Item 5 Appendix 2: CC comments Morlich Court Aviemore 20240260DET

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Ugh­dar­ras Pairc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh Item 5 Appendix 2 29 August 2025 Page 1 of 3

Agenda item 5

Appendix 2

2024/0260/DET

Com­munity coun­cil comments

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2024/0260/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2024/0260/DET Address: 21 Mor­lich Court Aviemore High­land PH22 1SL Pro­pos­al: Demoli­tion of build­ing, erec­tion of 8no. semi­de­tached and 6no. cot­tage flats Case Officer: Colin Bryans

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Mr Alastair Dar­gie Address: Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Com­munity Coun­cil Stance: Cus­tom­er made com­ments in sup­port of the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:Aviemore & Vicin­ity Com­munity Coun­cil dis­cussed this applic­a­tion at our Octo­ber meet­ing and agreed to SUP­PORT the devel­op­ment but would like to raise the fol­low­ing points.

It is pos­it­ive to see the plans to replace a derel­ict, unsightly and imprac­tic­able build­ing to help meet the loc­al hous­ing demand.

How­ever, we have the fol­low­ing con­cerns with the application.

1. For build­ing Type B, the height and prox­im­ity to the adja­cent prop­er­ties (which are bun­ga­lows) on Mor­lich Place is a sig­ni­fic­ant con­cern. These could be situ­ated fur­ther away from the bound­ary fence redu­cing the impact on the bun­ga­lows on Mor­lich Place.

2. The Type C block (cot­tage flats) is sig­ni­fic­antly high­er than the pre­vi­ous build­ing and this will impact on neigh­bours in Milton Park. The large con­tinu­ous roof line from the top of the build­ing to the entrances on the ground floor cre­ates a large unin­ter­rup­ted face of met­al roof­ing, which is overly impos­ing. This could be improved by util­ising roof lights in the stair­wells to break up the roof line

3. The clad­ding on the build­ings appears to give an indus­tri­al appear­ance that is over­bear­ing, this is espe­cially rel­ev­ant on the ver­tic­al faces where met­al clad­ding is being used (Types A and B). A strong sug­ges­tion for this to be changed to altern­at­ives such as the Har­die VL plank for build­ing types A and B. As well as con­sid­er­a­tion of light­er shades to break up the col­our pal­let from the roof line down on all build­ing types.

4. The indic­at­ive loc­a­tion of the air source heat pumps for the Type C build­ing, dir­ectly out­side a

bed­room win­dow is inap­pro­pri­ate and must be moved, the noise that can be gen­er­ated from these units can be significant.

1. The plans do not appear to include any form of snow guard­ing to pre­vent an uncon­trolled release of snow from the met­al roofs. Giv­en the size of the roofs and the poten­tial for slides of built-up snow on met­al roofs this must be included.