Item6Appendix3AObjections20210166DETBraemarHousing

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 6 Appendix 3a 24/06/2022

AGENDA ITEM 6

APPENDIX 3a

2021/0166/DET

PUB­LIC REP­RES­ENT­A­TIONS- OBJECTION

2021/0166/DET Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion APP/2021/1044

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: APP/2021/1044 Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Jan Regulski

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Dr Peter Andrews Address: The Home, Broom­bank Ter­race, Brae­mar, Aber­deen­shire AB35 5YX

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Mem­ber of Pub­lic Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Com­ment: Access to the site for con­struc­tion and sub­sequently emer­gency & ser­vice vehicles will require a new road that will res­ult in loss of some of an ancient forest.

This is not in line with ​“The Queen’s Green Can­opy” @qgcanopy

A unique, UK-wide tree plant­ing ini­ti­at­ive cre­ated to mark The Queen’s Plat­in­um Jubilee in 2022 (1 believe that the ​“Green Can­opy” pro­ject also will pro­tect ancient forests too).

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY UGH­DAR­RAS PAIRC NAISEANTA A MHON­AIDH RUAIDH

2021/0166/DET Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion APP/2021/1044

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: APP/2021/1044 Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Jan Regulski

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Dr Peter Andrews Address: 4 Broom­bank Ter­race Brae­mar AB35 5YX

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:My con­cern is the risk of flood­ing to prop­er­ties on Broom­bank Ter­race, Brae­mar. My recent assess­ment of ground con­di­tions shows: Tri­al pit 4 BB Ter­race AB35 5YX — 1.1m deep. 0.4m dark brown sandy ORGAN­IC SILT with angu­lar rock frag­ments, over 0.7m medi­um dense grey grav­elly sand with angu­lar and sub- roun­ded cobbles to an undefined depth. Ground­wa­ter was encountered at 1.0m below EGL. Tri­al pit 2 AB35 5YX — 1.0m deep. 0.4m dark brown sandy ORGAN­IC SILT with angu­lar rock frag­ments, over 0.6m medi­um dense grey grav­elly sand with angu­lar and sub-roun­ded cobbles to an undefined depth. The mater­i­als encountered would be typ­ic­al of river ter­race depos­its and although super­fi­cial depos­its were not mapped for the area the site is loc­ated approx­im­ately 400m from the River Dee to the west and 250m from the Clu­ine Water to the east, fur­ther to this the site is loc­ated with­in a wide val­ley, which would sug­gest that the mater­i­al encountered may be alluvial.

These con­di­tions provide for little sur­face water soak away. Any fur­ther reduc­tion in sur­face water drain­age, such as hous­ing foot­print, tar­mac roads and loss of trees will increase the volume of water run off onto Broom­bank Ter­race and risk flood­ing. No. 5 is already at very high risk of flood­ing (if not sub­ject to flood­ing). CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY UGH­DAR­RAS PAIRC NAIS­LANTA A MHON­AIDH RUAIDH

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0166/DET Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Stephanie Wade

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Jen­nifer Green­shields Address: Ivy Cot­tage, Cluniebank Road, Brae­mar, Aber­deen­shire AB35 5ZP

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:8. The sig­ni­fic­ant det­ri­ment­al impact for those liv­ing adja­cent. To this point I agree with the con­cerns already raised by Lynne Chalk, Alan McKay, Duncan McCal­lum, Joanne Sherid­an and Peter Andrews in their objections.

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0166/DET Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Stephanie Wade

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Jen­nifer Green­shields Address: Ivy Cot­tage, Cluniebank Road, Brae­mar, Aber­deen­shire AB35 5ZP

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:7. For trans­par­ency, it would have been use­ful to see a list of all the feed­back sub­mit­ted at the Com­munity Con­sulta­tion in St Margaret’s, and how any con­cerns raised have been addressed, or not as the case may be.

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0166/DET Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Stephanie Wade

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Jen­nifer Green­shields Address: Ivy Cot­tage, Cluniebank Road, Brae­mar, Aber­deen­shire AB35 5ZP

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:6. The design of the homes is not in keep­ing with the vil­lage (it looks like pre­fab hous­ing on a mil­it­ary base) and sets a dan­ger­ous pre­ced­ent for future plan­ning applic­a­tions. It is increas­ingly com­mon for plan­ning applic­a­tions to be sup­por­ted by an Architect’s Design State­ment which seems to involve tak­ing pho­tos of any build­ing in the loc­al area which are a sim­il­ar shape or built with sim­il­ar mater­i­als and put­ting them for­ward as pre­ced­ents in the loc­al area. If this devel­op­ment is approved in its cur­rent design it is set­ting the bar very low for future plan­ning applications.

