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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 7 Appendix 4b 25/02/2022

AGENDA ITEM 7

APPENDIX 4B

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PUB­LIC REP­RES­ENT­A­TIONS- SUPPORT

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From:Carol Sent:12 Apr 2021 13:17:24 +0100 To:Planning Subject:22/03/2021 2021/0090/DET High­land Coun­cil, 21/01064/FUL

Case officer; Stephanie Wade Form­a­tion of camper­van site at Land 315M SW Of The Half House, Nethy Bridge Dead­line for Pub­lic Com­ments; 19/04/2021 I would like to add my sup­port for the above plan­ning applic­a­tion. As one of nearly 400,000 motor homers in the UK, I love tour­ing all over our nation and this site would be a wel­come addi­tion. Thank you Car­ol Morbey Motor homer from Yorkshire.

This mes­sage and any attach­ments are con­fid­en­tial and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the inten­ded recip­i­ent, please con­tact me, delete the mes­sage from your com­puter and des­troy any cop­ies. Any dis­tri­bu­tion or copy­ing without my pri­or per­mis­sion is prohibited

UK and EU Motor­cara­van Stat­ist­ics 2020

2021/0090/DET Over 2 mil­lion Motor­cara­vans in Europe Estim­ated Poten­tial Annu­al Spend over €5 Bil­lion More than 357,517 Motor­cara­vans in UK (June 2020 DVLA) Estim­ated Annu­al Spend loc­ally over £850 million

CAMPRA Motor­cara­van Sur­vey Septem­ber 2020

Why did we need a survey ?

Europe have recog­nised the poten­tial rev­en­ue from tour­ing motor­cara­vans for sev­er­al years but the UK have yet to catch on to this

Stayc­a­tions this year have high­lighted the inad­equa­cies in the UK sys­tem that is geared up for cara­vans and tents but has not been updated to cater for the nomad­ic nature of the mod­ern self con­tained motorcaravan

Europe have developed a sup­port net­work com­monly known as Aires to encour­age the mod­ern tour­ing motor­cara­van to spend a couple of nights in the town where they spend on aver­age £47 per night (CAMPRA 2020)

What has changed?

1960 Motor­cara­van Used on camp­sites and fest­ivals. Lim­ited Onboard Facilities

CAMPRA

WASH­BAS­IN

SHOWER TOI­LET

FRIDGE SINK COOKER

2020 Motor­cara­van Self con­tained with onboard water tank, waste tank, toi­let cas­sette and power. Heat­ing and insu­la­tion for year around travel without the need for campsites

What hasn’t changed in 2020 Cara­van sites and con­trol of devel­op­ment act 1960 Still treat­ing self con­tained Motor­cara­vans like a cara­van Coun­cils see Motor­cara­vans as a prob­lem not a rev­en­ue stream Lack of under­stand­ing of the needs of a tour­ing Motorcaravan

Who are CAMPRA ?

CAMPRA 100000

CAMPRA​.org​.uk is a group of motor­cara­van own­ers who have exper­i­enced the wel­come that they receive when tour­ing in Europe and feel the frus­tra­tion when return­ing home to the UK and find the exact opposite

Over 13,000 mem­bers in 3 months

Instead of wel­come signs on approach­ing towns we find ​“NO Motorhome” signs, height bar­ri­ers and get dir­ec­ted to unsuit­able camp­sites. Often full if not booked months in advance, mostly out of town so you need a car, min­im­um stay required, closed out­side of main sea­son or have grass pitches not suit­able for motor­cara­vans and designed for camp­ing not overnight parking

So CAMPRA was formed in 2019 and has expan­ded from around 200 mem­bers to over 13,000 mem­bers since July 2020. CAMPRA is about advising coun­cils and com­munit­ies of the huge rev­en­ue poten­tial avail­able from the Motor­cara­van com­munity. Our needs are simple A SAFE OVERNIGHT PARK­ING SPOT. Our sur­vey that fol­lows will con­firm that we are happy to pay and to spend in the UK.

