008 brought in a new require­ment for loc­al author­it­ies to pub­lish a Deliv­ery Pro­gramme, repla­cing the Action Pro­gramme. The Deliv­ery Pro­gramme sets out how an author­ity pro­poses to imple­ment its LDP. It is part of the pro­ject man­age­ment toolkit, help­ing to focus devel­op­ment plan­ning resources on deliv­ery as well as plan-mak­ing. As a min­im­um, the Deliv­ery Pro­gramme must set out:

  • A list of actions required to deliv­er policies and pro­pos­als con­tained in the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan.
  • An explan­a­tion as to how those actions are to be undertaken.
  • The times­cale for the con­clu­sion of each action.
  • The expec­ted sequen­cing of, and times­cales for, deliv­ery of hous­ing on sites alloc­ated by the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan.

A Deliv­ery Pro­gramme for the cur­rent Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan was pub­lished in March 2025.

Click here to read the Deliv­ery Pro­gramme, pub­lished in March 2025

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The new plan­ning system

The devel­op­ment plan

The Plan­ning (Scot­land) Act 2019 has brought numer­ous reforms to Scotland’s devel­op­ment plan sys­tem, which are in the pro­cess of being imple­men­ted. A sig­ni­fic­ant mile­stone in this was the adop­tion of Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 4 by Scot­tish Min­is­ters on 13 Feb­ru­ary 2023, fol­low­ing approv­al by the Scot­tish Par­lia­ment in Janu­ary 2023. Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 4 replaced Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 3 and Scot­tish Plan­ning Policy, incor­por­at­ing an updated Scot­tish Plan­ning Policy, con­tain­ing detailed nation­al policy on a num­ber of topics.

Unlike Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 3 and Scot­tish Plan­ning Policy, Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 4 is part of the stat­utory devel­op­ment plan (Fig­ure 2). This means that for any place in Scot­land, the stat­utory devel­op­ment plan con­sists of Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 4, which cov­ers the whole coun­try, and the LDP for the plan­ning author­ity area where the place is. The stat­utory devel­op­ment plan forms the main basis for mak­ing decisions on plan­ning applic­a­tions, as plan­ning applic­a­tions must be determ­ined in accord­ance with the stat­utory devel­op­ment plan unless mater­i­al con­sid­er­a­tions indic­ate otherwise.

(Image: Dia­gram illus­trat­ing the Scot­tish Stat­utory Devel­op­ment Plan com­pon­ents and relationships)

Dia­gram components:

  • Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 4 (cent­ral circle, feeds into Devel­op­ment Plan)
  • Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan / Region­al Spa­tial Strategy (top right circle, feeds into Devel­op­ment Plan)
  • Loc­al Place Plan (bot­tom left circle, feeds into Devel­op­ment Plan)
  • Devel­op­ment Plan (middle, derived from NPF4, NPPP/RSS, and LPP)
  • Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan (bot­tom right circle, derived from Devel­op­ment Plan)

Fig­ure 2 The Scot­tish Stat­utory Devel­op­ment Plan.

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Stra­tegic dir­ec­tion with­in the Nation­al Park is also provided by the Cairngorms NPPP. The Part­ner­ship Plan is the over­arch­ing man­age­ment plan for the Cairngorms Nation­al Park which is approved by Scot­tish Min­is­ters. It sets out the vis­ion and over-arch­ing strategy for man­aging the Nation­al Park, as well as identi­fy­ing pri­or­it­ies for action and an over­all stra­tegic policy frame­work. Fur­ther­more, the Part­ner­ship Plan acts as the Region­al Spa­tial Strategy for the Nation­al Park, which is inten­ded to address stra­tegic devel­op­ment and issues. The cur­rent Part­ner­ship Plan was adop­ted in 2022, and a new Part­ner­ship Plan is expec­ted to be pro­duced by early 2027.

Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment guid­ance states that LDP’s for Nation­al Parks should be con­sist­ent with the Part­ner­ship Plan and Region­al Spa­tial Strategy. The Part­ner­ship Plan there­fore provides the stra­tegic con­text for the LDP, and the LDP will help to deliv­er a num­ber of the Part­ner­ship Plan’s policies and priorities.

At a loc­al level the devel­op­ment plan may be influ­enced by Loc­al Place Plans. These are com­munity-led plans that focus on places with­in loc­al author­it­ies’ areas, which may include par­tic­u­lar neighbourhoods.