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0166/DET Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Stephanie Wade

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Jen­nifer Green­shields Address: Ivy Cot­tage, Cluniebank Road, Brae­mar, Aber­deen­shire AB35 5ZP

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:5. The land pro­posed for the hous­ing devel­op­ment and new road far exceeds the area marked for devel­op­ment in the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan.

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0166/DET Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Stephanie Wade

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Jen­nifer Green­shields Address: Ivy Cot­tage, Cluniebank Road, Brae­mar, Aber­deen­shire AB35 5ZP

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:4.The plan­ning applic­a­tion has mater­i­al error: (a)The ​“Applic­ant” is stated as Brae­mar Com­munity Coun­cil as the own­er of the land. The Applic­ant and own­er of the land should be Brae­mar Com­munity Lim­ited. (b)It should be declared on the Applic­a­tion Form the con­nec­tion that the Chair of Brae­mar Com­munity Limited’s wife is the Aber­deen­shire Coun­cil­lor for the area and a mem­ber of the Board of Cairngorms Nation­al Park (and as recently as last year the Deputy Con­ven­or of the Board) as it could reas­on­ably be expec­ted that she could have con­sid­er­able sway with the decision makers even if she does not make the decision on the applic­a­tion her­self. She pos­ted a video on the Brae­mar Com­munity Face­book Page on 11 May 2021 in which she presen­ted this pro­ject as her idea and that it has been delivered as a joint pro­ject between her­self, Brae­mar Com­munity Lim­ited, Cairngorms Nation­al Park and Aber­deen­shire Coun­cil. If there is noth­ing to hide, why not make it clear the con­nec­ted and involved parties on the form­al Applic­a­tion? — Face­book does not suf­fice. ©The Chair of Brae­mar Com­munity Lim­ited wrote in the vil­lage news­pa­per, the Brae­mar Buz­zard, June 2021 edi­tion (a copy of which was pos­ted in my let­ter box on 11^th June 2021), that the Pub­lic com­ment­ing for the applic­a­tion closed on 6^th June 2021, without any men­tion that the pub­lic could still com­ment on the applic­a­tion to the Cairngorms Nation­al Park until 28^th June 2021.

(d)To my know­ledge this mat­ter has nev­er been an agenda item for any pub­lic meet­ings of the Brae­mar Com­munity Coun­cil. By mak­ing itself the ​“Applic­ant”, mem­bers of the loc­al com­munity have been denied the oppor­tun­ity expec­ted with all plan­ning applic­a­tions to raise con­cerns to the Com­munity Coun­cil and to ask for the Com­munity Coun­cil to con­sider lob­by­ing on their col­lect­ive behalf. How can the Com­munity Coun­cil raise any issues with this applic­a­tion if it is the ​“Applic­ant”?

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0166/DET Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Stephanie Wade

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Jen­nifer Green­shields Address: Ivy Cot­tage, Cluniebank Road, Brae­mar, Aber­deen­shire AB35 5ZP

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:3. There is inad­equate access to the site where the 15 homes are pro­posed to be situ­ated. The first third of the land where the new road is pro­posed, as it leaves Cluniebank Road, is flooded sev­er­al times every year so would be rendered unus­able for sev­er­al peri­ods of time every year. It is also rumoured that the cost of the new road is not sup­port­able by the scale of the devel­op­ment, cre­at­ing doubt as to wheth­er this road would even be built if the devel­op­ment goes ahead. This would leave only the exist­ing farm track for access which is unsuit­able and unsafe for that volume of traffic and would have con­sid­er­able det­ri­ment­al impact for those liv­ing along the farm track, par­tic­u­larly the res­id­ents of the sheltered hous­ing flats adjacent.

