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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Item 7 27/08/2021

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

FOR DECISION

Title: DESIGN AND PLACE­MAK­ING NON-STAT­UTORY GUIDANCE

Pre­pared by: Dan Har­ris, Plan­ning Man­ager and Nas­im Mehr­abi, Gradu­ate Planner

Recom­mend­a­tion

That the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Draft Design and Place­mak­ing Non-Stat­utory Guid­ance to sup­port the LDP (2021) approve for consultation.

Back­ground

1. The Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan was adop­ted on the 26^th March 2021. The CNPA had pre­pared sev­en pieces of Non-stat­utory Guid­ance that were adop­ted to sup­port it. The Non-Stat­utory guid­ance that has been adop­ted is a follows:

a) Sup­port­ing Eco­nom­ic Growth Non-Stat­utory Guid­ance b) Nat­ur­al Her­it­age Non-Stat­utory Guid­ance c) Land­scape Non-Stat­utory Guid­ance d) Renew­able Non-Stat­utory Guid­ance e) Open Space, Sport and Recre­ation Non-Stat­utory Guid­ance f) Cul­tur­al Her­it­age Non-Stat­utory Guid­ance g) Resources Non-Stat­utory Guidance

1. Sup­ple­ment­ary guid­ance and non-stat­utory guid­ance sup­port­ing the LDP needs to under­go the pro­cess of pub­lic con­sulta­tion but unlike the Pro­posed LDP is not sub­ject to exam­in­a­tion. Fur­ther­more, unlike Sup­ple­ment­ary Guid­ance, non-stat­utory guid­ance does not need to be sent to Scot­tish Min­is­ters for review.

2. The fol­low­ing pieces of guid­ance from the pre­vi­ous LDP (2015) remain in place to provide sup­port in ref­er­ence to hous­ing, design and place­mak­ing and developer contributions:

a) New Hous­ing Devel­op­ment Non-Stat­utory Guid­ance b) Sus­tain­able Design Non-Stat­utory Guid­ance c) Developer Con­tri­bu­tions Non-Stat­utory Guidance

1. It is inten­ded that the draft Design and Place­mak­ing Non-stat­utory Guid­ance put before you to approve for con­sulta­tion will replace the 2015 Sus­tain­able Design Non-stat­utory Guid­ance and be used to sup­port Policy 3 of cur­rent LDP (2021). A full copy of the draft guid­ance for con­sulta­tion is provided in Appendix 1.

Design and Place­mak­ing Non-stat­utory Guidance

1. This non-stat­utory guid­ance will sup­port Policy 3 of the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan, which provides the frame­work for how good design and place­mak­ing prin­ciples should be applied in devel­op­ment proposals.

2. Policy 3 has under­gone numer­ous changes since its pre­vi­ous iter­a­tion in the 2015 plan. In par­tic­u­lar is the addi­tion of Policy 3.1 which aligns the Plan with Scot­tish Plan­ning Policy by requir­ing pro­pos­als to meet the six qual­it­ies of suc­cess­ful places, namely that devel­op­ments be:

i. dis­tinct­ive; ii. safe and pleas­ant; iii. easy to move around; iv. wel­com­ing; v. adapt­able; and. vi. resource efficient.

1. The new non-stat­utory guid­ance there­fore con­tains inform­a­tion to aid in the inter­pret­a­tion of this policy. The guid­ance also takes a much more visu­al approach to explain­ing design and place­mak­ing concepts.

Next Steps

1. It is pro­posed that the Draft Non-Sup­ple­ment­ary Guid­ance be pub­lished for a six week peri­od of pub­lic con­sulta­tion. The con­sulta­tion will be pub­li­cised on the CNPA’s web­site and social media plat­forms. All con­sulta­tion com­ments will be sum­mar­ised and used to inform the final non-stat­utory guidance.

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 LDP (2021) 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 in later in 2021.

Dan Har­ris and Nas­im Mehrabi August 2021 danharris@​cairngorms.​co.​uk nasimmehrabi@​cairngorms.​co.​uk

Appen­dices:

1. Draft Design and Place­mak­ing Non-stat­utory Guidance