Plan­ning author­it­ies have around five years from The Town and Coun­try Plan­ning (Devel­op­ment Plan­ning) (Scot­land) Reg­u­la­tions 2023 com­ing into force to replace their cur­rent Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan with a new style LDP. This means the Park Author­ity is expec­ted to pre­pare and adopt a new LDP by around May 2028.

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The next Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan

Along­side Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 4, the LDP will be the main doc­u­ment which will influ­ence future built devel­op­ment in the Nation­al Park. It will address a wide range of policy issues, includ­ing hous­ing, retail, eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment, trans­port, recre­ation, and built and nat­ur­al her­it­age. The LDP will cov­er a 10-year peri­od from around 2028 to 2038, as well as provide a gen­er­al indic­a­tion of the likely scale and loc­a­tion of devel­op­ment as far as 20 years bey­ond that.

The Plan­ning (Scot­land) Act 2019 has intro­duced a num­ber of changes to the key steps of pre­par­ing a LDP. Pre­par­a­tion of a new-style LDP will include:

  • (Icon: mag­ni­fy­ing glass/​research) Evid­ence-gath­er­ing and early com­munity and stake­hold­er engage­ment, lead­ing to an Evid­ence Report.
  • (Icon: tick/​checklist) Sub­mis­sion of the Evid­ence Report to Scot­tish Min­is­ters for an inde­pend­ent Gate Check.
  • (Icon: map/​plan) Plan pre­par­a­tion, lead­ing to pub­lic­a­tion of the Pro­posed Plan for consultation.
  • (Icon: two arrows point­ing oppos­ite dir­ec­tions) Sub­mis­sion of the Pro­posed Plan to Scot­tish Min­is­ters for an inde­pend­ent Exam­in­a­tion of out­stand­ing issues.
  • (Icon: document/​pages) Adop­tion and Con­sti­tu­tion of the LDP – Con­sti­tu­tion being the term refer­ring to the Plan becom­ing part of the adop­ted Devel­op­ment Plan.

The new style LDP is to be place-based with a great­er emphas­is on maps, site briefs and mas­ter­plans, with min­im­al policy word­ing. The policies and pro­pos­als with­in the LDP are to be focused on places and loc­a­tions, while Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 4 will provide over­arch­ing them­at­ic policies for decision making.

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Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan timetable

The Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme sets out the timetable for the pro­posed LDP. This includes the pro­posed tim­ings for the vari­ous stages of the LDP pre­par­a­tion by year and quarter.

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This Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme con­tains an update to the timetable in the pre­vi­ous Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme, pub­lished in Novem­ber 2024.

The main reas­on for these changes is a great­er volume of work, and there­fore more time taken, to pro­duce the Evid­ence Report than was pre­vi­ously anti­cip­ated. This addi­tion­al work has been under­taken in response to ini­tial feed­back from key stake­hold­ers and based on the recent exper­i­ences of oth­er loc­al plan­ning author­it­ies at the Evid­ence Report gate check stage. The addi­tion­al time taken to pro­duce the Evid­ence Report has knock-on implic­a­tions for the tim­ing of sub­sequent stages of plan production.

The times­cales for pub­lish­ing the LDP have also been updated to take account of the timetable for pre­par­a­tion of the next NPPP.

The updated timeline is set out on page 11. The changes affect the tim­ing, but not the actions, with­in the Par­ti­cip­a­tion State­ment. A detailed timetable, includ­ing inform­a­tion on where the changes to the timetable have occurred, is set out in in Appendix 1.

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Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan timeline

  • Pub­lish ini­tial Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme* and invit­a­tion to pre­pare Loc­al Place Plans
    • Q1 2023 / 2024
  • Pre­pare Evid­ence Report and early engagement
    • Q1 2023 / 2024 – Q3 2025 / 2026
  • Evid­ence Report Gate Check
    • Q4 2025 / 2026
    • Q1 2026 / 2027
  • Col­la­tion and sub­mis­sion of Evid­ence Report for Gate Check
    • Q4 2025 / 2026
  • Issue Call for Sites and Ideas
    • Q4 2025 / 2026
    • Q1 2026 / 2027
  • Pre­pare Pro­posed Plan and engagement
    • Q1 2026 / 2027 – Q4 2026 / 2027
  • Pro­posed Plan consultation
    • Q1 2027 / 2028
  • Pre­pare exam­in­a­tion papers
    • Q2 2027 / 2028
  • Exam­in­a­tion
    • Q3 2027 / 2028 – Q4 2027 / 2028
  • Modi­fy Pro­posed Plan
    • Q4 2027 / 2028
  • Adopt Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan
    • Q4 2027 / 2028
  • Pub­lish and adopt Deliv­ery Programme
    • Q1 2028 / 2029

* Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme to be updated annu­ally fol­low­ing ini­tial publication

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Par­ti­cip­a­tion Statement

Deliv­er­ing a suc­cess­ful LDP relies on suc­cess­ful engage­ment and con­sulta­tion. The Park Author­ity will con­tin­ue to adhere to the Nation­al Stand­ards for Com­munity Engage­ment. The stand­ards are good-prac­tice prin­ciples that aim to improve and sup­port effect­ive com­munity engage­ment, which in turn improves the outcomes.

