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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 5 Appendix 2 09/12/2022 AGENDA ITEM 5 APPENDIX 2 2022/0167/DET HRA

HAB­IT­ATS REG­U­LA­TIONS APPRAIS­AL | | | | : — — — — — — — — — — | : — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — | | Plan­ning ref­er­ence and pro­pos­al inform­a­tion | 2022/0167/DET Re-loc­a­tion of sew­er pump­ing sta­tion, land north west of Dal­faber Farm, Dal­faber Drive, Aviemore (pre­vi­ous loc­a­tion approved as part of lar­ger hous­ing devel­op­ment 2021/0307/DET) | | Appraised by | Nina Caudrey – Plan­ning Officer (Devel­op­ment Plan­ning and Envir­on­ment­al Advice) | | Date | 18 May 2022 | | Checked by | | | Date | |

INFORM­A­TION | | | | : — — — — — — — — — — | : — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — | | European site details | | | Name of European site(s) poten­tially affected | River Spey SAC | | Qual­i­fy­ing interest(s) | Atlantic sal­mon, fresh water pearl mus­sel, sea lamprey and otter | | Con­ser­va­tion object­ives for qual­i­fy­ing interests | |

River Spey SAC: Con­ser­va­tion Object­ive 2. To ensure that the integ­rity of the River Spey SAC is restored by meet­ing object­ives 2a, 2b, 2c for each qual­i­fy­ing fea­ture (and 2^d for fresh­wa­ter pearl mus­sel): 2b. Restore the dis­tri­bu­tion of fresh­wa­ter pearl mus­sel through­out the site 2c. Restore the hab­it­ats sup­port­ing fresh­wa­ter pearl mus­sel with­in the site and avail­ab­il­ity of food 2^d. Restore the dis­tri­bu­tion and viab­il­ity of fresh­wa­ter pearl mus­sel host spe­cies and their sup­port­ing hab­it­ats 2a. Restore the pop­u­la­tion of fresh­wa­ter pearl mus­sel as a viable com­pon­ent of the site 2b. Main­tain the dis­tri­bu­tion of sea lamprey through­out the site 2c. Main­tain the hab­it­ats sup­port­ing sea lamprey with­in the site and avail­ab­il­ity of food 2a. Main­tain the pop­u­la­tion of sea lamprey as a viable com­pon­ent of the site 2b. Restore the dis­tri­bu­tion of Atlantic sal­mon through­out the site 2c. Restore the hab­it­ats sup­port­ing Atlantic sal­mon with­in the site and avail­ab­il­ity of food 2a. Restore the pop­u­la­tion of Atlantic sal­mon, includ­ing range of genet­ic types, as a viable com­pon­ent of the site 2b. Main­tain the dis­tri­bu­tion of otter through­out the site 2c. Main­tain the hab­it­ats sup­port­ing otter with­in the site and avail­ab­il­ity of food 2a. Main­tain the pop­u­la­tion of otter as a viable com­pon­ent of the site Con­ser­va­tion Object­ive I. To ensure that the qual­i­fy­ing fea­tures of the River Spey SAC are in favour­able con­di­tion and make an appro­pri­ate con­tri­bu­tion to achiev­ing favour­able con­ser­va­tion status

APPRAIS­AL | | | | : — — - | : — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — - | | STAGE 1: | | | What is the plan or pro­ject? | | | Rel­ev­ant sum­mary details of pro­pos­al (includ­ing loc­a­tion, tim­ing, meth­ods, etc) | The applic­a­tion is for a revised loc­a­tion of the waste water pump­ing sta­tion that was con­sen­ted as part of 2021/0307/DET (which was also for hous­ing). In Octo­ber 2021 Scot­tish Water con­firmed for 2021/0307/DET that there is capa­city for mains waste water con­nec­tion. No change to the pump­ing sta­tion capa­city is pro­posed and no private treat­ment works are pro­posed. The revised loc­a­tion is approx­im­ately 15m to the north of the con­sen­ted location. |

River Spey SAC is approx­im­ately 125 m to the east of the pro­posed devel­op­ment. The SAC is across the well used Spey Val­ley golf course, with no dir­ect water­course con­nectiv­ity. The edge of the SAC has veget­a­tion and mature trees cre­at­ing a ripari­an riverb­ank strip between the golf course and river. | | | | : — — - | : — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — | | STAGE 2: | | | Is the plan or pro­ject dir­ectly con­nec­ted with or neces­sary for the man­age­ment of the European site for nature con­ser­va­tion? | | | No. | | | STAGE 3: | | | Is the plan or pro­ject (either alone or in-com­bin­a­tion with oth­er plans or pro­jects) likely to have a sig­ni­fic­ant effect on the site(s)? | |

River Spey SAC No LSE due to no dir­ect water course con­nectiv­ity and no indir­ect effects likely from the pro­posed devel­op­ment and asso­ci­ated infra­struc­ture due to the inter­ven­ing golf course and topo­graphy, so no effects on hab­it­ats and sup­port­ing pro­cesses of the qual­i­fy­ing interests. While the pro­posed devel­op­ment site is in places with­in 200m of the SAC, which is the dis­turb­ance zone for breed­ing otter, the inter­ven­ing golf course that goes up to the bound­ary of the river and SAC is well used. This will not change as a res­ult of the pro­posed devel­op­ment. There­fore any otter in the vicin­ity will already be used to the exist­ing level of human activ­ity, which should not change as a res­ult of the revised loc­a­tion of the pump­ing sta­tion, and so there will be no LSE through dis­turb­ance to otter as a res­ult of the pro­posed devel­op­ment. There­fore the River Spey SAC is not con­sidered fur­ther in this apprais­al. | | | | : — — - | : — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — | | STAGE 4: | | | Under­take an Appro­pri­ate Assess­ment of the implic­a­tions for the site(s) in view of the(ir) con­ser­va­tion objectives | |

STAGE 5:
Can it be ascer­tained that there will not be an adverse effect on site integrity?