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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 6 Appendix 2A 25/09/2020

AGENDA ITEM 6

APPENDIX 2A

2020/0119/DET

REP­RES­ENT­A­TIONS GENERAL

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 20/00521/APP Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 20/00521/APP Address: Land 440M West Of Grant Cot­tage Glen­liv­et Ballindal­loch Moray Pro­pos­al: Pro­posed new Tast­ing Lodge with asso­ci­ated bound­ary fence and access track at Case Officer: Craig Wilson

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Mr Sam Robin­son Address: Cairngorms Astro­nomy Group Road­side Cot­tage Tomnavoulin Ballindalloch

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Civic Group Stance: Cus­tom­er made com­ments neither object­ing to or sup­port­ing the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Affect­ing nat­ur­al envir­on­ment Comment:Planning Applic­a­tion 20/00521/APP This pro­pos­al lies with­in the newly accred­ited Tomin­toul and Glen­liv­et — Cairngorms Inter­na­tion­al Dark Sky Park. Both plan­ning author­it­ies (Moray Coun­cil and the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity) were part­ners to, and sup­por­ted the applic­a­tion to the Inter­na­tion­al Dark Skies Asso­ci­ation in July 2018. In that applic­a­tion they under­took to apply the Dark Sky Park Extern­al Light­ing Man­age­ment Plan when con­sid­er­ing new plan­ning applic­a­tions with­in the Dark Sky Park. Because the pro­posed Bothy is in the most sens­it­ive part of the Dark Sky Park (E0‑0 zone), the developer has taken steps to meet the require­ments of the Light­ing Man­age­ment Plan by ensur­ing that:

1. There is no extern­al light­ing. (LMP page 39, table 3.3).
2. Light spill at the bound­ary of the prop­erty will not exceed 0.05 lux (LMP Plan State­ment Num­ber 5, page 29). In order to pre­serve Dark Sky Park status with the Inter­na­tion­al Dark Skies Asso­ci­ation, plan­ning per­mis­sion should be con­tin­gent on the above two guidelines con­tinu­ing to be met in future. A copy of the Dark Sky Park Extern­al Light­ing Man­age­ment Plan can be viewed at https://​www​.cairngorms​dark​sky​park​.org/wp- content/uploads/2018/11/01_LMP_Composite_v4_43.pdf It is encour­aging to see that an enclosed night sky view­ing area for the adja­cent Dark Sky Dis­cov­ery Site has been included in the applic­a­tion. This should mit­ig­ate any nuis­ance that might have been caused to star gazers by vehicles passing the Dis­cov­ery Site on their way up to the Bothy after dark.

27 MAY 2020 01355 – 725845 MAN­ACOR DOUGL­OP­MENT J. E. Allan (Mr) 94 Frank­lin Place West­wood EAST KIL­BRIDE Glas­gow G75 8LS MAN­ACEMONT A BUILT­ING STANARA 23÷05÷202 APC 20/00325/APP+ 20/00557/PPP + 20/00555/AAP+ 20/00521/APP+20/00482 APP+20/ 00551/LBC+20/00062/APP+20/530 APP + 20/00442/ARC/420/00565/PG 20/00564/APP+20/00575/AMCA 20/00219/APPT20/00239/710 PLENS: ENSON THAT ON E.H SITS WHORT PLAN­NING PER­MIS­SIONN 75 GRAN­TED FULL PRO­TEC­TION IS CIVON TO WILALIFE FLOM & FAUNA INCLUD­ING MOLES NO DIS­TURB­ANCO OF NOS­T­ING BIRAS BUMB­LET HONOg­hors At RISK DO WHAT CAN BO DUNO 0

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Adam Dalton From:Adam Dalton Sent:8 May 2020 18:16:11 +0100 To:DC-General Enquir­ies Subject:Proposed ​“Tast­ing Bothy” in Tomin­toul and Glen­liv­et IDSP Good After­noon, I hope all is as well as is pos­sible in Scot­land in these unique and uncer­tain times. For those of you who are not famil­i­ar with me, my name is Adam Dalton and I am the Dark Sky Places Pro­gram Man­ager and the Inter­na­tion­al Dark Sky Asso­ci­ation. I am writ­ing to you as the issue of a pro­posed ​“tast­ing bothy” in the Tomin­toul and Glen­liv­et IDSP’s E0- zone has recently been brought to my atten­tion. From IDA’s per­spect­ive, the pro­posed pro­ject could present a poten­tial cause for con­cern regard­ing the Park’s IDSP des­ig­na­tion; IDA takes such mat­ters with the utmost of ser­i­ous­ness. After con­duct­ing a thor­ough review of the pro­posed designs [see attached] with respect to the IDSP’s adop­ted light­ing man­age­ment plan and Brit­ish Health and Safety stand­ards, I have found the fol­low­ing: With­in your IDSP’s Light­ing Policies on Page #25 of the Tomin­toul and Glen­liv­et applic­a­tion under sec­tion 5.1 it states:

