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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 6 Appendix 2 10/03/2023

AGENDA ITEM 6

APPENDIX 2

2022/0358/DET

HAB­IT­ATS REG­U­LA­TIONS APPRAISAL

HAB­IT­ATS REG­U­LA­TIONS APPRAISAL

Plan­ning ref­er­ence and pro­pos­al inform­a­tion	2022/0358/DET Form­a­tion of road & SuDS basin
Appraised by	Kar­en Ald­ridge – Eco­logy Plan­ning Advice Officer
Date	13 Janu­ary 2023
Checked by	Tbc
Date	Tbc

INFORM­A­TION

European site details
Name of European site(s) poten­tially affected	1) River Spey SAC
Qual­i­fy­ing interest(s)
River Spey SAC	Otter
	Fresh­wa­ter pearl mussel
	Sea lamprey
	Atlantic sal­mon
Con­ser­va­tion object­ives for qual­i­fy­ing interests
River Spey SAC
Con­ser­va­tion Object­ive 2. To ensure that the integ­rity of the River Spey SAC is restored by meet­ing object­ives 2a, 2b, 2c for each qual­i­fy­ing fea­ture (and 2d for fresh­wa­ter pearl mussel):
2b. Restore the dis­tri­bu­tion of fresh­wa­ter pearl mus­sel through­out the site
2c. Restore the hab­it­ats sup­port­ing fresh­wa­ter pearl mus­sel with­in the site and avail­ab­il­ity of food
2d. Restore the dis­tri­bu­tion and viab­il­ity of fresh­wa­ter pearl mus­sel host spe­cies and their sup­port­ing habitats
2a. Restore the pop­u­la­tion of fresh­wa­ter pearl mus­sel as a viable com­pon­ent of the site
2b. Main­tain the dis­tri­bu­tion of sea lamprey through­out the site
2c. Main­tain the hab­it­ats sup­port­ing sea lamprey with­in the site and avail­ab­il­ity of food
2a. Main­tain the pop­u­la­tion of sea lamprey as a viable com­pon­ent of the site
2b. Restore the dis­tri­bu­tion of Atlantic sal­mon through­out the site
2c. Restore the hab­it­ats sup­port­ing Atlantic sal­mon with­in the site and avail­ab­il­ity of food
2a. Restore the pop­u­la­tion of Atlantic sal­mon, includ­ing range of genet­ic types, as a viable com­pon­ent of the site
2b. Main­tain the dis­tri­bu­tion of otter through­out the site

2c. Main­tain the hab­it­ats sup­port­ing otter with­in the site and avail­ab­il­ity of food

2a. Main­tain the pop­u­la­tion of otter as a viable com­pon­ent of the site

Con­ser­va­tion Object­ive I. To ensure that the qual­i­fy­ing fea­tures of the River Spey SAC are in favour­able con­di­tion and make an appro­pri­ate con­tri­bu­tion to achiev­ing favour­able con­ser­va­tion status

APPRAIS­AL

STAGE 1:
What is the plan or project?
Rel­ev­ant sum­mary details of pro­pos­al (includ­ing loc­a­tion, tim­ing, meth­ods, etc)	Con­struc­tion of an access road and SuDS pond (for sur­face water run­off). Ground clearance
includ­ing remov­al of exist­ing trees will be required to pre­pare the site. The River Spey SAC is
approx­im­ately 300 m south of the pro­posed site.
STAGE 2:
Is the plan or pro­ject dir­ectly con­nec­ted with or neces­sary for the man­age­ment of the European site for nature conservation?	No
STAGE 3:
Is the plan or pro­ject (either alone or in-com­bin­a­tion with oth­er plans or pro­jects) likely to have a sig­ni­fic­ant effect on the site(s)?
1) River Spey SAC
All qual­i­fy­ing fea­tures: No Likely Sig­ni­fic­ant Effect.
The River Spey SAC is approx­im­ately 300 m at the closest point of the pro­posed site loc­a­tion. There are no appar­ent nat­ur­al or man-made path­ways between the pro­posed devel­op­ment and the SAC (e.g. drain­age chan­nels or trib­u­tar­ies). Giv­en the dis­tance from the site and the details of the pro­posed devel­op­ment (e.g. infilt­ra­tion only SuDS pond), it is con­sidered unlikely that any pol­lu­tion (e.g sed­i­ment or fuels) from the site would reach the SAC and have any det­ri­ment­al impacts on the con­ser­va­tion object­ives of the River Spey SAC. Sim­il­arly due to the dis­tance and pos­i­tion of the pro­posed devel­op­ment, no dis­turb­ance is con­sidered for any otter which may be using the River Spey for rest­ing or foraging/​commuting.
No fur­ther apprais­al is con­sidered as all con­ser­va­tion object­ives are met.
STAGE 4:
Under­take an Appro­pri­ate Assess­ment of the implic­a­tions for the site(s) in view of the(ir) con­ser­va­tion objectives	N/A
STAGE 5:
Can it be ascer­tained that there will not be an adverse effect on site integrity?	N/A