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Formal Board Paper 1 Annex 1.1 - Plan outcomes

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Ùgh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

Form­al Board Paper 1 Annex 1.1 13 March 2026

Paper 1

Annex 1.1

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Ùgh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

Over­arch­ing topics

Sched­ule 1: Plan outcomes

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Sched­ule 1: Plan outcomes

March 2026

Sched­ule contents

Top­icPage
Require­ments addressed in this schedule2
Links to evidence3
Sum­mary of evidence5
United Nations Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals6
Nation­al Per­form­ance Framework7
Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 48
Loc­al out­come improve­ment plans12
Nation­al Park aims13
Nat­ur­al Envir­on­ment (Scot­land) Bill13
Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan 2022 – 202715
Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan 2027 – 203220
Loc­al place plans20
Com­munity action plans21
Evid­ence gaps22
Sum­mary of stake­hold­er engagement22
Sum­mary of implic­a­tions for Pro­posed Plan22
State­ments of agreement23
State­ments of dispute26

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Require­ments addressed in this schedule

Table 1 Inform­a­tion required by the Town and Coun­try Plan­ning (Scot­land) Act 1997, as amended, (CNPA003) regard­ing the issue addressed in this schedule.

Sec­tionRequire­ment
Sec­tion 3ZA(1)The pur­pose of plan­ning is to man­age the devel­op­ment and use of land in the long-term pub­lic interest.
Sec­tion 3ZA(2)Without lim­it­ing the gen­er­al­ity of sub­sec­tion (1), any­thing which con­trib­utes to sus­tain­able devel­op­ment, or achieves the nation­al out­comes (with­in the mean­ing of Part 1 of the Com­munity Empower­ment (Scot­land) Act 2015), is to be con­sidered as being in the long-term pub­lic interest.
Sec­tion 4ZB(2)In exer­cising their func­tions of pre­par­ing, revis­ing or amend­ing a loc­al devel­op­ment plan, a plan­ning author­ity must have regard to their adop­ted region­al spa­tial strategy.
Sec­tion 16(2)(a)To take into account—
i. the Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work and
ii. any loc­al out­comes improve­ment plan (with­in the mean­ing of sec­tion 6 of the Com­munity Empower­ment (Scot­land) Act 2015) for the part of their dis­trict to which the loc­al devel­op­ment plan relates,
iii. any registered loc­al place plan (see sched­ule 19) that is for the part of their dis­trict to which the loc­al devel­op­ment plan relates,
Sec­tion 16(2)(b)Are to have regard to such inform­a­tion and con­sid­er­a­tions as may be prescribed,
Sec­tion 16(2)©May have regard to such oth­er inform­a­tion and con­sid­er­a­tions as appear to them to be relevant.
Sec­tion 16B(3)(e)Include such oth­er mat­ters as are prescribed.
Sec­tion 16B(4)©The evid­ence report is also to include a state­ment on the extent to which the views expressed under para­graphs (a) and (b) have been taken into account in the report.
Sec­tion 264AIn the exer­cise, with respect to any land in a Nation­al Park, of any power under the plan­ning Acts, spe­cial atten­tion shall be paid to the desirab­il­ity of exer­cising the power con­sist­ently with the adop­ted Nation­al Park Plan.

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Table 2 Inform­a­tion required by the Town and Coun­try Plan­ning (Devel­op­ment Plan­ning) (Scot­land) Reg­u­la­tions 2023 (CNPA684), regard­ing the issue addressed in this schedule.

Sec­tionRequire­ment
Reg­u­la­tion 9(2)(a)Any region­al spa­tial strategy pre­pared under sec­tion 4ZA of the Town and Coun­try Plan­ning (Scot­land) Act 1997 for the loc­al devel­op­ment plan area or an area adjoin­ing the loc­al devel­op­ment plan area.

