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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 5 Appendix 4A 22/04/2022 AGENDA ITEM 5 APPENDIX 4A 2021/0305/DET PUB­LIC REP­RES­ENT­A­TIONS- SUP­PORT Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0305/DET Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0305/DET Address: Stru­an House Hotel Car­rbridge High­land PH23 3AS Pro­pos­al: Demoli­tion of derel­ict hotel, togeth­er with the erec­tion of 10(No.) afford­able flats, and asso­ci­ated park­ing. Case Officer: Stephanie Wade Cus­tom­er Details Name: Neil Mac­don­ald Address: Rose Cot­tage Car­rbridge Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er made com­ments in sup­port of the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:Dear Sirs, Thank you for con­sult­ing us as a neigh­bour to the pro­pos­al at the former Stru­an House Hotel. Although the Stru­an was an icon­ic part of the story of the strath, it has been derel­ict and an eye­sore for in excess of 11 years and it detracts from the vil­lage. The cur­rent pro­pos­als are well con­ceived, are of an appro­pri­ate style, mass­ing and dens­ity for the site and are to be wel­comed. We sup­port the applic­a­tion and hope the approv­al and there­after the works can be under­taken quickly. Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0305/DET Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0305/DET Address: Stru­an House Hotel Car­rbridge High­land PH23 3AS Pro­pos­al: Demoli­tion of derel­ict hotel, togeth­er with the erec­tion of 10(No.) afford­able flats, and asso­ci­ated park­ing. Case Officer: Stephanie Wade Cus­tom­er Details Name: Dr Dagny Gask­ing Address: Seann Bhruthach Carr-Bridge Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er made com­ments in sup­port of the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:On 1 Octo­ber 2021 I con­tac­ted Norr Con­sult­ants query­ing the fact that I had not received neigh­bour noti­fic­a­tion for the devel­op­ment. Whilst my house (behind the Stru­an House Hotel) does not share a tech­nic­al bound­ary with the pro­posed devel­op­ment site, I and my neigh­bours share a leg­al right of vehicle access with the hotel and the new devel­op­ment, and so we are likely to be dir­ectly impacted by the pro­ject, both dur­ing the build­ing phase and there­after. I was dir­ec­ted by Norr to con­tact Stephanie Wade at the Nation­al Park with my ques­tion, which I did by email on the same day, copy­ing details of the exchange of emails with Norr. I have had no response to my email. One spe­cif­ic point which I would draw atten­tion to, is that for many years there has been a reg­u­lar flow of water that appears on the present hotel drive approx­im­ately level with the now over­grown former car park. This arises each year dur­ing the sum­mer months and is easy to see from a series of large puddles, even in the driest weath­er. I under­stand that this was raised some years back with Scot­tish Water as a pos­sible water sup­ply or sew­er leak but they repor­ted then that it was noth­ing to do with any of their ser­vices. My thought has always been that it might be evid­ence of a his­tor­ic under­ground stream (Stru­an = stream) which once flowed down from the Main Street towards my prop­erty at the back, where there was a series of under­ground tanks that drained out into the woods behind, pri­or to the pub­lic sew­er. Broadly speak­ing, like most people in the imme­di­ate area, I am in sup­port of the redevel­op­ment which will finally offers a solu­tion to the 15-year increas­ing eye­sore of the hotel.