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0166/DET Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Stephanie Wade

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Jen­nifer Green­shields Address: Ivy Cot­tage, Cluniebank Road, Brae­mar, Aber­deen­shire AB35 5ZP

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:2.Negative impact to the exist­ing wild­life of the ancient wood­land, both in the area to be cleared for the hous­ing devel­op­ment and new road, but also the knock-on impact to the rest of the wood­land. This is cur­rently a very pass­ive area of the vil­lage with the exist­ing build­ings only being used as workshops/​storage and for lamb­ing for a few weeks in the spring. A devel­op­ment of 15 homes would bring noise and light pol­lu­tion on an incom­par­able scale to that which cur­rently exists. For this reas­on it should be con­sidered irrel­ev­ant that the 15 homes would be on the foot­print of the ori­gin­al buildings.

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0166/DET Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Stephanie Wade

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Jen­nifer Green­shields Address: Ivy Cot­tage Cluniebank Road Braemar

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:I am sup­port­ive of build­ing afford­able homes for rent in Brae­mar, but I do not believe this is a suit­able loc­a­tion. Any of the oth­er sites marked for hous­ing devel­op­ment on the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan would be more suit­able than this site, for both the loc­al com­munity and those who would be liv­ing in the homes. This is a site with very lim­ited access, encroach­ing into ancient wood­land in the centre of the vil­lage, a unique jew­el for any vil­lage which should be pro­tec­ted to the fullest, not chipped away at. My objec­tions are:

1. The felling of mature trees, many of which have sig­ni­fic­ant life expect­ancy accord­ing to the Tree Survey.

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0166/DET Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Stephanie Wade

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Kar­en Noble Address: Jas­mine Cot­tage, 15 Cair­nad­rochit Brae­mar Braemar

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Mem­ber of Pub­lic Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:Whilst under­stand­ing the need for afford­able hous­ing for rent in Brae­mar and applaud­ing our loc­al com­munity in try­ing to rec­ti­fy this, I ques­tion the suit­ab­il­ity of the pro­posed site on the grounds of:-

Destruc­tion of wood­land and nat­ur­al habitat

Dis­rup­tion to wild­life — espe­cially red squirrels

Increased traffic, noise and light pollution

Impact on neigh­bour­ing prop­er­ties and business

Pro­posed access route floods sev­er­al times a year

Pro­posed hous­ing not sym­path­et­ic to its surroundings

Height of pro­posed hous­ing giv­en that the major­ity of Brae­mar houses are 1 ¹⁄₂ storeys high

I under­stand that the plan­ning applic­a­tion makes ref­er­ence to the poten­tial for flood­ing and I believe there’s the pos­sib­il­ity that the devel­op­ment will have no pave­ments — instead the road/​pavement area will be con­struc­ted from the same mater­i­al which will be designed to allow bet­ter absorp­tion of excess water. If this is indeed the case (and I haven’t mis­un­der­stood the applic­a­tion) how will that work for fam­il­ies? Surely chil­dren won’t be expec­ted to be walk­ing in the same area as cars, deliv­ery vans, bin lor­ries etc?

There are many open spaces in Brae­mar that would surely lend them­selves bet­ter to an afford­able hous­ing devel­op­ment rather than this site which is enjoyed and appre­ci­ated by many in it’s cur­rent form.

2021/0166/DET From:Keith Phil­lips Sent:27 Jun 2021 11:47:17 +0100 To:Planning Subject:Application 2021/0166/DET Dear Stephanie,

I am writ­ing to you in rela­tion to the plan­ning applic­a­tion ref 2021/0166/DET, for the pro­posed erec­tion of 15 dwell­ing houses and asso­ci­ated infra­struc­ture at the site at Kin­drochit Court, Mar road, Brae­mar. We are at the con­tract stage of pur­chas­ing a prop­erty affected by this devel­op­ment, Somer­set Cot­tage, 25 Mar road, Brae­mar, and hope to close the pur­chase in the next couple of weeks. Our soli­cit­or (Colin Brem­ner of Bur­nett-Reid) has advised he will con­firm this if you so require. As the close for sub­mis­sions is the 28^th June, I felt it appro­pri­ate to write to you now, I hope this is acceptable.