Links to evidence

Inter­na­tion­al documents

  • CNPA002 — United Nations Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals

Legis­la­tion

  • CNPA003 — Town and Coun­try Plan­ning (Scot­land) Act 1997
  • CNPA004 — Nation­al Park (Scot­land) Act 2000
  • CNPA005 — Plan­ning (Scot­land) Act 2019
  • CNPA006 — Town and Coun­try Plan­ning (Grounds for Declin­ing to Fol­low Recom­mend­a­tions) (Scot­land) Reg­u­la­tions 2009
  • CNPA634 — Nat­ur­al Envir­on­ment (Scot­land) Bill as passed
  • CNPA684 — Town and Coun­try Plan­ning (Devel­op­ment Plan­ning) (Scot­land) Reg­u­la­tions 2023

Nation­al documents

  • CNPA007 — Nation­al Per­form­ance Framework
  • CNPA008 — Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 4
  • CNPA009 — Loc­al devel­op­ment plan­ning guidance

Nation­al Park Author­ity documents

  • CNPA010 — Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan 2022
  • CNPA012 — Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan 2022 – 2027 Form­al Board Paper 2 10 June 2022
  • CNPA013 — Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan con­sulta­tion report
  • CNPA635 — Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan 2027 – 2032 Timetable
  • CNPA1329 — Cairngorms Agri­cul­tur­al Advis­ory For­um Minutes Novem­ber 2025
  • CNPA1341 — Top­ic: Plan out­comes — engage­ment version

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Loc­al author­ity documents

  • CNPA636 — Aber­deen­shire Loc­al Out­comes Improve­ment Plan 2017 – 2027
  • CNPA637 — Angus Com­munity Plan 2022 – 2030
  • CNPA638 — High­land Out­come Improve­ment Plan 2024 – 2027
  • CNPA639 — Moray Loc­al Out­come Improve­ment Plan v2
  • CNPA640 — Perth and Kinross Com­munity Plan 2022 – 2032

Com­munity action plans

  • CNPA011 — Com­munity action plans
  • CNPA063 — Aviemore, Rothiemurchus and Glen­more Com­munity Action Plan 2024
  • CNPA064 — Blair Atholl and Stru­an Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030
  • CNPA065 – Grant­own-on-Spey Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030
  • CNPA066 — Kin­gussie Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030
  • CNPA119 — Bal­later and Crath­ie Com­munity Action Plan 2023
  • CNPA121 — Brae­mar Com­munity Action Plan 2017
  • CNPA122 — Car­rbridge Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030
  • CNPA123 — Crom­dale and Advie Com­munity Action Plan 2013
  • CNPA125 — Dal­whin­nie Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing for­ward to 2030
  • CNPA127 — Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030
  • CNPA129 — Lag­gan Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030
  • CNPA130 — Mount Blair Com­munity Action Plan 2013 – 2018
  • CNPA131 — Nethy Bridge Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030
  • CNPA132 — New­ton­more Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030
  • CNPA133 — Strath­don Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030
  • CNPA331 — Dul­nain Bridge Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030
  • CNPA374 — Boat of Garten Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030

Con­sulta­tion material

  • CNPA678 — Kil­liecrankie and Vicin­ity Com­munity Coun­cil Plan Out­comes sur­vey response
  • CNPA679 — Mar Estate Plan Out­comes sur­vey response
  • CNPA680 — Vic­tor Jordan Plan out­comes sur­vey response
  • CNPA1340 — Evid­ence report engage­ment responses

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Sum­mary of evidence

Loc­al devel­op­ment plans are required to focus on the out­comes that they deliv­er for people and places. This includes con­trib­ut­ing to sus­tain­able devel­op­ment, and the achieve­ment of the Nation­al Per­form­ance Frame­work Nation­al Out­comes (CNPA007). As part of a plan-led approach they are also cent­ral to sup­port­ing the United Nations Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals (CNPA002). They must also take account of Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 4 (CNPA008), the adop­ted Region­al Spa­tial Strategy, any loc­al out­come improve­ment plans, and any registered loc­al place plans for the area they cover.

