Formal board meeting - paper 3 annex 1 - Partnership Plan annual update - 26 September 2025

This document contains a summary of the Cairngorms National Park Authority's (Park Authority) Nature, People and Place objectives, detailing progress towards targets up to summer 2025. The objectives cover a range of topics, including reaching net zero emissions, expanding woodland, restoring peatland, managing deer populations, improving moorland, ensuring sustainable gamebird management and farming practices, improving freshwater systems, establishing ecological networks, restoring ecosystems and recovering species. The people objectives focus on improving the wellbeing economy, increasing real living wage employers, providing skills and training, increasing community assets, strengthening citizen participation, supporting community-led planning, promoting Gaelic language and culture, improving mental and physical health and ensuring a park for all. The place objectives cover improving access to housing, delivering new housing, ensuring housing and community benefit, thriving villages and town centers, encouraging sustainable tourism and improving transport around the park and providing accessible paths and cycle networks and a high-quality visitor experience.