Item6Appendix3CommunityCouncil20200097DET

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 6 Appendix 3 12/06/2020

AGENDA ITEM 6

APPENDIX 3

2020/0097/DET

COM­MUNITY COUN­CIL COMMENTS

John Gri­er­son

From:John Gri­er­son Sent:4 May 2020 12:32:23 +0100 To:Dot Har­ris Subject:Re: Aviemore Com­munity Coun­cil Con­sulta­tion Request for Applic­a­tion 2020/0097/DET

Hi Dot,

Please excuse the delay in reply­ing to your email. Aviemore and Vicin­ity Com­munity Coun­cil wish to respond. Our next meet­ing is on 13^th May and we will respond as soon as pos­sible after that. Until then our ori­gin­al objec­tion still stands.

Stay Safe, John Grierson

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 11:46 AM Dot Har­ris DotHarris@​cairngorms.​co.​uk wrote: Please find attached a form­al request for con­sulta­tion on the above application.

Details related to this applic­a­tion can be found online here http://​www​.eplan​ningcnpa​.co​.uk/​o​n​l​i​n​e​-​a​p​p​l​i​c​a​t​i​o​n​s​/​#​s​e​a​r​c​h​A​p​p​l​i​c​a​tions

The Case Officer for this applic­a­tion is Rob­bie Cal­vert. They can be con­tac­ted by email on robbiecalvert@​cairngorms.​co.​uk or dir­ect by tele­phone on 01479 780409.

Please reply with your com­ments dir­ect to planning@​cairngorms.​co.​uk and cc the Case Officer.

Please do con­tact us if any fur­ther inform­a­tion is required.

Regards,

Dot Har­ris

Plan­ning Sup­port Officer

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Authority

14 The Square

Grant­own-on-Spey

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aviemore & vicin­ity com­munity coun­cil ​“Stand fast, Craigellachie”

Tel. No. ​‘Colon­say’ 12 Mor­lich Place, Aviemore, Inverness-shire. PH22 1TH

Email. avccchairman@​gmail.​com 15^th May 2020

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity 14 The Square Grant­own on Spey Scot­land PH26 3HG

Dear Sir,

Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 20/0097/DET — Install­a­tion of car park bar­ri­ers, Cairngorm Moun­tain, Glen­more, Aviemore, PH22 1RB

I refer to the above applic­a­tion and must inform you that Aviemore and Vicin­ity Com­munity Coun­cil main­tains its objec­tion to the applic­a­tion for the fol­low­ing reasons;

1. The Com­munity Coun­cil is not opposed to devel­op­ment at Cairngorm but wants to be sure that it is a well-struc­tured, care­fully planned, and sus­tain­able devel­op­ment which sat­is­fies all the Aims of the Park. The Com­munity Coun­cil sub­mits that this applic­a­tion is lack­ing in information.
2. The ​‘Over­view Sup­port Plan­ning State­ment’ says that ​‘cov­er­ing let­ters for each of these applic­a­tions will con­tain addi­tion­al inform­a­tion spe­cif­ic to the indi­vidu­al applic­a­tion’. The ​‘Applic­a­tion Cov­er Let­ter’ provided does not give any more inform­a­tion on what is proposed.
3. The Com­munity Coun­cil had to request a copy of the ​‘Applic­a­tion Cov­er Let­ter’ as it was not on the Eplan­ning web­site. That let­ter should have been on the

Chair­man John Gri­er­son Sec­ret­ary Joe Kirby

Vic-chair­man Al Dar­gie Treas­urer Wilma Grierson

web­site. It is out­rageous that the Com­munity Coun­cil, a stat­utory con­sul­tee, should learn more about the applic­a­tion in the loc­al news­pa­per than is in the developer’s applic­a­tion. It is inform­a­tion that the developer should have included in their application.

1. This applic­a­tion is put­ting the cart before the horse. In the Cairngorm and Glen­more strategy agreed by the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Board on 30^th Septem­ber 2016, the part­ners agreed to devel­op and deliv­er mas­ter­plan for Cairngorm Moun­tain. To date there has been no mas­ter­plan pro­posed. In the ​‘Over­view Sup­port Plan­ning State­ment’, HIE states that over­sight provided by HIE and CMSL ensures that this short­er-term devel­op­ment pro­pos­al will not under­mine the more stra­tegic and medi­um-term plan­ning approach. The Com­munity Coun­cil has no con­fid­ence in this state­ment and cites ​‘Nat­ur­al Retreats’ as the reas­on for this lack of confidence.

In con­clu­sion;

Aviemore and Vicin­ity Com­munity Coun­cil objects to the applic­a­tion. The applic­a­tion does not con­tain neces­sary inform­a­tion regard­ing the reas­ons for the applic­a­tion. Cairngorm Moun­tain is of vital import­ance to the well­being of the Park and, what can only be described as slip­shod plan­ning applic­a­tions, does not help.

Yours faith­fully,

Chair­man

Chair­man John Gri­er­son Sec­ret­ary Joe Kirby

Vic-chair­man Al Dar­gie Treas­urer Wilma Grierson