Stra­tegic dir­ec­tion with­in the Nation­al Park is also provided by the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan 2022 (CNPA010), which is the adop­ted nation­al park plan as defined by the Nation­al Park (Scot­land) Act 2000 (CNPA004). The Part­ner­ship Plan sets out the vis­ion and over-arch­ing strategy for man­aging the Nation­al Park, as well as identi­fy­ing out­comes, 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 Nation­al Park (Scot­land) Act 2000 (CNPA004) states that a Nation­al Park author­ity must, in exer­cising func­tions so far as affect­ing a Nation­al Park, have regard to the adop­ted nation­al park plan. This is sup­por­ted in the Town and Coun­try Plan­ning (Scot­land) Act 1997 (CNPA003) which states that in the exer­cise, with respect to any land in a Nation­al Park, of any power under the plan­ning acts, spe­cial atten­tion shall be paid to the desirab­il­ity of exer­cising the power con­sist­ently with the adop­ted nation­al park plan. These func­tions and powers include the pre­par­a­tion, adop­tion, and imple­ment­a­tion of its loc­al devel­op­ment plan. More spe­cific­ally, Scot­tish Government’s loc­al devel­op­ment plan­ning guid­ance (para­graph 149) (CNPA009) states that loc­al devel­op­ment plans for Nation­al Parks should look to align with the adop­ted nation­al park plan¹. The Part­ner­ship Plan there­fore provides the stra­tegic con­text for the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan.

The vis­ion, out­comes and spa­tial strategy for the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan will there­fore be those of the Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan.

¹ Incon­sist­ency with any adop­ted nation­al park plan is also one of the cir­cum­stances where a plan­ning author­ity may decline to fol­low a recom­mend­a­tion with­in an exam­in­a­tion report on a pro­posed plan accord­ing to the Town and Coun­try Plan­ning (Grounds for Declin­ing to Fol­low Recom­mend­a­tions) (Scot­land) Reg­u­la­tions 2009 (CNPA006).

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(CNPA010), which rep­res­ent the loc­al expres­sion of inter­na­tion­al and nation­al out­comes and priorities.

This sched­ule provides inform­a­tion on the vari­ous tiers of inter­na­tion­al, nation­al, and loc­al policy that influ­ence the loc­al devel­op­ment plan, with a focus on the over­arch­ing stra­tegic and out­come-based goals and require­ments. These are con­sidered in more detail in the top­ic spe­cif­ic sched­ules of the Evid­ence Report.

United Nations Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals

The Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals (CNPA002), also known as the Glob­al Goals, were adop­ted by the United Nations in 2015 as a uni­ver­sal call to action to end poverty, pro­tect the plan­et, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosper­ity. These are to:

  • End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
  • End hun­ger, achieve food secur­ity and improved nutri­tion and pro­mote sus­tain­able agriculture.
  • Ensure healthy lives and pro­mote well-being for all at all ages.
  • Ensure inclus­ive and equit­able qual­ity edu­ca­tion and pro­mote lifelong learn­ing oppor­tun­it­ies for all.
  • Achieve gender equal­ity and empower all women and girls.
  • Ensure avail­ab­il­ity and sus­tain­able man­age­ment of water and san­it­a­tion for all.
  • Ensure access to afford­able, reli­able, sus­tain­able, and mod­ern energy for all.
  • Pro­mote sus­tained, inclus­ive, and sus­tain­able eco­nom­ic growth, full and pro­duct­ive employ­ment, and decent work for all.
  • Build resi­li­ent infra­struc­ture, pro­mote inclus­ive and sus­tain­able indus­tri­al­iz­a­tion and foster innovation.
  • Reduce inequal­ity with­in and among countries.
  • Make cit­ies and human set­tle­ments inclus­ive, safe, resi­li­ent, and sustainable.
  • Ensure sus­tain­able con­sump­tion and pro­duc­tion patterns.
  • Take urgent action to com­bat cli­mate change and its impacts.
  • Con­serve and sus­tain­ably use the oceans, seas, and mar­ine resources for sus­tain­able development.
  • Pro­tect, restore, and pro­mote sus­tain­able use of ter­restri­al eco­sys­tems, sus­tain­ably man­age forests, com­bat deser­ti­fic­a­tion, and halt and reverse land degrad­a­tion and halt biod­iversity loss.
  • Pro­mote peace­ful and inclus­ive soci­et­ies for sus­tain­able devel­op­ment, provide access to justice for all and build effect­ive, account­able, and inclus­ive insti­tu­tions at all levels.

