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Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Item 6 Appendix 4a 10 Novem­ber 2023 Ugh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

Agenda item 6

Appendix 4a

2023/0267/DET

Rep­res­ent­a­tions Objections

Emma Green­lees

From: Sent: 12 July 2023 14:54 Cc: Emma Green­lees Sub­ject: Pro­posed Dis­til­lery SE of Spey Dam

I object to the pro­posed dis­til­lery on the fol­low­ing grounds — Site The site dir­ectly under the ancient Dun-da-Lamh hill fort is com­pletely inap­pro­pri­ate for indus­tri­al devel­op­ment par­tic­u­larly in a Nation­al Park. It is a beau­ti­ful rur­al agri­cul­tur­al area that is very pop­u­lar with walk­ers, cyc­lists and tour­ists. It is a junc­tion of the long dis­tance walk­ing and cycle routes through the Cor­rieyair­ack pass and East High­land Way. All future vis­it­ors and loc­als would have their exper­i­ence degraded by the visu­al impact and road traffic caused by this pro­ject. Roads All of roads around Lagoon are already inap­pro­pri­ate for the volume and size of vehicles that use them. This dis­til­lery would only exacer­bate this both with more large vehicles and work­ers com­mut­ing to work, fur­ther endan­ger­ing the loc­al pop­u­la­tion and vis­it­ors and caus­ing con­sid­er­able extra atmo­spher­ic pol­lu­tion at a time of great cli­mate change. There are exist­ing eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment sites much closer to the A9 and pop­u­la­tion centres that would avoid these neg­at­ive effects on Lag­gan. Water The Spey is already often at a low level and does not need fur­ther water removed from its catch­ment. In sum­mary — this pro­ject would have large neg­at­ive effects on the loc­al area and com­munity and is unlikely to provide any real benefits.

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From: To: Sub­ject: Plan­ning for pro­posed dis­til­lery. 23/02656/FUL Date: 06 July 2023 20:41:00

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I wish to object to the plan­ning applic­a­tion 23/​02656/​ful erec­tion of dis­til­lery, 3No ware­houses, access, park­ing, offices and bore­holes on the fol­low­ing grounds.

Pre­dom­in­antly the impact it will have on the cot­tages at Strath­mash­ie which are loc­ated adja­cent to the access road to the pro­posed devel­op­ment towhich we are long stand­ing residents.

Con­cerns are as fol­lows The increase in traffic that this will bring to our rur­al area. Con­struc­tion traffic first and fore­most, which could take a couple of years until fully oper­a­tion­al as stated in loc­al press, ie Strath­spey & Badenoch Her­ald July 12 2023. There­after staff vehicles, HGV vehicles — includ­ing grain delivery’s, draft dis­pos­al, cask delivery’s, cask export as well as refuse and oth­er gen­er­al delivery’s.

This site access road where it joins the A86 is a des­ig­nated pick up point for res­id­ents chil­dren for the school bus. There are cur­rently 4 chil­dren who wait here. There how­ever is no men­tion of this in plan­ning. This brings obvi­ous safety con­cerns with par­ents if HGVs and all oth­er site traffic turn­ing in. More so in winter months as this is an unlit area with no pave­ment and poor visibility.

The cur­rent access track is pop­u­lar with loc­al res­id­ents, chil­dren, dog walk­ers and cyc­lists from neigh­bour­ing Wolftrax centre — again safety con­cerns regard­ing site traffic Due to the nature of the road sur­face, dust pol­lu­tion can be a big prob­lem dur­ing dry peri­ods of weath­er, this can be exas­per­ated by speed of vehicles. As well loose stones fly­ing up due to the loose gravel con­struc­tion of road. This is pre­dom­in­antly to res­id­ents closest to the track and pedestrians.

Can we have cla­ri­fic­a­tion on wheth­er or not there is to be a vis­it­or centre? Again states in loc­al press that this pro­pos­al will attract vis­it­ors to the area. Con­trary to this at loc­al meet­ings we were informed there will be no vis­it­ors centre there­fore no vis­it­ors to the dis­til­lery, dis­pelling con­cerns of increased traffic.

Finally loc­al job oppor­tun­it­ies. At loc­al meet­ings with dis­til­lery man­age­ment loc­als were informed they would be mov­ing all exist­ing mem­bers of staff to new premises. Surely this will lim­it pro­posed job oppor­tun­it­ies for loc­al people?

From: To: Sub­ject: 23/02656/FUL Plan­ning applic­a­tion Date: 13 July 2023 08:45:40

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Dear Plan­ning Team, I would like to object to the above plan­ning applic­a­tion for the fol­low­ing reasons:

1. Increased traffic on the pro­posed access road — this track is a dirt track as is pop­u­lar with the chil­dren of Strath­mash­ie for rid­ing their bikes and with loc­al res­id­ents who walk their dogs here. Hav­ing had lor­ries for the Beauly-Denny line using this route, the res­id­ents here are very aware of how fast and how dan­ger­ous these can be, espe­cially dur­ing the winter months as the track is not designed to be grit­ted. This is also a school bus stop, an increase of traffic will only be det­ri­ment­al to any safety issues involved. There are many pets (espe­cially cats) on this street and this increase in traffic raises issues over their safety.

2. His­tor­ic­al. The site is going to not only be built on a sec­tion of Gen­er­al Wade’s road but accord­ing to the plans looks like it will also include St Kenneth’s church.

3. Trans­par­ency. At loc­al con­sultat­ive meet­ings job oppor­tun­it­ies and tour­ist num­bers were dis­cussed. We were informed that there would be no job oppor­tun­it­ies as they would bring their own staff, there­fore not bene­fit­ting the loc­al com­munity. It was also men­tioned that there would be no scope for tour­ists, how­ever the plan sug­gests a mar­ket­ing suite. At the meet­ing they also talked about build­ing a house for work­ers — this is not men­tioned on the plan­ning applic­a­tion. Thank you for your time.