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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 7 Appendix 3 26/02/2021

AGENDA ITEM 7

APPENDIX 3

2020/0254/DET

REP­RES­ENT­A­TIONS OBJECTION

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2020/0254/DET

Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2020/0254/DET Address: Glen­shee Ski Centre Brae­mar Aber­deen­shire AB35 5XU Pro­pos­al: Erec­tion of Zip­wire Plat­forms and Land­ing Plat­forms and Install­a­tion of 3 Double Zip­wires Case Officer: Rob­bie Calvert

Cus­tom­er Details Name: Mr Nick Kempe Address: 23 Queen Square, Glas­gow G41 2BG

Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Mem­ber of Pub­lic Stance: Cus­tom­er objects to the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:This is a pro­vi­sion­al objec­tion pending receipt of fur­ther inform­a­tion. I appre­ci­ate the dif­fi­culties that Glen Shee faces, par­tic­u­larly after a run of poor snow win­ters in the east and that there is a need to find ways to sus­tain the centre in the future. I also acknow­ledge the facil­it­ies that the centre provides for the gen­er­al pub­lic and what for most of the time any­way has been a gen­er­ally pos­it­ive wel­come for hill walk­ers, ski moun­tain­eers etc. The Sup­port­ing State­ment refers to the zip wire as being the first of sev­er­al devel­op­ments. The CNPA needs to estab­lish wheth­er these devel­op­ments are in total of a nature that a mas­ter­plan is required, as at Cairn Gorm, or wheth­er the poten­tial cumu­lat­ive impact of plan­ning applic­a­tions will be slight. Second, there is no inform­a­tion about when the pro­posed zip wire will be oper­ated (eg for how many sea­son etc), how many people are expec­ted to use it and wheth­er this will have an impact on any of the oth­er activ­it­ies that take place at Glen Shee. Third and related to this there is no ana­lys­is of the impact that the weath­er, includ­ing wind speeds will have on this. Fourth, noth­ing is said about the poten­tial for ice to accu­mu­late on the wire and fall on skiers/​boarders in winter. In my view this inform­a­tion might use­fully be set out in sup­port­ing busi­ness and oper­a­tion­al plan which would then enable an informed decision to be taken about the devel­op­ment. I note that in the EIA Screen­ing Option doc­u­ment of 05/11/2020 Sec­tion 4. Pop­u­la­tion and Human Health, ques­tion states 4.1 Will there be any risk of major acci­dents etc? and the Answer is NO. I believe that is wrong on two counts and should be addressed. First because of the risk of ice fall­ing on ski­ers referred to above. Second because there have been acci­dents involving people on zip­wires col­lid­ing with birds. Giv­en the num­bers of red grouse in the coire, that would appear pos­sible here.