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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 7 26/06/2020

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

FOR DECISION

Title: ECO­NOM­IC GROWTH, OPEN SPACE, SPORT AND RECRE­ATION AND RESOURCES NON-STAT­UTORY GUIDANCE

Pre­pared by: Dan Har­ris, Plan­ning Man­ager Andrew Teece, Devel­op­ment Plan­ning Officer

Pur­pose of Report

1. To ask the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee to approve for con­sulta­tion Draft Eco­nom­ic Growth, Open Space, Sport and Recre­ation and Resources Non-Stat­utory Guid­ance to sup­port the next LDP.

Sum­mary

1. The Cairngorms Nation­al Park Pro­posed Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan was sub­mit­ted to Scot­tish Min­is­ters on Septem­ber 20^th 2019. The report­ers’ exam­in­a­tion of unre­solved rep­res­ent­a­tions is now under­way. At the end of the pro­cess, the Report­er will pub­lish an Exam­in­a­tion Report, which will set out a list of recom­men­ded modi­fic­a­tions to the Plan. Exam­in­a­tion reports are largely bind­ing on plan­ning author­it­ies, and the CNPA will have a three month peri­od to con­sider the Reporter’s recom­mend­a­tions and sub­mit the Pro­posed Plan as mod­i­fied to Scot­tish Min­is­ters. Fol­low­ing agree­ment with Scot­tish Min­is­ters, the Cairngorms Nation­al Park will adopt the LDP.

2. Sup­ple­ment­ary Guid­ance and non-stat­utory guid­ance will sup­port the LDP, though these do not need to under­go exam­in­a­tion. The CNPA has been pre­par­ing the guid­ance with the inten­tion that it be adop­ted along­side or shortly after the adop­tion of the LDP. It is inten­ded that the con­sulta­tion on these doc­u­ments be staggered to enable those with an interest time to fully con­sider the con­tents of the guidance.

3. It is there­fore pro­posed to pro­duce that the fol­low­ing non-stat­utory guid­ance be con­sul­ted on first: a) Eco­nom­ic Growth b) Open Space, Sport and Recre­ation c) Resources

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 7 26/06/2020

Recom­mend­a­tion

1. That the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee approve the pub­lic­a­tion of the fol­low­ing non-stat­utory guid­ance for a six week peri­od of pub­lic con­sulta­tion: a) Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment b) Open Space, Sport and Recre­ation c) Resources

Back­ground

1. The Cairngorms Nation­al Park Pro­posed Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan was sub­mit­ted to Scot­tish Min­is­ters on Septem­ber 20^th 2019. The report­ers’ exam­in­a­tion of unre­solved rep­res­ent­a­tions is now under­way. At the end of the pro­cess, the Report­er will pub­lish an Exam­in­a­tion Report, which will set out a list of recom­men­ded modi­fic­a­tions to the Plan. Exam­in­a­tion reports are largely bind­ing on plan­ning author­it­ies, and the CNPA will have a three month peri­od to con­sider the Reporter’s recom­mend­a­tions and sub­mit the Pro­posed Plan as mod­i­fied to Scot­tish Min­is­ters. Fol­low­ing agree­ment with Scot­tish Min­is­ters, the Cairngorms Nation­al Park will adopt the LDP.

2. Sup­ple­ment­ary Guid­ance and non-stat­utory guid­ance will sup­port the LDP, though these do not need to under­go exam­in­a­tion. The CNPA has been pre­par­ing the guid­ance with the inten­tion that it be adop­ted along­side or shortly after the adop­tion of the LDP. It should be noted that non-stat­utory guid­ance can­not intro­duce any addi­tion­al policy require­ments not cur­rently with­in the LDP. It should also be noted that policy require­ments with­in the LDP may change as a res­ult of the exam­in­a­tion, there­fore amend­ments may need to be made to the non-stat­utory guid­ance fol­low­ing the receipt of the Exam­in­a­tion Report. How­ever, it is not envis­aged that these changes will be sig­ni­fic­ant enough to require the non-sup­ple­ment­ary guid­ance to be re-con­sul­ted on.

3. It is inten­ded that the con­sulta­tion on the Sup­ple­ment­ary and non-stat­utory guid­ance be staggered to enable those with an interest time to fully con­sider their con­tents. This paper there­fore requests that the fol­low­ing four pieces of non-stat­utory guid­ance be approved for pub­lic con­sulta­tion: a) Eco­nom­ic Growth b) Open Space, Sport and Recre­ation c) Resources

4. It is pro­posed that the con­sulta­tion peri­od will last six weeks.

5. It is inten­ded that draft sup­ple­ment­ary guid­ance on hous­ing and developer oblig­a­tions and non-stat­utory guid­ance on design and place­mak­ing be brought to com­mit­tee in September.