CAMPRA Motor­cara­van Sur­vey Septem­ber 2020 8,956 Responses

8,956 Responses

91% Aged over 40

£2,961 Per Motor­cara­van spent loc­ally every year plus retail and parking

82% Tour all year round

CAMPRA 200005

£47 Per day Spent loc­ally if stay­ing overnight

92% Have onboard toilets

63 Nights away each year

357,517 Motor­cara­vans in the UK June 2020 Source DVLA 68,192 SORN at the time

Key facts from survey

£857 mil­lion Poten­tial rev­en­ue avail­able to spend annu­ally in loc­al shops, pubs, res­taur­ants and tour­ist attrac­tion each year based on 289,325 UK motor­cara­vans registered as in use on 30 June 2020. Excludes retail spend­ing, park­ing and fuel

Details… Recom­men­ded charges Park­ing £5 Waste Dis­pos­al £3 £10 Aire with Waste Dis­pos­al Charges that the major­ity of respon­ders sup­por­ted as being accept­able in line with Europe

UK Registered Motor­cara­vans Unit Size Occu­pants 96%82% Num­ber of Motor­cara­vans 8m or less

Would use UK Aires 81%91% Of UK motor­cara­vans in reg­u­lar use based on 289,325 registered as in use and 68,192 SORN at end of June 2020 (Source DVLA)

Would use Aires in the UK. Aires are author­ized overnight park­ing and sleep­ing (no camp­ing) Num­ber of Motor­cara­vans with two occupants

Would pay to use Aires 96% Of those who would use an Aire in the UK would pay to use Aires

וןוייו A B 92% Spend Loc­ally • If stay­ing overnight would spend locally

46% Off Grid • Own­ers who park oth­er than on camp­sites 70% £20 • Own­ers who Days away each year 82% Of UK motor­cara­van own­ers spend over 30 days a year away in their motor­cara­vans. Days away shown below. Fig­ures exclude 2% Full time. C 16% cur­rently pay less than £20 for overnight parking

44% 21% 13% 4% Less than 30 30 to 60 60 to 90 days 90 to 180 Over 180

וןויין A B Use of UK Aires and Camp­sites 74% Per­cent­age of own­ers who indic­ated that they would use Aires in addi­tion to camp­sites when tour­ing the UK. Use of types of Aires shown below C 97% Spend Loc­ally • Pur­chase food and sup­plies loc­ally whilst away

62% Self con­tained • Own­ers who can last 3 days or more between Waste Dis­pos­al Points

82% Eat Out • Own­ers who eat out twice or more per week whilst away

91% 69% 74% 41% Overnight Only

Overnight with Waste Disposal

Waste Dis­pos­al Only

Full Secure Aire

Sup­port­ing UK stayc­a­tions How can we increase the UK share of Motor­cara­van Revenue ?

Action required Recog­nise that Park­ing in a self con­tained Motor­cara­van is not camping

Do not apply out­dated camp­site legis­la­tion to overnight park­ing in a self con­tained Motorcaravan

Encour­age coun­cils to accept that the major­ity of motor­cara­vans want to tour not park on a camp­site for two weeks

Install a net­work of waste dis­pos­al points to sup­port overnight park­ing places and tour­ing Motorcaravans

Stayc­a­tions are here to stay so take action now to ensure that we have the infra­struc­ture to sup­port this in 2021

Use social media to spread the word through­out the Motor­cara­van world that the UK wel­comes Motorcaravans

Types of UK Aire Aires are overnight park­ing only — no camp­ing (no extern­al items) self con­tained Motor­cara­vans Overnight Park­ing and sleep­ing only Overnight Park­ing and sleep­ing with waste dis­pos­al point Waste dis­pos­al point — no park­ing Secure Man­aged Aire

Suit­able for any car park close to a vil­lage, town or tour­ist site

Suit­able for car park with toi­lets or access to water and sewer

For pub­lic toi­lets, vil­lage halls etc who have water and sew­er but no space for overnight parking

For unused land near town. This is bar­ri­er con­trolled, CCTV, EHU full Aire

Aires UK

CAMPRA

Check our gal­lery on www​.campra​.org​.uk

Data sources used in this report CAMPRA Motor­cara­van Online Sur­vey :- This online sur­vey ran for one month in Septem­ber 2020 in the UK It was access­ible via social media, web­site or dir­ect link to the sur­vey using Lime Sur­vey Soft­ware Sur­vey link shared across as many social media groups as pos­sible to include responses from all types of own­ers The sur­vey was anonym­ous with responses from 8,956 UK owners

European fig­ure obtained from var­ies reports on European motor­cara­vans and cur­rent num­bers are high­er than repor­ted Estim­ated annu­al spend is based on UK fig­ures as these are sim­il­ar to fig­ures repor­ted from European surveys

Aver­age spend in the UK is based on sur­vey res­ults and £47 is per unit per night spent on food, drink and tour­ist attrac­tions. It does not include retail, loc­al attrac­tions, park­ing or fuel.

