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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Item 6 13/11/2020

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

DEVEL­OP­MENT PROPOSED:

Sec­tion 42 applic­a­tion for non-com­pli­ance of Con­di­tion I of Plan­ning Per­mis­sion 19/04135/S42 (replace­ment of ces­sa­tion date 19.11.20 with 19.11.21 at Cairngorm Moun­tain Glen­more Aviemore High­land PH22 IRB

REF­ER­ENCE: 2020/0213/DET

APPLIC­ANT: Cairngorm Moun­tain (Scot­land) Ltd

DATE CALLED-IN: 14 Septem­ber 2020

RECOM­MEND­A­TION: Approve Sub­ject to Conditions

CASE OFFICER: Ed Swales, Mon­it­or­ing and Enforce­ment Officer

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CNPA Plan­ning Committee

Applic­a­tion Site

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Base Sta­tion Lodge 8 730- S CE FB

Crown copy­right and data­base rights 2020. Ord­nance Sur­vey Licence num­ber 100040965

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Item 6 13/11/2020

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SITE DESCRIP­TION, PRO­POS­AL AND HISTORY

Site Descrip­tion

1. Cairngorm Moun­tain is loc­ated in the Glen­more area of the High­lands approx­im­ately 9 miles south east of Aviemore. The moun­tain is one of three ski centres with­in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park and has been oper­at­ing for more than 50 years.

Pro­pos­al

1. The draw­ings and doc­u­ments asso­ci­ated with this applic­a­tion are lis­ted below and are avail­able on the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity web­site unless noted otherwise:

http://​www​.eplan​ningcnpa​.co​.uk/​o​n​line- applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=QGC8RPSI0CH00

Title	Draw­ing Num­ber	Date on Plan*	Date Received
Loc­a­tion Plan	Appendix 2C		14/09/20

*Where no spe­cif­ic day of month has been provided on the plan, the sys­tem defaults to the 1^st of the month.

1. The pro­pos­al is for a snow mak­ing machine, housed with­in a steel ship­ping con­tain­er to be retained on site for a fur­ther year. The loc­a­tion of the struc­ture is on an area of hard­stand­ing, adja­cent to the upper car park­ing area, Base Sta­tion and Day Lodge on Cairngorm Mountain.

His­tory

1. There have been many applic­a­tions asso­ci­ated with the ski centre, in recent years as the oper­at­ors have sought to upgrade the infra­struc­ture around the site.

2. Tem­por­ary con­sent was gran­ted for a single storey snow fact­ory unit on 13.11.17 (Coun­cil ref: 17/04736/FUL). Sub­sequent per­mis­sion was gran­ted for a lar­ger scale snow fact­ory and fur­ther dur­a­tion (Coun­cil ref. 18/05078/FUL). The snow mak­ing fact­ory has been on site for 3 years with this being the 4^th renew­al application.

DEVEL­OP­MENT PLAN CONTEXT

Policies

Nation­al Policy	Scot­tish Plan­ning Policy 2014
Stra­tegic Policy	Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan 2017 – 2022
Loc­al Plan Policy	Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan (2015)
	Those policies rel­ev­ant to the assess­ment of this applic­a­tion are
	marked with a cross
POLICY I	NEW HOUS­ING DEVELOPMENT
POLICY 2	SUP­PORT­ING ECO­NOM­IC GROWTH	X
POLICY 3	SUS­TAIN­ABLE DESIGN	X
POLICY 4	NAT­UR­AL HERITAGE	X
POLICY 5	LAND­SCAPE	X

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|POLICY 6|THE SIT­ING AND DESIGN OF DIGIT­AL| ||COM­MU­NIC­A­TIONS EQUIP­MENT| |POLICY 7|RENEWABLE ENERGY| |POLICY 8|SPORT AND RECREATION|X| |POLICY 9|CULTURAL HER­IT­AGE| |POLICY 10|RESOURCES|X| |POLICY 11|DEVELOPER CONTRIBUTIONS|

1. All new devel­op­ment pro­pos­als require to be assessed in rela­tion to policies con­tained in the adop­ted Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan. The full word­ing of policies can be found at:

http://​cairngorms​.co​.uk/​u​p​l​o​a​d​s​/​d​o​c​u​m​e​n​t​s​/Park Authority/Planning/LDP15.pdf

Plan­ning Guidance

1. Sup­ple­ment­ary guid­ance also forms part of the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan and provides more details about how to com­ply with the policies. Guid­ance that is rel­ev­ant to this applic­a­tion is marked with a cross.

