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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 6 Appendix | 27/01/2023

AGENDA ITEM 6

APPENDIX I

PLAN­NING PER­FORM­ANCE FRAME­WORK REPORT 2021 – 22

PER­FORM­ANCE MARK­ERS REPORT 2021 – 22 Name of plan­ning author­ity: Cairngorms Nation­al Park Authority

The High Level Group on Per­form­ance agreed a set of per­form­ance mark­ers. We have assessed your report against those mark­ers to give an indic­a­tion of pri­or­ity areas for improve­ment action. The high level group will mon­it­or and eval­u­ate how the key mark­ers have been repor­ted and the value which they have added.

The Red, Amber, Green rat­ings are based on the evid­ence provided with­in the PPF reports. Where no inform­a­tion or insuf­fi­cient evid­ence has been provided, a ​‘red’ mark­ing has been alloc­ated. No. | Per­form­ance Mark­er | RAG rat­ing | Com­ments —-| — -| — -| — - 1 | Decision-mak­ing: con­tinu­ous reduc­tion of aver­age times­cales for all devel­op­ment cat­egor­ies [Q1 — Q4] | Green | Major Applic­a­tions | | | You determ­ined no applic­a­tions for major devel­op­ments in 2021 – 22 | | | RAG = n/​a | | | Loc­al (Non-House­hold­er) Applic­a­tions | | | Your aver­age times­cale of 6.8 weeks is faster than the pre­vi­ous year and faster than the Scot­tish aver­age of 13.5 weeks. | | | RAG = Green | | | House­hold­er Applic­a­tions | | | You determ­ined no applic­a­tions for house­hold­er devel­op­ments in 2020 – 21 | | | RAG = n/​a | | | Over­all RAG = Green 2 | Pro­cessing agree­ments: | Green | Your report notes that pro­cessing agree­ments are offered on all applic­a­tions called-in: 92.9% of applic­a­tions determ­ined by CNPA were sub­ject to a pro­cessing agree­ment | • offer to all pro­spect­ive applic­ants for major devel­op­ment plan­ning applic­a­tions; and | | RAG = Green | • avail­ab­il­ity pub­li­cised on web­site | | Pro­cessing agree­ment inform­a­tion is pub­li­cised on your web­site. | | | RAG = Green | | | Over­all Rat­ing = Green 3 | Early col­lab­or­a­tion with applic­ants and con­sul­tees | Green | You provide a pre-applic­a­tion advice ser­vice which is pro­moted through an advice note. Num­ber of applic­a­tions sub­ject to pre-applic­a­tion advice increased from 2% in ²⁰⁄₂₁ to 21% in ²¹⁄₂₂. | • avail­ab­il­ity and pro­mo­tion of pre-applic­a­tion dis­cus­sions for all pro­spect­ive applic­a­tions; and | | RAG = Green | • clear and pro­por­tion­ate requests for sup­port­ing inform­a­tion | | Plan­ning guid­ance provides clar­ity on inform­a­tion required to sup­port applic­a­tions. The role of pre-applic­a­tion advice is out­lined in two of your case stud­ies. | | | RAG = Green | | | Over­all RAG = Green

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4 | Leg­al agree­ments: con­clude (or recon­sider) applic­a­tions after resolv­ing to grant per­mis­sion redu­cing num­ber of live applic­a­tions more than 6 months after res­ol­u­tion to grant (from last report­ing peri­od) | Green | No applic­a­tions with leg­al agree­ments not sub­ject to pro­cessing agree­ments were determ­ined dur­ing this report­ing peri­od. 5 | Enforce­ment charter updated / re- pub­lished with­in last 2 years | Green | Your enforce­ment charter was updated in Septem­ber 2021 6 | Con­tinu­ous improve­ment: | Green | You have com­pleted 8 out of 11 of your improve­ment com­mit­ments with the remain­ing 3 com­mit­ments par­tially com­pleted. You have iden­ti­fied a good range of improve­ment com­mit­ments for the com­ing year. | • pro­gress ambi­tious and rel­ev­ant ser­vice improve­ment com­mit­ments iden­ti­fied through PPF report | | 7 | Loc­al devel­op­ment plan less than 5 years since adop­tion | Green | Your devel­op­ment plan was adop­ted in March 2021 8 | Devel­op­ment plan scheme – next LDP: | Green | A new Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme was pub­lished in Septem­ber 2021. No indic­at­ive times­cale set for the next LDP as cur­rent LDP has recently been adop­ted. | • on course for adop­tion with­in 5 years of cur­rent plan(s) adop­tion; and | | | • pro­ject planned and expec­ted to be delivered to planned times­cale | | 9 & 10 | LDP Engage­ment: | N/A | The LDP was recently adop­ted and there­fore no engage­ment has occurred for the next LDP as of yet. | • stake­hold­ers includ­ing Elec­ted Mem­bers, industry, agen­cies, the pub­lic and Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment are engaged appro­pri­ately through all key stages of devel­op­ment plan pre­par­a­tion. | | 11 | Policy Advice | Green | Recently updated LDP provides basis for up to date policy. New non-stat­utory Design and Place­mak­ing guid­ance was due to be adop­ted after the end of the report­ing peri­od in April 2022. Two fur­ther pieces of non-stat­utory guid­ance on Developers Con­tri­bu­tion and Hous­ing are being pro­gressed and will be adop­ted in the fol­low­ing report­ing peri­od. | • Pro­duc­tion of rel­ev­ant and up to date policy advice | | 12 | Cor­por­ate work­ing across ser­vices to improve out­puts and ser­vices for cus­tom­er bene­fit (for example: pro­to­cols; joined-up ser­vices; single con­tact arrange­ments; joint pre-applic­a­tion advice) | Green | The case study on revis­ing the envir­on­ment­al advice demon­strated cor­por­ate approach taken by coun­cil. 13 | Shar­ing good prac­tice, skills and know­ledge between author­it­ies | Green | You con­tin­ue to share best prac­tice with the North of Scot­land devel­op­ment for­um. Officers are also act­ive in the RTPI North of Scot­land Chapter.

