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Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Ùgh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

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Top­ic: Eco­nom­ic development

Engage­ment ver­sion – June 2025

Require­ments addressed in this sec­tion Table 1 Inform­a­tion required by the Town and Coun­try Plan­ning (Scot­land) Act 1997, as amended, regard­ing the issue addressed in this section.

Sec­tionRequire­ment
Sec­tion 15(5)(a)the prin­cip­al phys­ic­al, cul­tur­al, [eco­nom­ic], social, built her­it­age and envir­on­ment­al char­ac­ter­ist­ics of the district,
Sec­tion 15(5)(b)the prin­cip­al pur­poses for which the land is used,
Sec­tion 15(5) ©the size, com­pos­i­tion health and dis­tri­bu­tion of the pop­u­la­tion of the district,
Sec­tion 15(5) (ce)the edu­ca­tion needs of the pop­u­la­tion of the dis­trict and the likely effects of devel­op­ment and use of land on those edu­ca­tion needs,
Sec­tion 15(5) (cf)the extent to which there are rur­al areas with­in the dis­trict in rela­tion to which there has been a sub­stan­tial decline in population.

Links to evidence

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[https://cairngorms.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Kincraig-and-locality-
Community-Action-Plan-2024.pdf](https://cairngorms.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Kincraig-and-locality-Community-Action-Plan-2024.pdf)

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Sum­mary of evidence

Policy con­text

Nation­al Per­form­ance Framework

The Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment has 11 Nation­al Out­comes that the pub­lic sec­tor must col­lect­ively deliv­er. The Nation­al Out­come for the eco­nomy sets out the fol­low­ing vision:

  • To have a strong, dynam­ic and pro­duct­ive eco­nomy which cre­ates wealth and employ­ment across Scotland.

  • The eco­nomy is com­pet­it­ive, and Scot­land has good inter­na­tion­al trade, invest­ment and export net­works. Scot­land is con­sidered an attract­ive place to do business.

  • The eco­nomy is inclus­ive and focused on improv­ing the lives of all Scotland’s people. Scot­land needs to ensure the bene­fits of eco­nom­ic growth, wealth and oppor­tun­it­ies are fairly shared. Access to labour mar­kets and jobs is evenly shared.

  • The sus­tain­able eco­nom­ic growth is not achieved at the expense of Scotland’s social interests or those of the envir­on­ment. As such, Scotland’s eco­nomy is eco­lo­gic­ally account­able as well as socially responsible.

  • Scot­land regards the green eco­nomy and its rich eco­lo­gic­al cap­it­al as a valu­able devel­op­ment oppor­tun­ity and act­ively pro­gress advance­ments in these areas.’

When con­sid­er­ing eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park, the Nation­al Out­come for fair work and busi­ness also has rel­ev­ance. Scot­tish Government’s vis­ion for this out­come is to suc­cess­fully attract and retain new tal­ent and fully sup­port busi­ness and social enter­prise tak­ing ser­i­ously the well­being and skills of Its work­force and provid­ing good qual­ity, fair work, train­ing and employ­ment sup­port for all, with employ­ers act­ively ful­filling their cor­por­ate responsibilities.’

This out­come relates the fol­low­ing United Nation’s Sus­tain­able Goals:

  • Qual­ity education

  • Gender equal­ity

  • Afford­able and clean energy

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  • Decent work and eco­nom­ic growth

  • Industry, innov­a­tion and infrastructure

  • Reduced inequal­it­ies

  • Respons­ible con­sump­tion and production.

The Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan should also aim to sup­port the Nation­al Out­come for Fair Work and Busi­ness and the out­come for com­munit­ies. Com­munity Wealth Build­ing can sup­port com­munity resi­li­ence and invest­ment in deprived communities.

Scotland’s Nation­al Strategy for Eco­nom­ic Trans­form­a­tion: Deliv­er­ing Eco­nom­ic Prosper­ity 2022

The Nation­al Strategy for Eco­nom­ic Trans­form­a­tion, pub­lished in March 2022, sets out the need for a new cul­ture of deliv­ery where part­ners come togeth­er to deliv­er the actions needed to trans­form the Scot­tish eco­nomy. The Strategy sets out six eco­nom­ic pro­grammes for the ten-year peri­od, delivered through a phased approach. The six pro­grammes are:

  1. Entre­pren­eur­i­al people and cul­ture pro­gramme – the aim of the pro­gramme is to estab­lish Scot­land as a world-class entre­pren­eur­i­al nation with a much stronger pipeline of scal­ing busi­nesses and foun­ded on a cul­ture that encour­ages, pro­motes and cel­eb­rates entre­pren­eur­i­al activ­ity in every sec­tor of the economy.

  2. New mar­ket oppor­tun­it­ies pro­gramme – seeks to cap­it­al­ise on Scotland’s strengths in areas such as renew­able energy and hydro­gen, fin­an­cial ser­vices and fintech, space, indus­tri­al biotech and high value man­u­fac­tur­ing to grasp new mar­ket opportunities.