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  • Strengthen the means of imple­ment­a­tion and revital­ize the Glob­al Part­ner­ship for Sus­tain­able Development.

In Scot­land, these out­comes are delivered through the Nation­al Per­form­ance Framework.

Nation­al Per­form­ance Framework

The Nation­al Per­form­ance Frame­work (CNPA007) sets out Scot­tish Government’s aims for the whole of Scot­land to:

  • Cre­ate a more suc­cess­ful country.
  • Give oppor­tun­it­ies to all people liv­ing in Scotland.
  • Increase the well­being of people liv­ing in Scotland.
  • Cre­ate sus­tain­able and inclus­ive growth.
  • Reduce inequal­it­ies and give equal import­ance to eco­nom­ic, envir­on­ment­al, and social progress.

To help achieve this, the frame­work sets out 15 Nation­al Out­comes that the pub­lic sec­tor must col­lect­ively deliv­er (Fig­ure 1). These out­comes are that people:

  • Grow up loved, safe and respec­ted so that they real­ise their full potential.
  • Live in com­munit­ies that are inclus­ive, empowered, resi­li­ent and safe.
  • Are cre­at­ive and their vibrant and diverse cul­tures are expressed and enjoyed widely.
  • Have a glob­ally com­pet­it­ive, entre­pren­eur­i­al, inclus­ive, and sus­tain­able economy.
  • Are well edu­cated, skilled and able to con­trib­ute to society.
  • Value, enjoy, pro­tect, and enhance their environment.
  • Have thriv­ing and innov­at­ive busi­nesses, with qual­ity jobs and fair work for everyone.
  • Are healthy and active.
  • Respect, pro­tect and ful­fil human rights and live free from discrimination.
  • Are open, con­nec­ted and make a pos­it­ive con­tri­bu­tion internationally.
  • Tackle poverty by shar­ing oppor­tun­it­ies, wealth, and power more equally.

These out­comes are dir­ectly linked to Scot­tish Government’s response to address­ing the United Nations Sus­tain­able Goals and are Scotland’s way to loc­al­ise those goals.

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Fig­ure 1 Nation­al Per­form­ance Framework’s Nation­al Out­comes (CNPA007).

Sum­mary of the dia­gram (Fig­ure 1), rep­res­ent­ing the Nation­al Per­form­ance Framework:

Our Pur­pose: To focus on cre­at­ing a more suc­cess­ful coun­try with oppor­tun­it­ies for all of Scot­land to flour­ish through increased well­being, and sus­tain­able and inclus­ive eco­nom­ic growth.

Our Val­ues: We are a soci­ety which treats all our people with kind­ness, dig­nity and com­pas­sion, respects the rule of law, and acts in an open and trans­par­ent way.

Nation­al Out­comes (key themes around the circle):

  • We have a glob­ally com­pet­it­ive, entre­pren­eur­i­al, inclus­ive and sus­tain­able economy.
  • We are open, con­nec­ted and make a pos­it­ive con­tri­bu­tion internationally.
  • We tackle poverty by shar­ing oppor­tun­it­ies, wealth and power more equally.
  • We live in com­munit­ies that are inclus­ive, empowered, resi­li­ent and safe.
  • We grow up loved, safe and respec­ted so that we real­ise our full potential.
  • We are well edu­cated, skilled and able to con­trib­ute to society.
  • We have thriv­ing and innov­at­ive busi­nesses, with qual­ity jobs and fair work for everyone.
  • We are healthy and active.
  • We value, enjoy, pro­tect and enhance our environment.
  • We are cre­at­ive and our vibrant and diverse cul­tures are expressed and enjoyed widely.
  • We respect, pro­tect and ful­fil human rights and live free from discrimination.

Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 4

Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 4 (CNPA008) is the nation­al spa­tial strategy for Scot­land. It sets out Scotland’s spa­tial prin­ciples, region­al pri­or­it­ies, nation­al devel­op­ments, and nation­al plan­ning policy. It will play a key role in deliv­er­ing on the United Nations Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals (CNPA002), as well as Scotland’s nation­al out­comes (CNPA007). 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 Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan for the plan­ning author­ity area where the place is.

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Fig­ure 2 The Scot­tish Stat­utory Devel­op­ment Plan as it applies in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park (CNPA008).

Dia­gram Descrip­tion: This dia­gram illus­trates the hier­archy and rela­tion­ship between dif­fer­ent plan­ning documents.

  • At the top: Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 4 and Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan / Region­al Spa­tial Strategy are shown as overarching.
  • In the middle: Both feed into the concept of a Devel­op­ment Plan.
  • At the bot­tom: The Devel­op­ment Plan is com­prised of Loc­al Place Plan (on the left) and Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan (on the right). Arrows indic­ate influ­ence and connection.

Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 4 sets out six over­arch­ing spa­tial prin­ciples on which to plan the future:

  • Just trans­ition. We will empower people to shape their places and ensure the trans­ition to net zero is fair and inclusive.
  • Con­serving and recyc­ling assets. We will make pro­duct­ive use of exist­ing build­ings, places, infra­struc­ture, and ser­vices, lock­ing in car­bon, min­im­ising waste, and build­ing a cir­cu­lar economy.
  • Loc­al liv­ing. We will sup­port loc­al live­ab­il­ity and improve com­munity health and well­being by ensur­ing people can eas­ily access ser­vices, green­space, learn­ing, work, and leis­ure locally.
  • Com­pact urb­an growth. We will lim­it urb­an expan­sion so we will optim­ise the use of land to provide ser­vices and resources, includ­ing car­bon stor­age, flood risk man­age­ment, blue and green infra­struc­ture, and biodiversity.
  • Rebal­anced devel­op­ment. We will tar­get devel­op­ment to cre­ate oppor­tun­it­ies for com­munit­ies and invest­ment in areas of past decline and man­age devel­op­ment sus­tain­ably in areas of high demand.
  • Rur­al revital­isa­tion. We will encour­age sus­tain­able devel­op­ment in rur­al areas, recog­nising the need to grow and sup­port urb­an and rur­al com­munit­ies together.

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These prin­ciples will play a key role in deliv­er­ing on the United Nations Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals (CNPA002) and Scotland’s nation­al out­comes (CNPA007).

Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment want Scotland’s future places to work for every­one. There­fore, rather than com­prom­ise or trade-offs between envir­on­ment­al, social, and eco­nom­ic object­ives, Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 4 is inten­ded to be an integ­rated strategy to bring togeth­er cross-cut­ting pri­or­it­ies and achieve sus­tain­able devel­op­ment. There­fore, by apply­ing the spa­tial prin­ciples Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 4 will sup­port the plan­ning and deliv­ery of:

  • Sus­tain­able places, where we reduce emis­sions, restore, and bet­ter con­nect biodiversity.
  • Live­able places, where we can all live bet­ter, health­i­er lives.
  • Pro­duct­ive places, where we have a green­er, fairer, and more inclus­ive well­being economy.

It is inten­ded that Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 4’s nation­al spa­tial strategy will be taken for­ward in dif­fer­ent ways across Scot­land, reflect­ing the diverse char­ac­ter, assets, and chal­lenges of its places. To guide this, Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 4 has iden­ti­fied region­al spa­tial pri­or­it­ies for five broad