CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 6 26/08/2022

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

FOR INFORM­A­TION

Title: PRO­POS­AL OF APPLIC­A­TION NOTI­FIC­A­TION — NON-MOTOR­ISED USER (NMU) ROUTE BETWEEN THE SET­TLE­MENTS OF AVIEMORE AND CARRBRIDGE

REF­ER­ENCE: PRE/2022/0016

Pre­pared by: Emma Bryce, Plan­ning Man­ager (Devel­op­ment Management)

Pur­pose of Report

To inform the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee of: a) A Pro­pos­al of Applic­a­tion Noti­fic­a­tion (PAN) b) To allow mem­bers to raise any views on the issues to be addressed in an application.

Recom­mend­a­tion

That the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee: a) Note the Pro­pos­al of Applic­a­tion Noti­fic­a­tion for a new non-motor­ised user route between Aviemore and Car­rbridge; b) Note the CNPA Officer’s advice on the issues to address; and c) Make com­ment on any addi­tion­al rel­ev­ant issues to be addressed in any future application.

Back­ground

1. The Plan­ning Com­mit­tee agreed a pro­ced­ure to allow mem­ber involve­ment in pre- applic­a­tion advice for major plan­ning applic­a­tions in Decem­ber 2015. This report informs the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee of the attached Pro­pos­al of Applic­a­tion Notice (PAN). The sub­mis­sion of the PAN accords with the pro­vi­sions of the Plan­ning etc. (Scot­land) Act 2006 and was lodged on 15 June to High­land Coun­cil. Mem­bers are asked to note this may form the basis of a sub­sequent plan­ning applic­a­tion. The pro­ced­ure involves officers present­ing the inform­a­tion provided with the noti­fic­a­tion along­side an assess­ment from officers on the issues that need to be addressed. Plan­ning Com­mit­tee mem­bers have an oppor­tun­ity to note issues that an applic­a­tion would be expec­ted to address. Mem­bers are not being asked to approve the advice of officers.

2. The sub­mit­ted inform­a­tion attached at Appendix I includes: a) Pro­pos­al of Applic­a­tion Notice b) Loc­a­tion Plan c) Pre-applic­a­tion response

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 6 26/08/2022

1. The applic­ant has car­ried out a pub­lic event, an exhib­i­tion on 25 and 26 May and a vir­tu­al exhib­i­tion which ran from 23 May until 15^th June. A fur­ther con­sulta­tion event is required to be under­taken with­in the next twelve weeks fol­low­ing the sub­mis­sion of the PAN.

The Pro­pos­al

1. The pro­pos­al is for a new shared use non-motor­ised user route approx­im­ately 10km in length link­ing Aviemore and Carrbridge.

2. The applic­ant has pre­vi­ously sought the pre-applic­a­tion advice from High­land Coun­cil and the CNPA provided advice dur­ing that pro­cess. A copy of the CNPA’s pre- applic­a­tion advice is included as Appendix 1.

Site Descrip­tion

1. The route will fol­low the exist­ing road cor­ridors of the B9152, A95 and B9153. It will start on the east­ern side of the B9152 at Dal­faber Drive con­tinu­ing north where the route will cross the Gran­ish Junc­tion from the east­ern side of the B9152 to the west of the A95. The route will then con­tin­ue along the west­ern side of the A95/B9153 until it reaches Car­rbridge. The route will not fall with­in any stat­utory des­ig­nated sites for nature con­ser­va­tion, although there are sev­er­al with­in the wider area. The route will be adja­cent to and pass through sev­er­al small par­cels of wood­land lis­ted on the Ancient Wood­land Invent­ory. An Envir­on­ment­al Impact Assess­ment will be undertaken.

2. A copy of the loc­a­tion plan is attached in Appendix 1.

Devel­op­ment Plan Context

Nation­al Policy	Scot­tish Plan­ning Policy 2014
Stra­tegic Policy	Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan 2017- 2022
Loc­al Plan Policy	Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan (2021)
	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	DESIGN & PLACEMAKING	X
POLICY 4	NAT­UR­AL HERITAGE	X
POLICY 5	LAND­SCAPE	X
POLICY 6	THE SIT­ING AND DESIGN OF DIGIT­AL COM­MU­NIC­A­TIONS EQUIPMENT
POLICY 7	RENEW­ABLE ENERGY
POLICY 8	OPEN SPACE, SPORT, AND RECREATION	X
POLICY 9	CUL­TUR­AL HERITAGE	X
POLICY 10	RESOURCES	X
POLICY 11	DEVELOPER OBLIG­A­TIONS

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:

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 6 26/08/2022

https://​cairngorms​.co​.uk/​w​p​-​c​o​n​t​e​n​t​/​u​p​l​o​a​d​s​/​2​0​2​1​/​0​3​/​C​N​P​A​-​L​D​P​-​2​0​2​1​-​w​e​b.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 (2015)
Policy 2	Sup­port­ing Eco­nom­ic Growth Non-Stat­utory Guidance	X
Policy 3	Design and Place­mak­ing 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	X
Policy 10	Resources Non-Stat­utory Guidance	X
Policy 11	Developer Oblig­a­tions Sup­ple­ment­ary Guid­ance (2015)

Poten­tial Mater­i­al Plan­ning Considerations

1. The mater­i­al plan­ning con­sid­er­a­tions for any sub­sequent applic­a­tion are: a) The prin­ciple of devel­op­ment b) Land­scape impacts c) Design and Lay­out d) Impacts on amen­ity e) Envir­on­ment­al impacts (includ­ing impact on any des­ig­nated sites) f) Pub­lic access g) Flood­ing and sur­face water management

Con­clu­sion and Next Steps

1. The report presents the inform­a­tion sub­mit­ted to date as part of the PAN. Officers have sum­mar­ised the policy con­sid­er­a­tions against which any future plan­ning applic­a­tion will be con­sidered as well as the poten­tial mater­i­al plan­ning con­sid­er­a­tions and key issues based on the inform­a­tion avail­able to date. The list is not exhaust­ive and fur­ther mat­ters may arise as and when a plan­ning applic­a­tion is received and in the light of pub­lic rep­res­ent­a­tions and con­sulta­tion responses.

2. It is recom­men­ded that the Com­mit­tee notes the sub­mis­sion of the PAN and advises of any mater­i­al issues it wishes be brought to the applicant’s attention.

Emma Bryce August 2022 emmabryce@​cairngorms.​co.​uk