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The Par­ti­cip­a­tion State­ment out­lines how the Park Author­ity are com­mit­ted to involving the pub­lic in the pre­par­a­tion of next LDP.

Engage­ment objectives

Across spe­cif­ic inform­al and form­al con­sulta­tion phases, we will attempt to:

  • Identi­fy and feed­back on the key issues we are facing, the big chal­lenges we need to address and areas of con­sensus and conflict.
  • Estab­lish what real­ist­ic and plan­ning related actions would make the biggest dif­fer­ence to tack­ling these.
  • Reach a more diverse cross-sec­tion of stake­hold­ers, explor­ing a vari­ety of con­sulta­tion meth­ods that help reach audi­ences that are not typ­ic­ally engaged.
  • Find the right bal­ance between con­serving and enhan­cing the nat­ur­al and cul­tur­al her­it­age of the Nation­al Park, deliv­er­ing afford­able hous­ing, sup­port­ing a sus­tain­able, thriv­ing eco­nomy and provid­ing out­stand­ing vis­it­or experiences.
  • Define the pro­posed plan­ning policy for the Nation­al Park over the time­frame of the next LDP.

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Audi­ences

Sev­en audi­ences have been iden­ti­fied as being crit­ic­al to the suc­cess of the LDP con­sulta­tion pro­cess. These audi­ences encom­pass those spe­cific­ally set out in Scot­tish Government’s LDP reg­u­la­tions, includ­ing chil­dren and young people, dis­abled people and com­munity councils.

  • Res­id­ents
  • Com­munity groups
  • Young people
  • Loc­al businesses
  • Landown­ers and managers
  • Vis­it­ors to the Nation­al Park
  • Under-rep­res­en­ted groups

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Sum­mary of methods

The Park Author­ity will:

  • Ensure people and com­munit­ies are aware of the LDP pro­cess and the oppor­tun­it­ies to com­ment at key stages in its pro­duc­tion. The Park Author­ity will keep every­one up-to-date and informed via a range of plat­forms and organ­isa­tions, includ­ing the Park Authority’s web­site, con­sulta­tion and social media plat­forms, and through key stake­hold­ers and stat­utory consultees.
  • Widely encour­age involve­ment using a range of meth­ods. This will include engage­ment events and pub­li­city cam­paigns via a range of plat­forms and organ­isa­tions, includ­ing the Park Authority’s web­site, con­sulta­tion plat­forms and social media plat­forms, the media, news­pa­per adverts and art­icles, and through key stake­hold­ers, stat­utory consultees.
  • Pro­duce doc­u­ments that are access­ible, trans­par­ent and writ­ten in jar­gon-free lan­guage that avoids or oth­er­wise explains neces­sary tech­nic­al terms.
  • Pub­lish an updated Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme every year, set­ting out how and when people can get involved in the pre­par­a­tion process.
  • Con­sider the use of medi­ation as a meth­od of address­ing poten­tially con­ten­tious issues.

A detailed timeline out­lining the LDP’s key stages and the types of engage­ment to take place at each stage is provided in Appendix 1.

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Invit­a­tion to pre­pare Loc­al Place Plans

Loc­al Place Plans have been intro­duced as part of the new plan­ning sys­tem to allow com­munit­ies to pre­pare their own plans that can be taken into con­sid­er­a­tion dur­ing the pre­par­a­tion of the next LDP. They provide a new oppor­tun­ity for com­munit­ies to feed into the plan­ning sys­tem by set­ting out their ideas, aspir­a­tions as well as pro­pos­als about how land is developed and used in their loc­al area. Loc­al Place Plans can build on the exist­ing Com­munity Action Plans that most com­munit­ies across the Nation­al Park have prepared.

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The Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity wants the next LDP to be shaped by the aims and ambi­tions of com­munit­ies across the Nation­al Park. We are invit­ing com­munity coun­cils and oth­er com­munity bod­ies to cre­ate their own com­munity-led Loc­al Place Plans that we would take into account in pre­par­ing the next LDP.