6. A brief sum­mary of the guid­ance under con­sid­er­a­tion at this Plan­ning Com­mit­tee is provided below. Full cop­ies of the guid­ance is provided in the appendices.

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 7 26/06/2020

Eco­nom­ic Growth

1. This non-stat­utory guid­ance will sup­port Policy 2: Sup­port­ing Eco­nom­ic Growth of the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan, which aims to enable and encour­age appro­pri­ate eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment with­in the Nation­al Park that con­trib­utes to the sus­tain­able growth of its eco­nomy. The policy and its sup­port­ing guid­ance is cent­ral in sus­tain­ing the long term vital­ity and viab­il­ity of the Nation­al Park’s towns and com­munit­ies and retain­ing young people in this rur­al area.

2. The he non-stat­utory guid­ance provides addi­tion­al inform­a­tion on how the policy should be applied, includ­ing provid­ing fur­ther inform­a­tion on what assess­ments large devel­op­ments need to be sup­por­ted by.

Open Space, Sport and Recre­ation Non-Stat­utory Guidance

1. This non-stat­utory guid­ance will sup­port Policy 8: Open Space, Sport and Recre­ation of the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan which aims to ensure the needs of loc­al com­munit­ies and vis­it­ors for recre­ation­al space and facil­it­ies are accom­mod­ated, and exist­ing facil­it­ies pro­tec­ted. This includes inform­al and form­al recre­ation pro­vi­sion. The policy encour­ages the devel­op­ment of good qual­ity open spaces and recog­nises the envir­on­ment­al, social and health bene­fits they can gen­er­ate through green infra­struc­ture, biod­iversity and placemaking.

2. It is inten­ded that this guid­ance be used dur­ing the early pre­par­a­tion of plan­ning applic­a­tions, to identi­fy meas­ures to safe­guard and /​or enhance open space, sport & recre­ation assets with­in developments.

Resources Non-Stat­utory Guidance

1. This non-stat­utory guid­ance will sup­port Policy 10: Resources of the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan. Redu­cing our con­sump­tion, man­aging waste and pro­tect­ing our lim­ited resources is integ­ral to con­serving what is import­ant about the Nation­al Park, and help­ing our com­munit­ies adapt to a lower car­bon way of liv­ing. This stretches from the need to pro­tect the resources that exist, to facil­it­at­ing devel­op­ment in a way that min­im­ises any neg­at­ive impacts and pro­motes pos­it­ive improve­ment to the envir­on­ment. It also ensures pro­tec­tion of pub­lic health in so far as it is impacted by the devel­op­ment process

2. The policy and non-statu­ary guid­ance will apply to most devel­op­ments, with the guid­ance provid­ing fur­ther details on how water resources, flood­ing, waste man­age­ment, land­fill, min­er­al and aggreg­ate extrac­tion and con­tam­in­ated land need to be taken into account.

Next Steps

1. We pro­pose that the Draft Non-Sup­ple­ment­ary Guid­ance will be pub­lished for a six week peri­od of pub­lic con­sulta­tion, which is expec­ted to com­mence in July 2020. The con­sulta­tion will be pub­li­cised on the CNPA’s web­site and social media platforms.

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 7 26/06/2020

1. All con­sulta­tion com­ments will be sum­mar­ised and used to inform the final non- stat­utory guid­ance. It should also be noted that modi­fic­a­tions may also arise due to changes to the LDP that might be required the Reporter.

2. The con­sulta­tion com­ments and a pro­posed final non-stat­utory guid­ance will be repor­ted back to the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee for adop­tion. Once adop­ted, the guid­ance will sup­port the imple­ment­a­tion of the LDP and will be a mater­i­al con­sid­er­a­tion for the future plan­ning applic­a­tions. It is anti­cip­ated that the pro­posed non-stat­utory guid­ance will be repor­ted back to the Board for approv­al along­side the LDP in autumn 2020.

Dan Har­ris and Andrew Teece June 2020 danharris@​cairngorms.​co.​uk andrewteece@​cairngorms.​co.​uk

Appen­dices:

1. Draft Eco­nom­ic Growth non-stat­utory guidance
2. Draft Open Space, Sport and Recre­ation non-stat­utory guidance
3. Draft Resources Energy non-stat­utory guidance