Our comment/​objection is in rela­tion to access to the prop­erty, which is cur­rently via the unadop­ted track which runs through the pro­posed site. The track is used for access by approx­im­ately 5 houses. The plan­ning applic­a­tion shows lock­able bol­lards pre­vent­ing the use of this track as access for private vehicles. The oth­er end of the track to the North onto Mar road is cur­rently not useable due to the the steep angle onto the main road, mak­ing it impass­able in any vehicle oth­er than a 4×4 with high ground clear­ance. The report states that the track is used as a through route, but this is clearly not the case. The lane also exits onto Mar road on a very dan­ger­ous blind corner with no vis­ib­il­ity to the right, and faces the Gal­lery where there are usu­ally cars parked mak­ing the situ­ation worse. This is actu­ally high­lighted in the developers report, where they state in their assess­ment of the track ​“Vis­ib­il­ity dis­tances here mean that this junc­tion is not safe and there­fore not feasible”.

The track has been used for the houses for well over 20 years, so I would expect that pre­script­ive access rights would apply, to allow con­tin­ued access to the prop­er­ties. This is also the primary route used by the post­man, deliv­er­ies, doc­tors, emer­gency vehicles etc, so lock­able bol­lards would also restrict access for these import­ant utilities.

I would be happy to provide more inform­a­tion and pho­to­graphs to illus­trate if you feel this would be help­ful in your assess­ment. Thank you for your con­sid­er­a­tion on this matter.

Yours sin­cerely, Keith Phillips

2021/0166/DET From:Keith Phil­lips Sent:6 Aug 2021 11:47:27 +0100 To:Planning Subject:Planning applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET Dear sir/​madam,

I would like to make a sub­mis­sion in rela­tion to the plan­ning applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET in rela­tion to the pro­posed Erec­tion of 15 dwell­ing houses and asso­ci­ated infra­struc­ture at the site at Kin­drochit Court Mar road Brae­mar Aberdeenshire.

My concern/​objection con­tin­ues to be the issue of access to the prop­er­ties (approx­im­ately 5) which use the old farm track from the south/​east for access. This is the primary access route to these prop­er­ties, and has been for over 20 years as the oth­er end of the track onto Mar road is unus­able as it is too steep where it joins the main road, the exit is on a dan­ger­ous blind bend, and the track is too steep and is not access­ible espe­cially in winter due to the gradi­ent where the track meets the road. This was clearly high­lighted in the sur­vey by the architects/​developers of the pro­posed new hous­ing devel­op­ment. The road route maps have been updated and super­seded sev­er­al times, some show­ing lock­able bol­lards on the track which would block access for the prop­er­ties. The prop­er­ties pre­sum­ably have pre­script­ive rights of access due to the length of time they have been using this track. This issue needs to be clearly resolved before any approv­al for the new development.

Fur­ther to this, and assum­ing that access will con­tin­ue to be avail­able after the new hous­ing devel­op­ment com­ple­tion, the issue of access dur­ing the con­struc­tion of the new devel­op­ment (estim­ated at one year dur­a­tion), needs to be addressed, as if the track is not avail­able dur­ing this peri­od it will effect­ively leave the prop­er­ties on the track ​“land locked”, and essen­tial ser­vices such as emer­gency vehicles, doc­tors, deliv­ery vans, post deliv­ery, etc will not be able to access the prop­er­ties, and own­ers will not be able to access their prop­er­ties in their vehicles.

Also, the latest sub­mis­sion (loc­a­tion plan dated July 28^th) shows that the new devel­op­ment has access rights to the old track to the north of the devel­op­ment. The track was used many years ago for access to the old farm, but is not suit­able as an access route to a new 15 dwell­ing devel­op­ment and the asso­ci­ated traffic it will gen­er­ate. It is a nar­row unadop­ted single track with no passing place, and would be dan­ger­ous if cars trav­el­ling in oppos­ite dir­ec­tions met, as one would poten­tially have to reverse onto the main road. Again, this is clearly high­lighted in the sur­vey by the architects/​developers of the pro­posed new hous­ing devel­op­ment. It is not clear wheth­er this is for ped­es­tri­an or vehicu­lar access. If this is imply­ing vehicle access, I can­not under­stand how it has access rights when the devel­op­ment has not been built and the track has been deemed unus­able for sev­er­al reas­ons by the developers in their assess­ment of access roads. Thank you.

Yours sin­cerely, Keith Phillips

From:Keith Phil­lips Sent:Mon, 13 Dec 2021 13:58:48 +0000 To:Planning Subject:Application 2021/0166/DET Dear Sir/​madam,

I am writ­ing in rela­tion to plan­ning applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET, the pro­posed erec­tion of 15 dwell­ing houses and asso­ci­ated infra­struc­ture on the site at Kin­drochit court, Mar road, Brae­mar, Aberdeenshire.

