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Appendix 2

2024/0297/DET

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 6 Appendix 2 24/01/2025

Com­munity coun­cil comments

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Emma Green­lees

From: NVCC nvccsec@​gmail.​com Sent: 24 Novem­ber 2024 17:12 To: Plan­ning Sub­ject: 2024/0297/DET Cat­egor­ies: Con­sulta­tion Response

Dear sirs

NVCC recog­nise that the afford­able hous­ing part­ner that Tulloch’s were ori­gin­ally work­ing with on the devel­op­ment are no longer involved and that there are now new afford­able hous­ing partners.

While NVCC recog­nises that this is largely out­side Tulloch’s con­trol, NVCC is con­cerned that the remix of hous­ing — to one con­sist­ent type of 3‑bed house — is not actu­ally what the com­munity needs for afford­able homes. The main need for afford­able homes is con­sidered to be young loc­al fam­il­ies, work­ing in the area, who need accom­mod­a­tion, and in that regard 2‑bed hous­ing is much more where the com­munity coun­cil would have thought the demand lies.

An added con­cern is that with the involve­ment now of High­land Coun­cil, it is seen as a solu­tion to a demand which arises from people who are not actu­ally res­id­ent with Badenoch, but rather from the wider High­land Coun­cil area, or even bey­ond. NVCC has always sup­por­ted the afford­able hous­ing aspect of the devel­op­ment as there has long been a lack of such hous­ing in the area for loc­al families.

It is also thought that the revised plan is, to put it bluntly, bor­ing. It does not enhance the site in the way that the pre­vi­ous mix of hous­ing did, with dif­fer­ing styles and roof heights and hous­ing mod­els. Now it looks like an estate — or group of hous­ing — of old-style social hous­ing. Surely they can do bet­ter than what is proposed.

So while under­stand­ing that new part­ners are involved, we would object to the pro­posed mix of hous­ing and the styles adop­ted as not being suited to the com­munity in which they are being built, where the need is for afford­able hous­ing for young loc­ally-employed fam­il­ies and not lar­ger, and pre­sum­ably more expens­ive to rent, 3‑bed housing.

Regards

Gra­ham

— Gra­ham Fraser Sec­ret­ary, New­ton­more & Vicin­ity Com­munity Council

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