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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 7 Appendix 3 12/06/2020

AGENDA ITEM 7

APPENDIX 3

2020/0105/DET

COM­MUNITY COUN­CIL COMMENTS

aviemore & vicin­ity com­munity coun­cil ​“Stand fast, Craigellachie”

‘Colon­say’ 12 Mor­lich Place, Aviemore, Inverness-shire. PH22 1TH

Tel. No. Email. avccchairman@​gmail.​com

15^th May 2020 Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity 14 The Square Grant­own on Spey Scot­land PH26 3HG

Dear Sir,

Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2020/0105/DET — Install­a­tion of two tube slides etc, Cairngorm Moun­tain, Glen­more, Aviemore, PH22 1RB

I refer to the above applic­a­tion and must inform you that Aviemore and Vicin­ity Com­munity Coun­cil main­tains its objec­tion to the applic­a­tion for the fol­low­ing reasons;

1. The Com­munity Coun­cil is not opposed to devel­op­ment at Cairngorm but wants to be sure that it is a well-struc­tured, care­fully planned, and sus­tain­able devel­op­ment which sat­is­fies all the Aims of the Park. The Com­munity Coun­cil sub­mits that this applic­a­tion is lack­ing in information.

2. The ​‘Over­view Sup­port Plan­ning State­ment’ says that ​‘cov­er­ing let­ters for each of these applic­a­tions will con­tain addi­tion­al inform­a­tion spe­cif­ic to the indi­vidu­al applic­a­tion’. The ​‘Applic­a­tion Cov­er Let­ter’ provided does not give any more inform­a­tion on what is proposed.

3. The Com­munity Coun­cil had to request a copy of the ​‘Applic­a­tion Cov­er Let­ter’ as it was not on the Eplan­ning web­site. That let­ter should have been on the Chair­man John Gri­er­son Vic-chair­man Al Dar­gie Sec­ret­ary Joe Kirby Treas­urer Wilma Grierson

web­site. It is out­rageous that the Com­munity Coun­cil, a stat­utory con­sul­tee, should learn more about the applic­a­tion in the loc­al news­pa­per than is in the developer’s applic­a­tion. It is inform­a­tion that the developer should have included in their application.

1. This applic­a­tion is put­ting the cart before the horse. In the Cairngorm and Glen­more strategy agreed by the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Board on 30^th Septem­ber 2016, the part­ners agreed to devel­op and deliv­er mas­ter­plan for Cairngorm Moun­tain. To date there has been no mas­ter­plan pro­posed. In the ​‘Over­view Sup­port Plan­ning State­ment’, HIE states that over­sight provided by HIE and CMSL ensures that this short­er-term devel­op­ment pro­pos­al will not under­mine the more stra­tegic and medi­um-term plan­ning approach. The Com­munity Coun­cil has no con­fid­ence in this state­ment and cites ​‘Nat­ur­al Retreats’ as the reas­on for this lack of confidence.

In con­clu­sion; Aviemore and Vicin­ity Com­munity Coun­cil objects to the applic­a­tion. The applic­a­tion does not con­tain neces­sary inform­a­tion regard­ing the reas­ons for the applic­a­tion. Cairngorm Moun­tain is of vital import­ance to the well­being of the Park and, what can only be described as slip­shod plan­ning applic­a­tions, does not help.

Yours faith­fully,

Chair­man

Chair­man John Gri­er­son Sec­ret­ary Joe Kirby Vic-chair­man Al Dar­gie Treas­urer Wilma Grierson