After review­ing the recent updated pro­pos­als, I must once again raise an objec­tion on the grounds that it blocks the access route to our home, Somer­set Cot­tage, 25 Mar Road, Brae­mar. We are very con­cerned and frus­trated that the issue of access to our home has not been con­sidered by the developers. Des­pite my pre­vi­ous rep­res­ent­a­tions, the updated plan con­tin­ues to show ​“lock­able bol­lards” on the track which we use to access our prop­erty. It also shows what I believe is a fence across the track (purple line) which would fur­ther pre­vent access. The track lead­ing to the north of our prop­erty is not usable due to the gradi­ent where it meets Mar road, and vehicles ground out. It is very steep and is impass­ible in winter snow con­di­tions. It also has zero vis­ib­il­ity to the right for oncom­ing vehicles and is dan­ger­ous. I have included pho­to­graphs to illus­trate this in my pre­vi­ous cor­res­pond­ence. There­fore, if this pro­pos­al goes ahead in its cur­rent form, we will have no vehicu­lar access to our home.

The plan states that ​“Lock­able bol­lards installed to pre­vent access for private vehicles. In the event of an emer­gency and flood­ing of the new access road, emer­gency ser­vices can unlock these or use their vehicle to ram theses bol­lards to gain access to the site”. To reit­er­ate what I have said in my pre­vi­ous sub­mis­sions. This will block our access route which has been used for over 20 years, and which we believe we have pre­script­ive rights of access over. This would force us to use the new road for access through the pro­posed devel­op­ment, there­fore pre­vent­ing us from dir­ect access to the vil­lage, and mak­ing us sus­cept­ible to any flood­ing issues with the new road. We would then be met with what appears to be fen­cing across the lane at our prop­erty fur­ther pre­vent­ing access. This will also affect sev­er­al oth­er prop­er­ties along the track. The track links our home to the vil­lage, which is espe­cially import­ant in winter in the event of snow and adverse weath­er con­di­tions. Also, it does not address the issue of access for the res­id­ents of the pro­posed new devel­op­ment in the event that the new road floods. Are they to park in the vil­lage and walk to their homes? Fur­ther­more I would ques­tion the real­ity of a doc­tor or ambu­lance ​“ram­ming’ a bol­lard in their vehicle to gain access. Thank you for con­sid­er­ing my con­cerns with this pro­pos­al. Yours sin­cerely, Keith Phillips

2021/0166/DET Type: Objection

Title: Pro­posed Hous­ing blocks and new road out­with Site H3

Please refer to doc­u­ments CNPA-LDP, GENERAL_LANDSCAPE_LAYOUT-9437122.pdf, ROAD_ROUTE- 9437170.pdf

Pro­posed blocks lie out­with the iden­ti­fied bound­ary of site H3 as set out in the CNPA LDP (to the North West and South West of H3). The pro­posed new road route lies out­with site H3 entirely (to the South of H3). Both pro­pos­als are with­in Brae­mar Con­ser­va­tion Area.

Pro­posed hous­ing and pro­posed new road are not in line with CNPA Strategy for Future Devel­op­ment in terms of Con­ser­va­tion of Nat­ur­al Her­it­age, espe­cially con­cern­ing sec­tions 4.4 and 4.5 of CNPA LDP policies. Ancient wood­land, espe­cially in the heart of Brae­mar, should be pro­tec­ted. Dis­turb­ance to pro­tec­ted spe­cies and remov­al of wood­land cre­at­ing a break in their hab­it­at should be avoided.

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0166/DET Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Stephanie Wade

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Miss Cath­er­ine Muir­head Address: The Bunk­house, 15 Mar Road, Brae­mar, Aber­deen­shire AB35 5YL

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Com­ment: The CNPA exists to safe­guard and pro­mote the her­it­age, flora and fauna whilst sup­port­ing loc­al devel­op­ments in the vil­lage and we trust that you will ensure your power is used sym­path­et­ic­ally to lessen as much as pos­sible any neg­at­ive impact on the envir­on­ment, res­id­ents, and wild­life (pro­tec­ted spe­cies) in so doing.

Have you, Stephanie Wade, been on site to observe the area EP3 (LDP) from every angle? If mot, why not?

