Item5Appendix4cObjection

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 5 Appendix 4C 22/04/2022

AGENDA ITEM 5

APPENDIX 4C

2021/0305/DET

PUB­LIC REP­RES­ENT­A­TIONS- OBJECT

2021/0305/DET

From:Helen Deery Sent: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 19:58:54 +0000 To:Planning Sub­ject: Ref plan­ning applic­a­tion 2021/0305/DET

To whom it may con­cern, please see below com­ments on the planned build­ings on the Stru­an House Hotels, Car­rbridge site. As the first private house on the bound­ary of the Stru­an plot, we are gen­er­ally approv­ing of the draw­ings and plans, we do have some ser­i­ous con­cerns and objec­tions con­cern­ing the last set of 2 flats (cot­tage type C) to the east of the plot and dir­ectly on our boundary.

1. The pos­i­tion of the flats in rela­tion to our own exist­ing house. a. The sit­ing of the build will have 4 win­dows and our back door area look­ing dir­ectly onto a very close and sol­id build­ing. b. Two win­dows from the pro­posed flats will be dir­ectly over­look­ing our prop­erty at close prox­im­ity, dir­ectly into our main liv­ing area and our out­door recre­ation areas. c. The height and sit­ing of the build­ing will com­pletely block all sun­light from our kitchen/​dining room/​lounge, bed­room, bath­room and our spe­cific­ally designed out­door kit­chen garden & BBQ area.
2. The pro­posed pos­i­tion of this block of flats is dir­ectly above our sew­er, our mains water and our elec­tri­city also.
3. The remov­al of a sig­ni­fic­ant amount of long estab­lished trees and the wild­life asso­ci­ated with them.
4. As there are already 3 estab­lished prop­er­ties at this end of the plot, adding in poten­tially a sig­ni­fic­ant amount of cars (plus vis­it­ors) to this nar­row point in the access road will increase traffic flow. Already both Ellan­wood Road res­id­ents, vis­it­ors and neigh­bour­ing houses use this access road to park. Pre­vi­ous own­ers have taken down the bound­ary fence between Stru­an and Ellan­wood road and the state of the exist­ing fence would need replaced all the way down the lane to the last private house.
5. Access into and out of the site from the main road is dif­fi­cult at the moment mainly due to the north view being blocked by a large hedge from Rose Cottage.
6. The entrance in from the main road is nar­row and vehicles are reg­u­larly abruptly stop­ping behind those of us turn­ing down, not appre­ci­at­ing the low speed and turn needed to enter. This along with the sub­stan­tial amount of vehicles using the single entrance road, will inev­it­ably be a much great­er issue due to meet­ing vehicles exiting.

Brendan & Helen Deery Carrwood