Scot­tish Min­is­ters, spe­cial advisers and the Per­man­ent Sec­ret­ary are covered by the terms of the Lob­by­ing (Scot­land) Act 2016. See www.lobbying.scot

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14 | Stalled sites / leg­acy cases: con­clu­sion or with­draw­al of old plan­ning applic­a­tions and redu­cing num­ber of live applic­a­tions more than one year old | Green | No leg­acy cases remain­ing at end of report­ing peri­od 15 | Developer con­tri­bu­tions: clear and pro­por­tion­ate expect­a­tions | Green | LDP and sup­ple­ment­ary guid­ance both set out inform­a­tion on developer con­tri­bu­tions. Updated sup­ple­ment­ary guid­ance will be con­sul­ted on in 2021 – 22. | • set out in devel­op­ment plan (and/​or emer­ging plan); and | | RAG = Green | • in pre-applic­a­tion dis­cus­sions | | Referred to in pre-applic­a­tion dis­cus­sions where rel­ev­ant. | | | RAG = Green | | | Over­all RAG = Green

Scot­tish Min­is­ters, spe­cial advisers and the Per­man­ent Sec­ret­ary are covered by the terms of the Lob­by­ing (Scot­land) Act 2016. See www.lobbying.scot

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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Per­form­ance against Key Markers

Mark­er	13 – 14	14 – 15	15 – 16	16 – 17	17 – 18	18 – 19	19 – 20	20 – 21	21 – 22
1	Decision mak­ing timescales
2	Pro­cessing agreements
3	Early col­lab­or­a­tion
4	Leg­al agreements
5	Enforce­ment charter
6	Con­tinu­ous improvement
7	Loc­al devel­op­ment plan
8	Devel­op­ment plan scheme
9 & 10	LDP Early Engagement	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
11	Reg­u­lar and pro­por­tion­ate advice to sup­port applications
12	Cor­por­ate work­ing across services
13	Shar­ing good prac­tice, skills and knowledge
14	Stalled sites/​legacy cases
15	Developer con­tri­bu­tions

Over­all Mark­ings (total num­bers for red, amber and green) | 2013 – 14 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2014 – 15 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 2015 – 16 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 2016 – 17 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 2017 – 18 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 2018 – 19 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 2019 – 20 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 2020 – 21 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 2021 – 22 | 0 | 0 | 13

Decision Mak­ing Times­cales (weeks) | | 13 – 14 | 14 – 15 | 15 – 16 | 16 – 17 | 17 – 18 | 18 – 19 | 19 – 20 | 20 – 21 | 21 – 22 | 2021 – 22 Scot­tish Aver­age —-| — -| — -| — -| — -| — -| — -| — -| — -| — -| — - | Major Devel­op­ment | 251.0 | 130.9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 44.6 | Loc­al (Non-House­hold­er) Devel­op­ment | 19.4 | 22.2 | 14.6 | 70.8 | 13.1 | 18.6 | 16.0 | 13.0 | 6.8 | 13.5 | House­hold­er Devel­op­ment | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 8.7

Scot­tish Min­is­ters, spe­cial advisers and the Per­man­ent Sec­ret­ary are covered by the terms of the Lob­by­ing (Scot­land) Act 2016. See www.lobbying.scot

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