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0166/DET Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Stephanie Wade

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Miss Cath­er­ine Muir­head Address: The Bunk­house, 15 Mar Road, Brae­mar, Aber­deen­shire AB35 5YL

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:Application detail clarification.

I am unclear about the named applic­ant as detailed on the noti­fic­a­tion of plan­ning Applic­a­tion for the devel­op­ment on neigh­bour­ing land. Dated 17^th May 2021. The applic­ant is clearly stated as Brae­mar Com­munity Coun­cil, but my under­stand­ing is that Brae­mar Com­munity Ltd is the body behind this pro­ject. I think some cla­ri­fic­a­tion is needed here. Hous­ing pro­vi­sion should be gov­erned by proven loc­al needs and not be seen as a means of expand­ing the vil­lage just for the sake of it.

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0166/DET Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Stephanie Wade

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Miss Cath­er­ine Muir­head Address: The Bunk­house, 15 Mar Road, Brae­mar, Aber­deen­shire AB35 5YL

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:Road Access I believe that secured bol­lards are to be in place on the farm track lead­ing from The Mews area to the pro­posed hous­ing devel­op­ment, my ques­tion is. Who will have the respons­ib­il­ity of unlock­ing and remov­ing said bol­lards dur­ing times of emer­gency?, which could be in the early hours of the morn­ing and, per­haps, more import­antly the re-instat­ing and relock­ing of the bol­lards post emer­gency? As poin­ted out before by those of us who live on the farm track, it is both unsuit­able and unsafe for sus­tained, increased traffic flow due to the lack of a foot­path for ped­es­tri­ans. As the farm track is used daily by chil­dren walk­ing to the primary school, eld­erly res­id­ents of the sheltered hous­ing out for a stroll and vil­la­gers walk­ing their dogs, tak­ing short­cuts from the west­ern edge of the vil­lage, increased traffic over the shortest peri­od must be kept to the bear min­im­um. Who will guar­an­tee this?

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0166/DET Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Stephanie Wade

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Miss Cath­er­ine Muir­head Address: 15 Mar Road BRAEMAR

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:2021/0166/DET | Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture | Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire OBJEC­TION I do not under­stand how the CNPA policies can alter and change so rad­ic­ally in such a short time. In the 2007 ​“depos­it loc­al plan” by CNP, they state and I quote.”The Mar Estate Farm Wood­land is PRO­TEC­TED as an import­ant recre­ation­al and amen­ity resourse”. How­ever with­in 12 Months, in 2008, full plan­ning per­mis­sion was gran­ted for 11 dwell­ings on this very land. Quite an about turn. Now this developer is push­ing for 15 dwell­ings in such a unique and import­ant piece of land in the centre of our vil­lage, allegedly for the bene­fit of the com­munity as a whole……. Cer­tainly Not the case for those of us who live and have our live­li­hoods on the peri­phery. The noise light pol­lu­tion, the increased traffic and the destruc­tion of the scen­ic value afforded due to the topo­graphy of the ancient wood­land, in my view makes this site totally unsuit­able for build­ing this many houses.

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0166/DET Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Stephanie Wade

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Mr Alan McKay Address: Clunie Lodge, Cluniebank Road, Brae­mar, Aber­deen­shire AB35 5ZP

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:Title: Flu­vi­al Flood Risk on Pro­posed New Road route The pro­posed new access road site floods due to Flu­vi­al Flood­ing from Clunie Water more often than the plan­ning doc­u­ment­a­tion sug­gests. It already hap­pens sev­er­al times per year and with Cli­mate Change is only likely to increase in fre­quency. This has obvi­ous implic­a­tions for access, includ­ing Emer­gency Ser­vices and Waste Col­lec­tion etc.

I live at Clunie Lodge and often wit­ness Clunie Water flow­ing across Cluniebank Road at pro­posed site. The land where the pro­posed road would join Cluniebank Road is lower than Cluniebank Road — it gets a lot of the flood water.

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0166/DET Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Stephanie Wade

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Mr Alan McKay Address: Clunie Lodge, Cluniebank Road, Brae­mar, Aber­deen­shire AB35 5ZP

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:Title: Traffic Gen­er­a­tion and noise/​disturbance from same. The traffic trav­el­ling along the pro­posed new road (and the increase in traffic along the exist­ing single tracked Cluniebank Road from where the vehicles must drive to reach the pro­posed new road) will cause noise and dis­turb­ance to Clunie Lodge and secluded woodland.

