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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 5 Appendix 2 11/11/2022

AGENDA ITEM 5

APPENDIX 2

2022/0291/DET

REP­RES­ENT­A­TIONS OBJECTION

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 22/03239/FUL

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 22/03239/FUL Address: Land 225M East Of Carr Farm Carr Road Car­rbridge Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of tem­por­ary sales cab­in Case Officer: Laura May

Cus­tom­er Details Name Address: Not Available

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:There is a prob­lem with speed­ing vehicles along the stretch of Carr Road at Carr Place, and I think every­one hopes that, once the Tul­loch estate is fully open, the gen­er­al traffic speed will slow down a bit. How­ever, that’s not in the near future and, although planned, there’s no sign of the new 20mph sig­nage being set up yet — appar­ently due to short­age of coun­cil staff, and fur­ther site entrances have been and are being opened.

I am unhappy about yet anoth­er access road open­ing on to this stretch of road at a time when pretty much all traffic con­trol has been removed.

Com­ing west from Dul­nain, there’s only one 30mph sign when appar­ently there should be one on each side of the road. The Coun­cil have now removed the traffic calm­ing meas­ures, that accom­pan­ied the hous­ing devel­op­ment approv­al, from the plans for this stretch. Oddly enough, they are still on the plan for the Sales Office application.

After util­it­ies for the new devel­op­ment were installed along it, the road at Carr Place became wider from the east of the devel­op­ment and this seems to have encour­aged high­er speeds than before, but it nar­rows again above the bend at Carr Cot­tages … just where speed­ing vehicles from the east usu­ally brake hard, and those head­ing east accel­er­ate hard. Then there are ped­es­tri­ans and oth­er road users who may have the mis­for­tune to be near the bend at the wrong time. It’s just a mat­ter of time before there’s a ser­i­ous accident.

So, although the Sales Office request is not unreas­on­able, it will incur addi­tion­al risk until such times as some­thing is done about traffic man­age­ment. I think even tem­por­ary 20mph signs placed along the road at this stretch would help until such times as per­man­ent ones are installed to reflect the lower speed limit.