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Agenda Item 6

Appendix 2

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 6 Appendix 2 25/04/2025

2025/0008/DET

Rep­res­ent­a­tion — support

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 24/01903/APP

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 24/01903/APP Address: Land At Geal Charn Lower Glenavon Estate Inchory Lodge Tomin­toul Ballindal­loch Moray AB37 9HX Pro­pos­al: Pro­posed tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions install­a­tion com­pris­ing of a new 15.0m high lat­tice tower on new con­crete base, 3no shared anten­nas, 2no dishes, 4no cab­in­ets, 2no 9m (hub height) micro tur­bines, a sol­ar array, 1no gen­er­at­or com­pound and ancil­lary devel­op­ment at Case Officer: Iain T Drummond

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Mr Keith Waudby

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Mem­ber of the Pub­lic Stance: Cus­tom­er made com­ments in sup­port of the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:16 Janu­ary 2025

APPLIC­A­TION REF­ER­ENCE: 24/01903/APP

PRO­POSED DEVEL­OP­MENT: Pro­posed tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions install­a­tion com­pris­ing of a new 15.0m high lat­tice tower on new con­crete base, 3no shared anten­nas, 2no dishes, 4no cab­in­ets, 2no 9m (hub height) micro tur­bines, a sol­ar array, 1no gen­er­at­or com­pound and ancil­lary development.

LOC­A­TION: Land At Geal Charn Lower, Glenavon Estate, Inchory Lodge, Tomin­toul, Ballindal­loch, Moray. AB37 9HX.

Response by Arqiva

We refer to the above applic­a­tion and thank you for the oppor­tun­ity to com­ment on the pro­posed development.

Arqiva is respons­ible for provid­ing the trans­mis­sion net­work for the BBC & ITV along with the major­ity of the UK’s radio com­pan­ies and is respons­ible for ensur­ing the integ­rity of Re-Broad­cast Links. Tall infra­struc­ture such as wind tur­bines and oth­er tall struc­tures have the poten­tial to block radio trans­mis­sion links and rebroad­cast­ing links (through dir­ect block­ing of radio sig­nal or deflect­ing sig­nal). Our radio trans­mis­sion net­works nor­mally oper­ate with a 100m buf­fer either side

of a radio link, free from inter­fer­ence by a tall development.

We have con­sidered wheth­er this devel­op­ment is likely to have an adverse effect on our oper­a­tions and have con­cluded that we have no concerns.

If you would like to dis­cuss this mat­ter fur­ther, please do make con­tact via our email inbox windfarms@​arqiva.​com