1. Any new or exist­ing light­ing with­in the E0-0¹ Zone shown in the illus­tra­tion below should be ​“Fully Cut-Off” (Fully Shiel­ded (IDA term)) regard­less of light source lumen out­put. Note the use of the term ​“new”, which indic­ates that new light­ing may poten­tially be allowed in the E0 Zone. How­ever, on Appendix page #28 this table appears…. Table 2.2 Stray light con­trol recom­mend­a­tions in Typ­ic­al E0 Zone Night Time Envir­on­ment­al Zone Light Intru­sion (into win­dows) E ver­tic­al (lux) Sky Glow Upward Light Ratio Pre- % E0‑0 Post- Source Intens­ity I (cd) Pre- Post- 10pm 10pm 10pm 10pm Max­im­um Lumin­ance Point L (cd/​m²) Assess­ment Illu­min­ance Pre & Post ‑10pm Ev or Eh (lux) No New Extern­al Light­ing Units Per­mit­ted (exclud­ing the need for red filtered nav­ig­a­tion / mark­er lights) Essen­tially, it appears that new lights are allowed inso­far as they are red-filtered navigation/​marker lights. There­fore, based on your adop­ted plan, if the pro­posed out­door light­ing is red-filtered it would com­ply with the Park’s LMP. Oth­er­wise, it appears that via the adop­ted plan that light­ing does not allow any new light­ing in the E0 zone. How­ever, upon fur­ther invest­ig­a­tion of UK com­puls­ory Health and Safety Law I’ve found the fol­low­ing inform­a­tion: ​“In order to assist dis­pers­al to a place of safety, the extern­al areas in the imme­di­ate vicin­ity of final exits should be illu­min­ated in accord­ance with the illu­min­a­tion level for escape routes, giv­en in EN 1838 (BS 5266 – 7) of not less than 1 Lux”

Table 2.2 Stray light con­trol recom­mend­a­tions in Typ­ic­al E0 Zone Night Time Envir­on­ment­al Zone Sky Glow Upward Light Intru­sion (into win­dows) E ver­tic­al (lux) Light Ratio Pre- Post- Max­im­um Assess­ment Source Intens­ity I (cd) Post- Pre- 10pm 10pm Lumin­ance Point L (cd/​m²) Pre & Post ‑10pm Illu­min­ance Ev or Eh (lux) % 10pm 10pm E0‑0 No New Extern­al Light­ing Units Per­mit­ted (exclud­ing the need for red filtered nav­ig­a­tion / mark­er lights) E0-25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.25 E0-50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.10 There­fore, the adop­ted LMP for the E0 zone [see above] and the UK Com­puls­ory Health and Safety Laws appear to only be com­pat­ible if: light­ing that is installed is to be no more than the required 1 lux, is to red-filtered, and is only to be installed at the structure’s final exit. Finally, the pro­posed Bothy’s pos­i­tion above the Dark Sky Dis­cov­ery Site could allow for light tres­pass and impact if the building’s pan­or­amic win­dow faces the Site.

Pro­posed Tast­ing Lodge Blairtindy Car Park Giv­en the find­ings that if the cur­rently-pro­posed Bothy is approved the cer­ti­fied IDSP is poten­tially fail­ing to uphold its adop­ted light­ing man­age­ment plan I see three poten­tial options forward:

1. Build the Bothy in an altern­ate loc­a­tion, not with­in the IDSP’s des­ig­nated E0 zone.

2. Con­tin­ue to build the Bothy as planned, but change the exter­i­or light to be red and of no more than the required 1 lux. Fur­ther­more, take into account the impact that the struc­ture may have on the Park’s night­time envir­on­ment [i.e. con­sid­er­ing the ori­ent­a­tion of the win­dow and min­im­iz­ing impacts on the IDSP’s Dark Sky Dis­cov­ery Site by ori­ent­ing it away from the site and/​or util­iz­ing blinds at night].

3. Con­tin­ue to build the Bothy as planned with no alter­a­tions and poten­tially put the Park’s IDSP status at risk. I appre­ci­ate your under­stand­ing in this mat­ter and please let me know if you would like to meet regard­ing this issue. I am happy to con­duct a call or video con­fer­ence at whatever time/​date is most con­veni­ent for you. Thank you again and have a great after­noon. Best, Adam M. Dalton | Dark Sky Places Pro­gram Man­ager Inter­na­tion­al Dark-Sky Asso­ci­ation Dir­ect: +1 520−347−6364 adam@​darksky.​org

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