Glenmore Visitor Management Plan

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Glen­more Vis­it­or Man­age­ment Plan Sum­mer 2020

Over­view

This Plan is a sub­set of the over­all Cairngorms wide plan for the eas­ing of lock­down. This plan will also tie in with spe­cif­ic plans being put in place by indi­vidu­al landown­ers. The times­cales of these spe­cif­ic plans may dif­fer, depend­ing on the capa­city each land man­ager has avail­able to safely reopen facil­it­ies and services.

Times­cales (based on SG Guid­ance) Phase I — 28 May until next review on 18 June

• You will also be per­mit­ted to travel short dis­tances for out­door leis­ure and exer­cise but advice to stay with­in a short dis­tance of your loc­al com­munity and travel by walk, wheel and cycle where possible.
• In this phase we are plan­ning to allow unres­tric­ted out­doors exer­cise adher­ing to dis­tan­cing meas­ures and non-con­tact out­door activ­it­ies in the loc­al area — such as golf, hik­ing, canoe­ing, out­door swim­ming, angling — con­sist­ent with the wider rules and guid­ance applic­able to any activ­ity in this phase.
• In this phase we are plan­ning the gradu­al open­ing of drive through food out­lets as well as the re-open­ing of garden centres and plant nurs­er­ies with phys­ic­al dis­tan­cing. Asso­ci­ated cafes (e.g. in garden centres) should not reopen at this stage except for take away.

Phase 2 — Poten­tially from 18 June but no decision until review point

• People will be able to drive loc­ally for leis­ure and exer­cise purposes.
• Pubs and res­taur­ants can open out­door spaces with phys­ic­al dis­tan­cing and increased hygiene routines

Phase 3 — Times­cale Unknown

• In this phase you can drive bey­ond your loc­al area for leis­ure and exer­cise purposes.
• Pubs and res­taur­ants can open indoor spaces with phys­ic­al dis­tan­cing and increased hygiene routines.

Key Times for Vis­it­or Management

• Fri­day — Sun is key vis­it­or times
• School sum­mer hol­i­days from 3 July

On the Ground Staff Resources

Organ­isa­tion	Num­bers	Date Act­ive	Work Under­way
CNPA	5 sea­son­al rangers + volun­teer rangers in time	End June	Patrol routes being developed
FLS	Two rangers and one vis­it­or centre assist­ant based at Glen­more. One beat for­est­er and two craftspeople based at Glen­more. Note that most of these staff	To be con­firmed wait­ing for our Safe Work­ing Pro­tocol to be agreed.	Ongo­ing plan­ning. Site reopen­ing being dis­cussed and prioritised.
Rothiemurchus	also have some duties out­side of Glen­more. I full time ranger in post	Ongo­ing	Ongo­ing planning.
Cairngorm Moun­tain RSPB
SNH
Police Scot­land
High­land Council

Key Hot­spots

Key Coun­tryside Loc­a­tion	Risk	Man­ager	Car Park capa­cit­ies & oth­er info	Toi­lets & pro­posed reopen­ing date (where known)
Loch Pit­oul­ish		Pityl­ouish estate	Lim­ited — issues around camp­ing and fires	Not applic­able
Loch an Eilien		Rothiemurchus	Park­ing Spaces 96 plus overflow.	Toi­lets: Loch an Eilein, Single block with Male I cubicle and urin­al Female- 2 cubicles Dis­abled Access & Nappy chan­ging- I cubicle.
Coylumbridge Hotel		Brit­an­nia Hotel	200	Not applic­able
Glen­more		FLS	290 in total Sug­ar Bowl — 40 Allt Mhor — 33 Hay­field — 50 + 50 in field All­tBhan — 12 Vis­it­or Centre — 28 Beach car park – 92 Loch­side — 19 Loch Mor­lich ‑32
Glen­more		THC	Road­side car park­ing, approx­im­ately: ​“ski lane” between vil­lage and snow gates 140; reindeer centre 10; Glen­more shop 5. At the Glen­more end of Loch Mor­lich approx. 10 cars park inform­ally off the road; in addi­tion at very busy times when car parks are full 50+ often park half on the road all along the loch side,	Not applic­able
Cairngorm Moun­tain		CMSL	restrict­ing width on the car­riage­way Car park­ing capa­city in the cas car parks is 600 cars; or 350 cars in the upper car park and max 52 coaches in the lower car park. Car park­ing capa­city in the ciste car parks is 380; and the over­spill car park next to the build­ing brings it to around 420 cars	Closed at present and toi­let in build­ing unlikely to open.
Loch Garten		RSPB Sco­tand	55 + 1 coach Garten, 15 at Mal­lach­ie & 7 at Garten Wood

Key Towns

Vil­lage	Risk	Man­ager	Car Park capa­cit­ies	Toi­lets & pro­posed reopen­ing date (where known)
Aviemore		High­land Council

Key Actions to pro­gress Signage

Action	Own­er	Times­cale
Con­sist­ent sig­nage for sites & access to be developed and dis­trib­uted e.g. car park full.	Adam-Streeter Smith, CNPA	Tem­por­ary signs dis­trib­uted. Con­tract let for devel­op­ing suite to be avail­able by end of June. Done for 28⁄0520
Use vari­able mes­sage sign at Rothiemurchus (con­trolled by CMSL) for key vis­it­or information..	Colin Mat­thews, CMSL

Mes­saging (link to main cairngorms wide comms plan)

Action	Own­er	Times­cale
Con­sist­ent mes­sages deployed across part­ners & CNPA web­site kept up to date with latest inform­a­tion. Start to add what car parks, toi­lets etc are open where at the right time.	Fran­coise Van Bur­ren, CNPA + part­ners comms	Ongo­ing. Already done for weekends

Car park capacity

Action	Own­er	Times­cale
CNPA to talk with FLS about poten­tial works that could be done to help vis­it­or man­age­ment at Glenmore/​Loch Morlich	Pete Crane, CNPA Paul Hib­berd, FLS	Ongo­ing.
Web­cams to be deployed where pos­sible to provide real-time inform­a­tion. Hos­ted on CNPA web­site and oth­ers. Poten­tial to link to user friendly traffic light sys­tem for car parks e.g. red full, green open and available.	Adam Street Smith, CNPA + landowners	By end of June 2020. Tech­nic­al details being looked at.

Toi­lets and Facilities

Action	Own­er	Times­cale
Key pub­lic toi­lets to reopen safely in due course. Key issue and need to get agreed guid­ance of how to do this safely	Loc­al Author­it­ies & site managers	Ongo­ing but review pos­i­tion pri­or to 18 June.
Inform­a­tion to be made clear where bins are not being picked up. Take your let­ter home key message	Site man­agers	Ongo­ing. Skip now in place at beach car park, Loch Morlich