Item6 Appendix4 Objection20200081DET

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 6 Appendix 4 26/06/2020

AGENDA ITEM 6

APPENDIX 4

2020/0081/DET

REP­RES­ENT­A­TIONS OBJECTION

BSCG info From:BSCG info Sent:27 Apr 2020 23:56:37 +0100 To:Planning Subject:2020/0081/DET

Badenoch & Strath­spey Con­ser­va­tion Group Fiod­hag, Nethy­bridge, Inverness-shire PH25 3DJ

Scot­tish Char­ity No. SC003846 Email info@​bscg.​org.​uk Web­site bscg​.org​.uk/

Ed Swales CNPA

27 April 2020

Dear Ed 2020/0081/DET | Reten­tion of ten wig­wam accom­mod­a­tion units | Spey­side Trust Bad­aguish Out­door Centre Glen­more Aviemore High­land PH22 1QU

BSCG objects to the above plan­ning applic­a­tion. We request the oppor­tun­ity to address the com­mit­tee when this applic­a­tion is determ­ined. We are aware that this applic­a­tion is for the reten­tion of 10 accom­mod­a­tion cab­ins that have been on the site for some years. The Spey­side Trust have had ample time to com­ply with con­di­tions. We do not con­sider that provid­ing an extra 3 years is accept­able. It is dif­fi­cult to see how the reas­ons provided for need­ing three fur­ther years (lack of funds and run down appear­ance of the site) would not apply in three years time. We con­sider the scale of con­sen­ted accom­mod­a­tion at Bad­aguish is excess­ive and there is no jus­ti­fic­a­tion for retain­ing this scale, espe­cially in present cir­cum­stances and giv­en the prox­im­ity to sens­it­ive des­ig­nated sites. The per­sist­ent demon­strable fail­ure of the applic­ant to com­ply with the Vis­it­or Man­age­ment Plan v5 (as required under con­di­tions) adds to the jus­ti­fic­a­tion for redu­cing the scale of con­sen­ted accom­mod­a­tion at Badaguish.

It is of par­tic­u­lar con­cern to BSCG that the plan­ning con­di­tions relat­ing to caper­cail­lie con­ser­va­tion appear to have been treated with con­tempt by the Trust. As the CNPA should be well aware, the notices advising people to stay on des­ig­nated routes were erec­ted the even­ing pri­or to the Board’s site vis­it, were erec­ted com­plete with a spelling error that remains uncor­rec­ted to the present day, with some sig­nage of poor qual­ity, and in the wrong ori­ent­a­tion such that the paths that the notices appear to refer to are the

paths with­in the 35 wig­wam and moun­tain bike course area. It is the paths that are out­with the Bad­aguish site, in the sur­round­ing Glen­more Forest that the sig­nage should refer to. We note that SNH’s view to devel­op­ment at Bad­aguish as expressed in 2015 was based on the detail of the applicant’s Vis­it­or Man­age­ment Plan (v5) being adhered to. Without mit­ig­a­tion SNH iden­ti­fied likely sig­ni­fic­ant impacts on the integ­rity of the SPA. Yours sin­cerely Gus Jones Convener