Policy I	New Hous­ing Devel­op­ment Non-Stat­utory Guidance
Policy 2	Sup­port­ing Eco­nom­ic Growth Non-Stat­utory Guidance	X
Policy 3	Sus­tain­able Design Non-Stat­utory Guidance	X
Policy 4	Nat­ur­al Her­it­age Sup­ple­ment­ary Guidance	X
Policy 5	Land­scape Non-Stat­utory Guidance	X
Policy 7	Renew­able Energy Sup­ple­ment­ary Guidance
Policy 8	Sport and Recre­ation Non-Stat­utory Guidance	X
Policy 9	Cul­tur­al Her­it­age Non-Stat­utory Guidance
Policy 10	Resources Non-Stat­utory Guidance	X
Policy 11	Developer Con­tri­bu­tions Sup­ple­ment­ary Guidance

CON­SULTA­TIONS

Sum­mary of the main issues raised by consultees

1. NatureScot offered no new con­sid­er­a­tions for this applic­a­tion, and state their pre­vi­ous response still stands, this was one of no objection.

2. CNPA Land­scape and Eco­logy Advisors offered no com­ments regard­ing this application.

REP­RES­ENT­A­TIONS

1. There have been no rep­res­ent­a­tions received for this application.

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APPRAIS­AL

Prin­ciple

1. This applic­a­tion is made under Sec­tion 42 of the Town and Coun­try Plan­ning (Scot­land) Act 1997 to amend Con­di­tion I of 19/04135/S42 requir­ing the remov­al of the snow mak­ing fact­ory by 19 Novem­ber 2020. The con­di­tion was attached in recog­ni­tion of the tem­por­ary nature of the devel­op­ment and to enable the Plan­ning Author­ity to reas­sess the impact of the devel­op­ment after a giv­en peri­od of time and secure remov­al and restoration.

2. The prin­ciple of the devel­op­ment has been con­sidered accept­able pre­vi­ously. The pro­posed devel­op­ment is for a tem­por­ary peri­od and can be reviewed by the Plan­ning Author­ity at the end of the pro­posed timescale.

3. Policies with­in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan gen­er­ally sup­port the applic­a­tion in that the devel­op­ment will provide for winter sports and sup­port the winter eco­nomy of the sur­round­ing area. Policy 2: Sup­port­ing Eco­nom­ic Growth sup­ports this type of tour­ist and leis­ure devel­op­ment where it will pos­it­ively con­trib­ute to vis­it­or exper­i­ence and where it adds to or extends the core tour­ist sea­son. Policy 8: Sport and Recre­ation fur­ther sup­ports such devel­op­ment where there is an iden­ti­fied vis­it­or need.

Design and Materials

1. Policy 3: Sus­tain­able Design encour­ages devel­op­ment to be sym­path­et­ic to its sur­round­ings and for mater­i­als and land­scap­ing that will com­ple­ment its set­ting. The struc­ture essen­tially has the appear­ance of two met­al ship­ping con­tain­ers, with one placed on top of the oth­er, with fans and oper­at­ing infra­struc­ture on top. While such a struc­ture in this loc­a­tion is not con­sidered best prac­tice, giv­en its tem­por­ary nature it is con­sidered the use of the equip­ment to con­tin­ue for a fur­ther 12 months is con­sidered to be accept­able. Any future per­man­ent struc­ture would require plan­ning per­mis­sion at which time prop­er mit­ig­a­tion through appro­pri­ate sit­ing, screen­ing and/​or col­our fin­ish would be sought.