  3. Pro­duct­ive busi­nesses and regions pro­gramme – seeks to deliv­er a step-change in Scotland’s pro­ductiv­ity per­form­ance, address­ing region­al inequal­it­ies in eco­nom­ic activ­ity as well as boost­ing tra­di­tion­al and digit­al infra­struc­ture. This includes address­ing region­al inequal­it­ies and mak­ing improve­ments to Scotland’s infra­struc­ture that will sup­port trans­ition to a green­er eco­nomy. It is crit­ic­al that these resources are shared in an effi­cient and equit­able way across all parts of Scot­land, includ­ing ensur­ing that tra­di­tion­al access chal­lenges in the rur­al com­munit­ies are addressed.

  4. Skilled work­force pro­gramme – there is a need to address inequal­ity in the work­force namely women, young people, lone par­ents, older and dis­abled work­ers, minor­ity eth­nic people and those with no or low qual­i­fic­a­tions, at present and those who have all been dis­pro­por­tion­ately impacted by Cov­id-19. The aging pop­u­la­tion and the require­ment for people to work longer will lead to a great­er need for in-work

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engage­ment with the skills sys­tem to reskill or upskill in line with chan­ging work demands.

  1. Fairer and more equal soci­ety pro­gramme — Employ­ab­il­ity ser­vices need to help those fur­thest from the labour mar­ket into employ­ment. Long-term unem­ployed (12 months plus) account for nearly a third of all unem­ployed in Scot­land. Women and young people are already more likely to be employed in jobs with low pay. The aim is to reori­ent Scotland’s eco­nomy towards well­being and fair work; to deliv­er high­er rates of employ­ment and wage growth, includ­ing for those who may face chal­lenges in access­ing the labour mar­ket; to sig­ni­fic­antly reduce struc­tur­al poverty, par­tic­u­larly child poverty; and improve health, cul­tur­al and social out­comes for dis­ad­vant­aged fam­il­ies and com­munit­ies, par­tic­u­larly those in rur­al areas.

  2. A cul­ture of deliv­ery pro­gramme — sets out the steps Scot­land needs to take, the struc­tures that need to put in place, and the land­scape it needs to build to ensure Scot­land can suc­cess­fully deliv­er the Nation­al Strategy for Eco­nom­ic Transformation.

Fur­ther detail on the planned deliv­ery of the above pro­grammes please refer to the Strategy doc­u­ment in the links to evid­ence sec­tion. The Pro­posed Plan will seek to reflect and sup­port the pro­grammes the Nation­al Strategy for Eco­nom­ic Transformation.

Build­ing Com­munity Wealth in Scotland

The Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment has adop­ted the inter­na­tion­ally recog­nised Com­munity Wealth Build­ing (CWB) approach to eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment as a key prac­tic­al means by which pro­gress can be made towards real­ising Scotland’s well­being eco­nomy vis­ion out­lined in the Nation­al Strategy for Eco­nom­ic Trans­form­a­tion (NSET). The com­mit­ment to Com­munity Wealth Build­ing legis­la­tion is re-iter­ated in Nation­al Strategy for Eco­nom­ic Transformation:

  • ‘Intro­duce Com­munity Wealth Build­ing legis­la­tion that builds on the suc­cesses and learn­ings of all of the Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment com­munity wealth build­ing loc­al and region­al pilot areas in urb­an and rur­al Scotland.’

Part 1 of this con­sulta­tion paper describes what Com­munity Wealth Build­ing is, provides an over­view of Com­munity Wealth Build­ing activ­ity in Scot­land and out­lines the back­ground to and ambi­tions for Com­munity Wealth Build­ing legis­la­tion. Part 2 provides an oppor­tun­ity to offer views on a legis­lat­ive pro­pos­al and share per­spect­ives on what is required to advance Com­munity Wealth Build­ing in Scot­land. Part 3 provides details on how to respond to this con­sulta­tion and next steps.

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Com­munity Wealth Build­ing is a prac­tic­al approach to eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment focused on five pil­lars of activ­ity. These pil­lars are the key areas of focus due to the eco­nom­ic levers they rep­res­ent. All of the pil­lars play a com­ple­ment­ary role in the reten­tion of wealth in loc­al places and regions for the bene­fit of com­munit­ies. Increased spend with loc­al busi­nesses and high­er levels of inclus­ive or com­munity forms of own­er­ship means that more money stays in the com­munit­ies that cre­ate the wealth through high­er incomes, fairer employ­ment oppor­tun­it­ies and a great­er say over the use of loc­al and region­al assets.
Spend­ing:Inclus­ive Ownership:Work­force:
Max­im­ising com­munity benefitsDevel­op­ing moreIncreas­ing fair work
through pro­cure­mentloc­al and socialand devel­op­ing local
and com­mis­sion­ing,enter­prises whichlabour mar­kets
devel­op­ing goodgen­er­ate
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