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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 5 Appendix 3 24/06/2022

AGENDA ITEM 5

APPENDIX 3

2021/0105/DET

COM­MUNITY COUN­CIL COMMENTS

From:Peter Long Sent:Sat, 12 Feb 2022 15:28:55 +0000 To:Planning; Emma Bryce; Deirdre Straw Sub­ject: RE: Aviemore Com­munity Coun­cil Re-Con­sulta­tion Request for Applic­a­tion 2021/0105/DET Dear Emma/​Deirdre,

Please find below the com­ments from AVCC on this applic­a­tion. I note that it’s not cur­rently pos­sible to add these dir­ectly to the website.

Aviemore and Vicin­ity Com­munity Coun­cil wishes to oppose this applic­a­tion. This is a change in AVCC’s pre­vi­ous pos­i­tion, based in part on the fact that we have seen little evid­ence that con­cerns pre­vi­ously raised have been addressed.

This is a large scale devel­op­ment which could per­man­ently and irre­voc­ably change the char­ac­ter of the vil­lage centre. The pro­pos­als seem to be focussed solely on provid­ing facil­it­ies for vis­it­ors. There is noth­ing here for loc­al people — it should be noted that there are already sev­er­al vacant shop premises in the vil­lage and that many exist­ing loc­al busi­nesses are already strug­gling to attract staff, due in part to the loc­al hous­ing crisis. Such a devel­op­ment can only exacer­bate these issues.

Spe­cific­ally our objec­tions are based upon

1. The scale of the devel­op­ment, which would dom­in­ate Grampi­an Road and the entire vil­lage centre.
2. The bulk and mass­ing of the pro­posed build­ings. The three build­ings pro­posed are all large in them­selves. The group­ing of three such build­ings in such close prox­im­ity is com­pletely inap­pro­pri­ate in the set­ting of a high­land village.
3. The lay­out of the site, with the build­ings grouped around a cent­ral park­ing area, is unat­tract­ive, and effect­ively cre­ate anoth­er car park facing onto Grampi­an Road.
4. The height of the build­ings is such that the devel­op­ment would com­pletely dom­in­ate the sur­round­ings. This is exacer­bated by the rise in the site. The hotel block in par­tic­u­lar would visu­ally dom­in­ate the vil­lage centre.
5. The build­ings them­selves are unat­tract­ive and inap­pro­pri­ate for the set­ting. The mater­i­als and fin­ishes pro­posed exacer­bate this. The pro­posed white render fin­ish gives a fur­ther neg­at­ive visu­al impact.
6. The developer’s own pho­tomont­age clearly shows both the way in which the height and scale would dom­in­ate Grampi­an Road, and the unat­tract­ive and incon­gru­ous impact of the white render finish.
7. The traffic man­age­ment con­cerns pre­vi­ously raised remain unre­solved. The devel­op­ment would res­ult in sig­ni­fic­ant volumes of traffic turn­ing in and out onto Grampi­an Road. This area is already sub­ject to con­ges­tion due to the sim­il­ar impact of the nearby Tesco car-park. The devel­op­ment would inev­it­ably con­trib­ute to fur­ther traffic tail­backs in the vil­lage centre, with the asso­ci­ated noise and air pollution.
8. Con­cerns about the poten­tial flood­ing impact on the Milton burn appear unresolved.

I hope the above is all clear and in order. Best regards Peter Peter Long Chair — AVCC Sent from Mail for Win­dows From: Emma Bryce Sent: 01 Feb­ru­ary 2022 09:24 To: Peter Long; Deirdre Straw Sub­ject: RE: Aviemore Com­munity Coun­cil Re-Con­sulta­tion Request for Applic­a­tion 2021/0105/DET Peter,

Apo­lo­gies for not get­ting back to you. Yes, that’s fine, we will expect your com­ments on the 14^th, Kind regards Emma Emma Bryce

Plan­ning Man­ager (Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment) Man­aid­sear Planaidh (Làim­h­seachadh Leas­a­chaidh) Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity 14 The Square Grant­own-on-Spey PH26 3HG Dir­ect Dial: 01479 870564 Mobile: 07814 282413 Main Switch­board: 01479 873535 Email: emmabryce@​cairngorms.​co.​uk

Please note my work­ing days are Monday to Thursday From: Peter Long [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 01 Feb­ru­ary 2022 09:17 To: Deirdre Straw DeirdreStraw@​cairngorms.​co.​uk Cc: Emma Bryce emmabryce@​cairngorms.​co.​uk Sub­ject: RE: Aviemore Com­munity Coun­cil Re-Con­sulta­tion Request for Applic­a­tion 2021/0105/DET Hi — We’re just plan­ning our agenda for next week. Can you con­firm that com­ments by 14^th Feb­ru­ary will be accept­able? Many thanks Peter

Sent from Mail for Win­dows From: Peter Long Sent: 25 Janu­ary 2022 18:00 To: Deirdre Straw Cc: Emma Bryce Sub­ject: RE: Aviemore Com­munity Coun­cil Re-Con­sulta­tion Request for Applic­a­tion 2021/0105/DET Hi Our next meet­ing is sched­uled for 10 Feb­ru­ary. AVCC very much wishes to dis­cuss this applic­a­tion — we can sub­mit com­ments by Monday 14^th Feb­ru­ary if that is accept­able. Best regards Peter Peter Long Chair — AVCC Sent from Mail for Win­dows From: Deirdre Straw Sent: 25 Janu­ary 2022 12:38

To: Peter Long Cc: Emma Bryce Sub­ject: Aviemore Com­munity Coun­cil Re-Con­sulta­tion Request for Applic­a­tion 2021/0105/DET Please find attached a form­al request for a re-con­sulta­tion on the above applic­a­tion. Addi­tion­al inform­a­tion has now been sub­mit­ted. Details related to this applic­a­tion and the addi­tion­al inform­a­tion can be found online here Simple Search (eplan​ningcnpa​.co​.uk) It is our inten­tion to take this applic­a­tion to our Plan­ning Com­mit­tee on 25^th Feb­ru­ary, 2022, to be determ­ined. There­fore would be grate­ful if you could respond by 8^th Feb­ru­ary, 2022, 14 days, earli­er if at all pos­sible. The Case Officer for this applic­a­tion is Emma Bryce. They can be con­tac­ted by email on emmabryce@​cairngorms.​co.​uk . Please reply with your com­ments dir­ect to planning@​cairngorms.​co.​uk and cc the Case Officer. Please do con­tact us if any fur­ther inform­a­tion is required. Regards, Dee Dee Straw Plan­ning Sys­tems Officer Cairngorms Nation­al Park Authority

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