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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 7 Appendix 3 21/02/2020

AGENDA ITEM 7

APPENDIX 3

2019/0386/NOT

APPLIC­A­TION FOR PRI­OR NOTI­FIC­A­TION AND PRI­OR APPROVAL

Addi­tion­al Information

Applic­a­tion for Pri­or Noti­fic­a­tion and Pri­or Approval

Cran­naich

17/11/2019

Cicely Giles and Graeme Hill

Con­tents

Cov­er page page 1 Con­tents page page 2 Sum­mary, design and sit­ing pages 3 – 4 Loc­a­tion map 1:10,000 page 5 Site plan 1: 2500 page 6 Site plan 1:1250 page 7 Pho­to­graphs of site page 8 Design draw­ings pages 9 – 11

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Sum­mary After pur­chas­ing six acres of wood­land close to Car­rbridge, we sub­mit­ted a Wood­land Man­age­ment Plan to Scot­tish Forestry that has sub­sequently been approved (Ref­er­ence Num­ber: FPA-6699). Our Wood­land Man­age­ment Plan was developed based on con­sulta­tion with the Cairngorm Nation­al Park Author­ity, the Wood­land Trust, Trees for Life and the RSPB.

We are now pre­par­ing to imple­ment its object­ives which include the thin­ning of densely planted trees and the plant­ing of over 800 trees with stakes and tubes.

In order to carry out these works, we would require a forestry build­ing to provide: • secure stor­age for tools and equip­ment. • a shel­ter dur­ing our autumn/​winter work peri­od. • a covered area to under­take the pot­ting and rear­ing of Scots pine sap­lings. As the wood­land is sited with­in a seed exclu­sion zone, we will grow our own Scots pine sap­lings from seed.

Key Object­ives and Con­sid­er­a­tions As out­lined in the Wood­land Man­age­ment Plan, our long term vis­ion for the wood­land is to improve it as a hab­it­at for wild­life. We intend to do this by select­ively thin­ning trees in areas where they have out­grown their cur­rent stock­ing dens­ity and plant­ing a vari­ety of nat­ive trees through­out the wood. Thin­ning will allow exist­ing trees to mature fully and will per­mit more light to reach the ground, encour­aging the under­story and pro­mot­ing tree regen­er­a­tion. By plant­ing and pro­tect­ing young indi­gen­ous trees, a more struc­tur­ally and spe­cies diverse wood­land will devel­op, thereby increas­ing shel­ter and food sources for wildlife.

As the wood­land is loc­ated close to a loc­al caper­caille pop­u­la­tion, our Wood­land Man­age­ment Plan would be imple­men­ted with­in RSPB guidelines. Any poten­tially dis­rupt­ive forestry works (e.g. felling) would be under­taken out­with sens­it­ive lekking and breed­ing times (March 15^th to May 15^th exclus­ively and with cau­tion from then until August). This will not only avoid dis­rup­tion to the caper­caille but will also ensure that tree felling and plant­ing hap­pens at an appro­pri­ate time dur­ing the trees’ dormant season.

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Design • The forestry build­ing will be made from nat­ur­al, loc­ally sourced mater­i­als with intern­al dimen­sions of 3m x 6m. • The tim­ber frame will be made with logs from wood­land thin­ning. • The foot­ings will be made with boulders from the plot, rais­ing the struc­ture off the ground. • The walls will be clad in tim­ber to blend into its wood­land sur­round­ings. • The roof will be made from cor­rug­ated met­al. • The win­dows will be posi­tioned to take advant­age of nat­ur­al light enter­ing the build­ing. • A covered deck­ing will provide a sheltered out­door work space and an area for dry stor­age. • Due to the building’s light­weight design and use of nat­ur­al mater­i­als it will be eas­ily removed without trace at the end of its life.

Sit­ing The forestry build­ing will be sited in a nat­ur­al clear­ing close to the centre of the wood­land (see site plan pages 6 – 7). This will give it the appear­ance of being nestled into the land­scape and will be less vis­ible from the track, provid­ing addi­tion­al secur­ity. This cent­ral loc­a­tion will optim­ise access to all areas of the plot allow­ing forestry oper­a­tions to be under­taken efficiently.

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0 200 400m Loc­a­tion Map 1:10,000 Map Scale: 1:10,000 Date: 15/10/2018 Vin­tage: 2017 Grid Ref­er­ence: NH8933323602 N Centre Coordin­ates: X:289333 Y:823602 Prin­ted by the Leg­al Depos­it Lib­rar­ies Map View­er. Developed by think­Where Ltd. Repro­duced by Per­mis­sion of Ord­nance Sur­vey. Con­tains Ord­nance Sur­vey data Crown copy­right and data­basė rights 2018, Con­tains Ord­nance Sur­vey data © Crown copy­right and data­base rights 2017 5

312m 0 50 100m Map Scale: 1:2,500 Date: 15/10/2018 Vin­tage: 2017 Grid Ref­er­ence: NH8921223942 Centre Coordin­ates: X:289212 Y:823942 Loc­a­tion Plan 1:2500 N Prin­ted by the Leg­al Depos­it Lib­rar­ies Map View­er. Developed by think­Where Ltd. Repro­duced by Per­mis­sion of Ord­nance Sur­vey. Con­tains Ord­nance Sur­vey data © Crown copy­right and data­base rights 2018, Con­tains Ord­nance Sur­vey data Crown copy­right and data­base rights 2017 6

木 0 20 40m Map Scale: 1:1,250 Date: 15/10/2018 Vin­tage: 2017 Grid Ref­er­ence: NH8919423973 Centre Coordin­ates: X:289194 Y:823973. Key: Shared intern­al access track Cran­naich bound­ary Forestry rides Pro­posed site for build­ing Site Plan 1:1,250 N یاده 必 天 矢 Prin­ted by the Leg­al Depos­it Lib­rar­ies Map View­er. Developed by think­Where Ltd. Repro­duced by Per­mis­sion of Ord­nance Sur­vey. Con­tains Ord­nance Sur­vey data Crown copy­right and data­base rights 2018, Con­tains Ord­nance Sur­vey data Crown copy­right and data­base rights 2017 7

Image 1: hut site in the clear­ing look­ing south down a ride Image 2: clear­ing in which hut will be sited, facing west Image 3: access track to the entrance of the wood­land Image 4: example of a densly planted area of wood­land requir­ing thin­ning 8

South Elev­a­tion 1:50 34 – 5 240 0 North Elev­a­tion 1:50 ← 345 240 50 0 Design Draw­ings 750 750 → 640 640 9 →

East Elev­a­tion 1:50 345 240 ١٩٥ 340 → 50 Ο ← 530 West Elev­a­tion 1:50 345 240 50 50 0 K ‑340 * ‑190- ← 530 10

Plan View 1:50 530 K ← Ο 300 Ο ‑640 11 ‑600 a Ο ← 340 * 190