It is up to each com­munity body to decide if they want to pre­pare a Loc­al Place Plan, how­ever, it is import­ant that we make sure there is enough time for it to be sub­mit­ted and checked so it can feed into and inform the next LDP at the earli­est pos­sible stage. Based on cur­rent times­cales for pre­par­ing the next LDP. Loc­al Place Plans would already need to have been sub­mit­ted to the Park Author­ity in order to be taken account of in the next LDP, but a Loc­al Place Plan that is com­pleted in the future may still be taken account of in future plan­ning decisions or a future LDP.

The Park Author­ity will also take account of Com­munity Action Plans in pre­par­ing the next LDP.

Click here to find out more about pre­par­ing Loc­al Place Plans

If you have any ques­tions about Loc­al Place Plans, con­tact us at:

planning@​cairngorms.​co.​uk

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Con­tact Details

If you would like to be kept informed of pro­gress on the pre­par­a­tion of the next LDP, please go to:

cairngormsldp​.com​mon​place​.is

If you have any ques­tions that you would like answered, please contact:

Plan­ning Team Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity 14 The Square Grant­own-on-Spey PH26 3HG

Tel: 01479 873535 Email: planning@​cairngorms.​co.​uk Web­site: cairngorms​.co​.uk

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Appendix 1: Detailed timetable

Appendix 1 provides a detailed timetable for the next Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan (LDP), out­lining the key stages of pre­par­a­tion and when engage­ment is planned to take place. It con­tains inform­a­tion on where changes to the timetable have occurred between this Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme and the pre­vi­ous Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme. It may also be revised in future Devel­op­ment Plan Schemes.

Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan stage / engage­ment activ­ityPre­vi­ous tim­ingUpdated tim­ing
Pre­pare Evid­ence ReportQ1 2023⁄24 – Q1 2025⁄26Q1 2023⁄24 – Q3 2025⁄26
Pub­lish Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme (and Par­ti­cip­a­tion State­ment) online and share via web­site and social media.Q1 2023⁄24Q1 2023⁄24
Issue invit­a­tion to do Loc­al Place Plans as part of Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme and pro­mote via web­site, social media and Cairn newsletter.Q1 2023⁄24Q1 2023⁄24
Early online engage­ment via online con­sulta­tion plat­form, sup­por­ted by web­site, social media and Cairn news­let­ter promotionQ2 2023⁄24 – Q1 2025⁄26Q2 2023⁄24 – Q1 2025⁄26
Pre­pare and pub­lish Equal­ity Impact and Fairer Scot­land AssessmentsQ2 2023⁄24 – Q3 2023⁄24Q2 2023⁄24 – Q3 2023⁄24
Dir­ect engage­ment with Com­munity Coun­cils and oth­er stat­utory com­munity groups.Q2 2023⁄24 – Q1 2025⁄26Q2 2023⁄24 – Q3 2025⁄26
Engage­ment through Com­munity Action Plan­ning MeetingsQ1 2023⁄24 – Q1 2025⁄26Q2 2023⁄24 – Q3 2025⁄26
Social media advert­ising cam­paign tar­get­ing spe­cif­ic demo­graph­ics, for example young people and the work­ing age pop­u­la­tion, link­ing to online con­sulta­tion platform.Q2 2023⁄24 – Q1 2025⁄26Q2 2023⁄24 – Q3 2025⁄26
Stake­hold­er events tar­geted at under-rep­res­en­ted groupsQ2 2023⁄24 – Q1 2025⁄26Q2 2023⁄24 – Q3 2025⁄26

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Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan stage / engage­ment activ­ityPre­vi­ous tim­ingUpdated tim­ing
Work col­lab­or­at­ively with Loc­al Author­it­ies on their engage­ment work on Open Space and Play Suf­fi­ciency Assessments.Q1 2023⁄24 – Q1 2025⁄26Q2 2023⁄24 – Q3 2025⁄26
Engage­ment with chil­dren and young people through Cairngorms Youth Action Team, stu­dent coun­cils in Nation­al Park high schools and youth clubs, sports clubs, and oth­er youth groups.Q1 2023⁄24 – Q1 2025⁄26Q2 2023⁄24 – Q3 2025⁄26
Inform­al ses­sions with Park Author­ity Board members.Q2 2023⁄24 – Q1 2025⁄26Q2 2023⁄24 – Q3 2025⁄26
Engage Key Agen­cies on Stra­tegic Envir­on­ment­al Assess­ment Scop­ing ReportQ1 2025⁄26Q3 2025⁄26
Engage with Key Agen­cies on final the con­tent of Evid­ence Report.Q1 2025⁄26Q3 2025⁄26
Col­la­tion and sub­mis­sion of Evid­ence Report for Gate CheckQ4 2025⁄26Q4 2025⁄26
Webpage updates sup­por­ted by social media and Cairn news­let­ter to provide inform­a­tion about the gate check and ongo­ing work.Q1 2025⁄26Q4 2025⁄26

