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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 11 24/06/2022

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

FOR INFORM­A­TION

Title: PRO­POS­AL OF APPLIC­A­TION NOTI­FIC­A­TION — DEVEL­OP­MENT OF HOL­I­DAY LODGES AND ASSO­CI­ATED INFRA­STRUC­TURE, ON SITE OF DRY SKI SLOPE, MAC­DON­ALD HIGH­LAND RESORT REF­ER­ENCE: PRE/2022/0014

Pre­pared by: Stephanie Wade, Plan­ning Officer (Devel­op­ment Management)

Pur­pose of Report To inform the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee of: a) A Pro­pos­al of Applic­a­tion Noti­fic­a­tion (PAN) b) To allow mem­bers to raise any views on the issues to be addressed in an application.

Recom­mend­a­tion

That the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee: a) Note the Pro­pos­al of Applic­a­tion Noti­fic­a­tion for the devel­op­ment of hol­i­day lodges at the Aviemore Mac­Don­ald High­land Resort b) Note the CNPA Officer’s advice on the issues to address; and c) Make com­ment on any addi­tion­al rel­ev­ant issues to be addressed in any future application.

Back­ground

1. The Plan­ning Com­mit­tee agreed a pro­ced­ure to allow mem­ber involve­ment in pre- applic­a­tion advice for major plan­ning applic­a­tions in Decem­ber 2015. This report informs the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee of the attached Pro­pos­al of Applic­a­tion Notice (PAN). The sub­mis­sion of the PAN accords with the pro­vi­sions of the Plan­ning etc. (Scot­land) Act 2006 and was lodged on 20 May 2022 to High­land Coun­cil. Mem­bers are asked to note this may form the basis of a sub­sequent plan­ning applic­a­tion. The pro­ced­ure involves officers present­ing the inform­a­tion provided with the noti­fic­a­tion along­side an assess­ment from officers on the issues that need to be addressed. Plan­ning Com­mit­tee mem­bers have an oppor­tun­ity to note issues that an applic­a­tion would be expec­ted to address. Mem­bers are not being asked to approve the advice of officers.

2. The sub­mit­ted inform­a­tion attached at Appendix I includes: a) Pro­pos­al of Applic­a­tion Notice b) Loc­a­tion Plan

3. The applic­ant pro­poses to hold their con­sulta­tion event with­in 6 months of the sub­mis­sion date of the PAN for a dur­a­tion of no less than 7 days.

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 11 24/06/2022

The Pro­pos­al

1. The pro­pos­al is the devel­op­ment of hol­i­day lodges with asso­ci­ated infra­struc­ture with­in the Aviemore Mac­Don­ald High­land Resort. The indic­at­ive site lay­out shows the erec­tion of 27 hol­i­day lodges with an intern­al road lay­out, vehicu­lar park­ing and ped­es­tri­an path links.

2. The applic­ant has not sought form­al pre-applic­a­tion advice from the Plan­ning Author­ity via the Pre-Applic­a­tion Advice Ser­vice for Major Devel­op­ments pri­or to lodging this Pro­pos­al of Applic­a­tion Notice.

Site Descrip­tion

1. The site com­prises an area of 2.9ha situ­ated with­in the south-west­ern area of the Mac­Don­ald High­land Resort. The applic­a­tion site is pre­dom­in­antly laid to grass with clusters of trees and a cor­ridor of trees along the west­ern bound­ary which adjoins the A9. An area of hard­stand­ing is loc­ated adja­cent to the intern­al access road on the east­ern side of the site. To the north, the site adjoins the activ­ity and leis­ure centre of the resort, to the east is part of the hotel com­plex and fur­ther leis­ure facil­it­ies and to the south is the wood­land lodges. With­in the south-west­ern corner of the site is a pond and wet­land area. The applic­a­tion site at present includes land recor­ded with­in the Ancient Wood­land Inventory.