Envir­on­ment­al and Land­scape Impacts

1. The devel­op­ment is a tem­por­ary struc­ture on land where recre­ation­al use is well estab­lished and where it is accep­ted that addi­tion­al ancil­lary infra­struc­ture may be required. As such it is con­sidered that the con­tin­ued use of the land for the sit­ing of the snow fact­ory will not impact on the wider nat­ur­al her­it­age or land­scape interests of the sur­round­ing area in com­pli­ance with Policy 4: Nat­ur­al Her­it­age and Policy 5: Land­scape of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan.

Ser­vi­cing

1. The struc­ture util­ises exist­ing ser­vices for its water sup­ply, drain­age pro­vi­sion and elec­tri­city sup­ply and as such is in com­pli­ance with Policy 10: Resources of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan.

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CON­CLU­SION

1. All rel­ev­ant mat­ters have been taken into account when apprais­ing this applic­a­tion. It is con­sidered that the pro­pos­al accords with the prin­ciples and policies con­tained with­in the Devel­op­ment Plan and is accept­able in terms of all oth­er applic­able mater­i­al considerations.

2. It is recom­men­ded that tem­por­ary per­mis­sion be gran­ted sub­ject to the recom­men­ded conditions.

RECOM­MEND­A­TION

That Mem­bers of the Com­mit­tee sup­port a recom­mend­a­tion to approve the Sec­tion 42 applic­a­tion for non-com­pli­ance of Con­di­tion I of Plan­ning Per­mis­sion 19/04135/S42 (replace­ment of ces­sa­tion date 19.1.20 with 19.11.21 at Cairngorm Moun­tain Glen­more Aviemore High­land PH22 IRB sub­ject to the fol­low­ing conditions:

Con­di­tions

1. Plan­ning per­mis­sion is hereby gran­ted for a tem­por­ary peri­od only and shall cease to have effect on Novem­ber 19^th 2021 (the ​‘ces­sa­tion date’). Pri­or to the ces­sa­tion date, the applic­a­tion site shall be cleared of all devel­op­ment approved under the terms of this per­mis­sion (includ­ing any sub­sequent ancil­lary works, infra­struc­ture, fix­tures, fit­tings and any tem­por­ary devel­op­ments per­mit­ted under Class 14 of the Town and Coun­try Plan­ning (Gen­er­al Per­mit­ted Devel­op­ment) (Scot­land) Order 1992 (as amended)) and rein­stated in accord­ance to its con­di­tion pri­or to the install­a­tion and sit­ing of the snow­mak­ing fact­ory on the site.

Reas­on: In recog­ni­tion of the tem­por­ary nature of the pro­posed devel­op­ment, to enable the Plan­ning Author­ity to reas­sess the impact of the devel­op­ment after a giv­en peri­od of time and to secure remov­al and res­tor­a­tion in accord­ance with Policy 3: Sus­tain­able Design, Policy 4: Nat­ur­al Her­it­age and Policy 5: Land­scape of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan 2015.

Inform­at­ives

1. Fol­low­ing com­ple­tion of the devel­op­ment, a noti­fic­a­tion of the com­ple­tion shall, as soon as prac­tic­able, be giv­en to the Plan­ning Author­ity. Attached to this decision notice is a Notice of Com­ple­tion of Devel­op­ment for com­ple­tion and sub­mis­sion. Sub­mis­sion of this form will assist the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Mon­it­or­ing and Enforce­ment Officer in mak­ing a final inspec­tion and check­ing com­pli­ance with the approved draw­ings and con­di­tions. If the devel­op­ment hereby approved is to be car­ried out in phases, then a notice of com­ple­tion should be sub­mit­ted at the com­ple­tion of each phase.

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The map on the first page of this report has been pro­duced to aid in the stat­utory pro­cess of deal­ing with plan­ning applic­a­tions. The map is to help identi­fy the site and its sur­round­ings and to aid Plan­ning Officers, Com­mit­tee Mem­bers and the Pub­lic in the determ­in­a­tion of the pro­pos­al. Maps shown in the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Report can only be used for the pur­poses of the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee. Any oth­er use risks infringing Crown Copy­right and may lead to pro­sec­u­tion or civil pro­ceed­ings. Maps pro­duced with­in this Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Report can only be repro­duced with the express per­mis­sion of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity and oth­er Copy­right hold­ers. This per­mis­sion must be gran­ted in advance.

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