Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Ugh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

Form­al Board Paper 1 Annex 1.12 13 March 2026

Paper 1

Annex 1.12

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Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Ugh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

Live­able places

Sched­ule 12: Liv­ing loc­ally and 20 minute neighbourhoods

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan: Evid­ence Report March 2026

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Sched­ule 12: Loc­al liv­ing and 20 minute neighbourhoods

March 2026

Sched­ule contents

Require­ments addressed in this sched­ule 2 Links to evid­ence 3 Sum­mary of evid­ence 6 Policy con­text 6 Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 4 6 Legis­la­tion and nation­al doc­u­ments 13 Nation­al Park Author­ity doc­u­ments 16 Loc­al author­ity doc­u­ments 19 Com­munity action plans 22 Oth­er doc­u­ments 28 Baseline 28 This sec­tion provides baseline inform­a­tion on the fol­low­ing matters:

• The Cairngorms Nation­al Park loc­al liv­ing map 40
• Set­tle­ment sum­mar­ies 55 Evid­ence gaps 108 Sum­mary of stake­hold­er engage­ment 109 Sum­mary of implic­a­tions for Pro­posed Plan 110 State­ments of agree­ment 112 State­ments of dis­pute 117

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan: Evid­ence Report 2026 Live­able places | Sched­ule 12: Liv­ing loc­ally and 20 minute neighbourhoods

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Require­ments addressed in this schedule

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

Sec­tion	Require­ment
Sec­tion 15(5)(a)	The prin­cip­al phys­ic­al, cul­tur­al, eco­nom­ic, social, built her­it­age and envir­on­ment­al char­ac­ter­ist­ics of the district,
Sec­tion 15(5)©	The size, com­pos­i­tion, health and dis­tri­bu­tion of the pop­u­la­tion of the district,
Sec­tion 15(5)(d)	The infra­struc­ture of the dis­trict (includ­ing com­mu­nic­a­tions, trans­port and drain­age sys­tems, sys­tems for the sup­ply of water and energy, and health care and edu­ca­tion facilities),
Sec­tion 15(5)(f)	Any change which the plan­ning author­ity think may occur in rela­tion to any of the mat­ters men­tioned in para­graphs (a) to (eb).
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