Item6Appendix3Objection20200236DETand20200241LBC

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 6 Appendix 3 26/02/2021

AGENDA ITEM 6

APPENDIX 3

2020/0236/DET & 2020/0241/LBC

REP­RES­ENT­A­TIONS OBJECTION

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2020/0236/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2020/0236/DET Address: Stead­ing Bal­avil Mains Farm­house Kin­gussie Pro­pos­al: Con­ver­sion of farm build­ings to vis­it­or facil­it­ies and com­mer­cial use, exten­sions, form­a­tion of café and park­ing Case Officer: Stephanie Wade

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Mr Dav­id Fal­lows Address: Woodlea Main Street Newtonmore

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Mem­ber of Pub­lic Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:I object to this applic­a­tion on the basis of clear and self-evid­ent risk of eco­nom­ic dis­place­ment. In the pre­vi­ous applic­a­tion for this devel­op­ment, it was claimed that there was no evid­ence of likely dis­place­ment, but I would con­tend that this was fun­da­ment­ally incor­rect. There was ample evid­ence of the effect of dis­place­ment in New­ton­more with the open­ing up of cater­ing facil­it­ies at Ralia caus­ing a drop in trade levels in the vil­lage which I per­son­ally exper­i­enced. Fur­ther, the devel­op­ment at House of Bru­ar also caused indis­put­able dis­place­ment from the vil­lage of Blair Atholl. This applic­a­tion will res­ult in café facil­it­ies (and oth­er poten­tial retail dis­place­ment) both imme­di­ately south of the New­ton­more-Kin­gussie loop and imme­di­ately north of it — a pin­cer move­ment that can only add fur­ther pres­sures to the future of both vil­lages. Developers can, of course, protest that they ​‘wish to work with loc­al busi­nesses’ but this is a hol­low state­ment in that the out­come, even if delivered, is far more likely to be in the sin­gu­lar than the plur­al and any event, is com­pletely unen­force­able by way of con­di­tion. Hav­ing had the oppor­tun­ity once to go ahead with this devel­op­ment, I sub­mit that the applic­ants have had their chance, and in the worsen­ing eco­nom­ic situ­ation facing the Badenoch vil­lages, anoth­er oppor­tun­ity to cause fur­ther dam­age can be reas­on­ably denied.