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0166/DET Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Stephanie Wade

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Mr Alan McKay Address: Clunie Lodge, Cluniebank Road, Brae­mar, Aber­deen­shire AB35 5ZP

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:Title: Pro­posed Road and Street­lights — Visu­al Amen­ity, Clunie Lodge.

The new road along with new road light­ing have a sig­ni­fic­ant effect on the sur­round­ings at Clunie Lodge (new road runs par­al­lel metres away from South West bound­ary). It will dimin­ish the unique sense of nature that the wood­land enjoys and cause a sig­ni­fic­ant amount of light pollution.

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0166/DET Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Stephanie Wade

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Mr Alan McKay Address: Clunie Lodge, Cluniebank Road, Brae­mar, Aber­deen­shire AB35 5ZP

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:Title: Loss of Pri­vacy at Clunie Lodge by pro­posed hous­ing Over­look­ing property.

The pro­posed hous­ing will over­look Clunie Lodge caus­ing loss of pri­vacy. Please refer to doc­u­ments CONTEXT_ELEVATIONS_SECTIONS-9437139.pdf and SITE_­PLAN- EXISTING_TOPO-9437162.pdf The pro­posed hous­ing over­looks Clunie Lodge with a sig­ni­fic­ant height dif­fer­ence between land at Clunie Lodge and pro­posed hous­ing site. The pro­posed hous­ing site is high­er than land at Clunie Lodge before pro­posed build­ing heights are even taken into consideration.

For example ground level ​‘South Facing Bal­conies’ on pro­posed Block C (facing Clunie Lodge House and over­look­ing chalet) are at an elev­a­tion of approx 345m (ridge height of Block C is approx 355m). With­in Clunie Lodge land, elev­a­tions start at 340m (the elev­a­tion of which con­sti­tutes ground level for Chalet at Clunie Lodge).

All win­dows and bal­conies of pro­posed hous­ing (Block C) over­look Clunie Lodge, it’s win­dows, rear garden and chalet.

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0166/DET Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Stephanie Wade

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Mr Alan McKay Address: Clunie Lodge Cluniebank Road Brae­mar / Aberdeenshire

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:Title: Remov­al of Mature Wood­land for New Road and Flat­ted Units/​Dwelling Units Remov­al of wood­land in the heart of Brae­mar is not with­in the spir­it of con­ser­va­tion of nat­ur­al her­it­age. There are many mature spe­ci­mens with 40+ years of con­tri­bu­tion left of vary­ing spe­cies includ­ing Nor­way Spruce and Beech trees with­in the area being cleared. These trees are known to be the homes and for­aging sites for pro­tec­ted species.

Not­able trees from tree sur­vey BS5837_DATA_SCHEDULE_MAR_ESTATE_FARM-9437110.pdf are:

7815: Cat­egory B Beech Tree with 40+ years con­tri­bu­tion left — only one of a hand­ful of Beech trees with­in woodland.

7812÷13÷16: Cat­egory B Nor­way Spruces with 40+ years con­tri­bu­tion left.

7843: As above also noted to have a lot of squir­rel activ­ity (I live next to this wood­land and can con­firm Red Squir­rels liv­ing and feed­ing on these trees all year round).

7845 to 7851, ⁷⁸⁸⁴⁄₈₅, 7898: More mature Nor­way Spruce with 40+ years con­tri­bu­tion left.

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0166/DET Address: Site At Kin­drochit Court Mar Road Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of 15 Dwell­ing­houses and Asso­ci­ated Infra­struc­ture Case Officer: Stephanie Wade

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Mr Alan McKay Address: Clunie Lodge, Cluniebank Road, Brae­mar, Aber­deen­shire AB35 5ZP

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Neigh­bour Stance: Cus­tom­er made com­ments neither object­ing to or sup­port­ing the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:Title: Com­munity Com­post­ing Area

Please refer to doc­u­ment BLOCK­_­PLAN-943172 Can you cla­ri­fy the use of the com­mun­al com­post­ing area. Will there be con­trols in place for what is put into com­post­ing area, who can add mater­i­al and how and when com­pos­ted mater­i­al will be removed.

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0166/DET

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