Times­cales from this point onwards are indic­at­ive as the admin­is­tra­tion of the gate check and exam­in­a­tion sit with Scot­tish Government’s Plan­ning and Envir­on­ment­al Appeals Divi­sion and are there­fore out­with the Park Authority’s control.

Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan stage / engage­ment activ­ityPre­vi­ous tim­ingUpdated tim­ing
Evid­ence Report Gate CheckQ2 2025⁄26Q4 2025⁄26 – Q1 2026⁄27
Webpage updates sup­por­ted by social media and Cairn news­let­ter to provide inform­a­tion about the gate check and ongo­ing work.Q2 2025⁄26Q1 2026⁄27
Pub­lish infograph­ic of key find­ings of the Evid­ence Report and con­clu­sions and share via web­site social media and CairnQ2 2025⁄26Q1 2026⁄27

Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme Novem­ber 2025 17

Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan stage / engage­ment activ­ityPre­vi­ous tim­ingUpdated tim­ing
news­let­ter and dis­trib­ute to those engaged dur­ing Evid­ence Report stage.
Pre­pare Pro­posed PlanQ3 2025⁄26Q1 2026⁄27 – Q4 2026⁄27
Issue Call for Sites and Ideas and advert­ise via web­site, social media and Cairn newsletter.Q1 2025⁄26 – Q2 2025⁄26Q4 2025⁄26 – Q1 2026⁄27
Hold form­al con­sulta­tion of at least 12 weeks via the Com­mon­place plat­form, sup­por­ted by web­site, social media and Cairn news­let­ter promotion.Q3 – 2026⁄27Q1 – 2027⁄28
Form­al con­sulta­tion on Stra­tegic Envir­on­ment Assess­ment Envir­on­ment­al Report and Hab­it­ats Reg­u­la­tions Apprais­al with Key AgenciesQ3 – 2026⁄27Q1 – 2027⁄28
Social media advert­ising cam­paign tar­get­ing spe­cif­ic demo­graph­ics, for example young people and the work­ing age pop­u­la­tion, link­ing to Commonplace.Q3 2025⁄26 – Q2 2026⁄27Q1 – 2027⁄28
Carry out dir­ect engage­ment with chil­dren and young people, through Cairngorms Youth Action Team, primary and school pupils and youth clubs and organisations.Q3 2025⁄26 – Q2 2026⁄27Q1 – 2027⁄28
Issue Neigh­bour Notifications.Q3 2026⁄27Q1 – 2027⁄28
Hold drop in exhib­i­tions to inform gen­er­al pub­lic and stake­hold­ers of con­sulta­tion. Sup­por­ted by social media cam­paign to pro­mote events.Q3 2026⁄27Q1 – 2027⁄28
Poster cir­cu­la­tion in key com­munity hot­spots and coun­tryside loc­a­tions, e.g. com­munity notice­boards, super­mar­kets, LICs, VICs, inter­pret­a­tion boards to pro­mote drop in exhib­i­tions and consultation.Q3 2026⁄27Q1 – 2027⁄28
Post-con­sulta­tion webpage updates sup­por­ted by social media and Cairn news­let­ter to provide inform­a­tion about ongo­ing work and the next stage in the process.Q3 2026⁄27 – Q4 2026⁄27Q1 – 2027⁄28

Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme Novem­ber 2025 18

Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan stage / engage­ment activ­ityPre­vi­ous tim­ingUpdated tim­ing
Pre­pare exam­in­a­tion papersQ3 2026⁄27 – Q4 2026⁄27Q2 2027⁄78
Update webpage to keep pub­lic-up-to-date on pro­gress, sup­por­ted by social media.Q3 2026⁄27 – Q4 2026⁄27Q2 2027⁄28
Exam­in­a­tionQ1 2027⁄28 – Q2 2027⁄28Q3 2027⁄28
Host exam­in­a­tion webpage to keep pub­lic up-to-date on pro­gress, sup­por­ted by social media and Cairn newsletter.Q1 2027⁄28Q3 2027⁄28
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