2. A copy of the loc­a­tion plan is attached in Appendix I.

Devel­op­ment Plan Context

Nation­al Policy	Scot­tish Plan­ning Policy 2014
Stra­tegic Policy	Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan 2017 – 2022
Loc­al Plan Policy	Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan (2021)
	Those policies rel­ev­ant to the assess­ment of this applic­a­tion are marked with a cross
POLICY I	NEW HOUS­ING DEVELOPMENT
POLICY 2	SUP­PORT­ING ECO­NOM­IC GROWTH	X
POLICY 3	DESIGN & PLACEMAKING	X
POLICY 4	NAT­UR­AL HERITAGE	X
POLICY 5	LAND­SCAPE	X
POLICY 6	THE SIT­ING AND DESIGN OF DIGIT­AL COM­MU­NIC­A­TIONS EQUIPMENT
POLICY 7	RENEW­ABLE ENERGY
POLICY 8	OPEN SPACE, SPORT, AND RECREATION
POLICY 9	CUL­TUR­AL HERITAGE
POLICY 10	RESOURCES	X
POLICY 11	DEVELOPER CON­TRI­BU­TIONS	X

1. All new devel­op­ment pro­pos­als require to be assessed in rela­tion to policies con­tained in the adop­ted Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan. The full word­ing of policies can be found at:

https://​cairngorms​.co​.uk/​w​p​-​c​o​n​t​e​n​t​/​u​p​l​o​a​d​s​/​2​0​2​1​/​0​3​/​C​N​P​A​-​L​D​P​-​2​0​2​1​-​w​e​b.pdf

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 11 24/06/2022

Plan­ning Guidance

1. Sup­ple­ment­ary guid­ance also forms part of the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan and provides more details about how to com­ply with the policies. Guid­ance that is rel­ev­ant to this applic­a­tion is marked with a cross.

Policy I	New Hous­ing Devel­op­ment Non-Stat­utory Guid­ance (2015)
Policy 2	Sup­port­ing Eco­nom­ic Growth Non-Stat­utory Guidance	X
Policy 3	Design and Place­mak­ing Non-Stat­utory Guidance	X
Policy 4	Nat­ur­al Her­it­age Sup­ple­ment­ary Guidance	X
Policy 5	Land­scape Non-Stat­utory Guidance	X
Policy 7	Renew­able Energy Sup­ple­ment­ary Guidance
Policy 8	Sport and Recre­ation Non-Stat­utory Guidance
Policy 9	Cul­tur­al Her­it­age Non-Stat­utory Guidance
Policy 10	Resources Non-Stat­utory Guidance	X
Policy 11	Developer Con­tri­bu­tions Sup­ple­ment­ary Guid­ance (2015)	X

1. With­in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan 2021, the site forms part of a wider alloc­ated area for ​‘mixed use’, under alloc­a­tion Aviemore- MI. The Aviemore High­land Resort is a large site in the centre of Aviemore. It cur­rently has a range of dif­fer­ent uses includ­ing hotels and hol­i­day accom­mod­a­tion, retail, recre­ation, and hous­ing and has under­gone sig­ni­fic­ant devel­op­ment to cre­ate the resort it is today. The alloc­a­tion offers an oppor­tun­ity for the enhance­ment and diver­si­fic­a­tion of the cur­rent uses, includ­ing the pro­vi­sion of addi­tion­al hous­ing, retail, recre­ation, and employ­ment spaces. There is also a Devel­op­ment Brief for the site, which is non stat­utory plan­ning guid­ance provid­ing details on site con­straints and oppor­tun­it­ies and devel­op­ment requirements.

Poten­tial Mater­i­al Plan­ning Considerations

1. The mater­i­al plan­ning con­sid­er­a­tions for any sub­sequent applic­a­tion are: a) The prin­ciple of devel­op­ment b) Land­scape impacts c) Design and Lay­out d) Envir­on­ment­al impacts (includ­ing impact on des­ig­nated sites) e) Ser­vi­cing and access require­ments f) Water, Flood Risk, and Drain­age g) Impacts on neigh­bour­ing amen­ity h) Developer contributions

Con­clu­sion and Next Steps

1. The report presents the inform­a­tion sub­mit­ted to date as part of the PAN. Officers have sum­mar­ised are the policy con­sid­er­a­tions against which any future plan­ning applic­a­tion will be con­sidered as well as the poten­tial mater­i­al plan­ning con­sid­er­a­tions and key issues based on the inform­a­tion avail­able to date. The list is not exhaust­ive and fur­ther mat­ters may arise as and when a plan­ning applic­a­tion is received and in the light of pub­lic rep­res­ent­a­tions and con­sulta­tion responses.

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 11 24/06/2022

1. It is recom­men­ded that the Com­mit­tee notes the sub­mis­sion of the PAN and advises of any mater­i­al issues it wishes be brought to the applicant’s attention.

Stephanie Wade May 2022 stephaniewade@​cairngorms.​co.​uk