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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 5 Appendix 4 28/08/2020

AGENDA ITEM 5

APPENDIX 4

2020/0064/PPP

COM­MUNITY COUN­CIL COMMENTS

Nethy Bridge and Vicin­ity Com­munity Coun­cil Applic­a­tion 20/00822/PIP Land At School Road And Craigmore Road Nethy Bridge

Plan­ning Depart­ment Cairngorms Nation­al Park, Grant­own on Spey Dear Sirs, 5^th March ​‘20 As the Com­munity Coun­cil with respons­ib­il­ity for this devel­op­ment site we would reit­er­ate our qual­i­fied sup­port for this devel­op­ment on the site. While the sup­port­ing draw­ings are described as indic­at­ive we would ask that the devel­op­ment is car­ried out in the most sens­it­ive of ways. We would ask that the houses are built on indi­vidu­al cleared spaces among the trees thus allow­ing as many of the semi mature trees to sur­vive. We would also want the belt of trees adja­cent to the road be retained and not felled before being replanted. As far as the offer of the area adja­cent to the Nethy Bridge Hotel to the com­munity is con­cerned we would wel­come this, how­ever as this is cur­rently a very wel­come open space with­in the vil­lage we would prefer that com­pens­at­ory plant­ing was not car­ried out on this area oth­er than some around the fringes. Nethy Bridge is already a very for­es­ted vil­lage and tree­less areas with­in the vil­lage are a wel­come open space. Ori­gin­ally when the devel­op­ment of the School Wood was con­sidered the vil­lage was offered by the developers the entire area of their land­hold­ing exclud­ing the devel­op­ment area. The vil­lage would wel­come the dona­tion of the forest adja­cent to the Nethy Bridge golf course and run­ning up to School Road which could then be man­aged in per­petu­ity for the bene­fit of the vil­lage as pre­vi­ously offered. Yours sin­cerely, Sandy McCook, Chairman