UK Registered motor­cara­vans based on data sup­plied by the DVLA at the end of June 2020 289,325 registered as motor­cara­vans and in use 68,192 cur­rently SORN these are not included in the 289,325 fig­ures. The num­ber includes SORN due to coronavir­us Num­bers do not include self conversion’s that due to recent changes are registered as vans with windows

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From:Stephanie Wade Sent:19 Apr 2021 16:08:59 +0100 To:Planning Subject:FW: Camper­van Applic­a­tion — Nethy Bridge CNPΑ — 2021/0090/DET Attachments:Campra Sur­vey Res­ults 2020.pdf

From: Patri­cia Eccles Sent: 19 April 2021 12:42 To: Mur­ray Fer­guson Sub­ject: Camper­van Applic­a­tion — Nethy Bridge CNPA — 2021/0090/DET

Hello Mur­ray Please for­give me for writ­ing dir­ectly to you but I have tried to go via the plan­ning web­site for the last couple of weeks and it all seems to be down. It was down for updat­ing the first week I tried and is now not open­ing for me, at all!

So, please, would you mind passing this on to who­ever is deal­ing with Don­nie Black’s camper­van application?

Richard and I can see that this is des­per­ately needed for the vil­lage as new camper­van own­ers but our real appeal for it is with our Castle Roy hats on.

We see camper­vans as an import­ant future income stream for the Castle but: • The Castle is unable to provide any facil­it­ies and so this site would provide those for passing vans. • The Castle can only take a very lim­ited num­ber, we need extra capa­city nearby. • There are a large num­ber of camper­van groups and they spread the word quickly about attrac­tion & nearby sites and so we would really appre­ci­ate being able to point them towards Castle Roy and Nethy. In addi­tion to the pro­posed Cairngorm site, it would hold them in the area much longer which would bene­fit the whole community.

I have attached a sur­vey done last year about camper­vans and motorhomes which you may have come across. It was actu­ally com­mis­sioned to explore the need for ​‘Aires’,

small sites, but I thought it would be use­ful to share it. £857 mil­lion, exclud­ing retail, park­ing and fuel, seems to show the amount of spend avail­able to us! I do hope that I am not too late. I always try to use the prop­er chan­nels first but in this case, I was sty­mied! Here’s to a great, and well-behaved influx of sum­mer vis­it­ors with holes in their pock­ets! Cheers Patri­cia (Tri­cia, Trish but, please, nev­er Pat!)

Treas­urer, Castle Roy Trust SCIO

Patri­cia Eccles, Croft­bank, Nethy Bridge PH25 3DS T: W:www.castleroy.org.uk CRT: /// CB: /// Castle Roy Face­book If you have received this e‑mail in error, please noti­fy the sender by return e‑mail and then des­troy it. I apo­lo­gise for any inconvenience

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From:Meg Sent:13 Apr 2021 16:03:28 +0100 To:Planning Subject:Nethy Bridge Camper­van site — pro­posed Importance:Normal

22/03/2021 2021/0090/DET High­land Coun­cil 21/01064/FUL Case officer; Stephanie Wade Form­a­tion of camper­van site at Land 315M SW Of The Half House, Nethy Bridge

Dear Ms Wade I am a Motorhome own­er and user. Last year it was obvi­ous that there was a dearth of facil­it­ies for Motor­cara­vans (DVLA name for camper­vans and motorhomes) in the UK and espe­cially in beau­ti­ful areas in Scot­land. Small scale devel­op­ments around the Nation­al park in com­munit­ies like this will help to spread the vis­it­ors without caus­ing over­load in pop­u­lar places. When Motor­cara­van­ners see that facil­it­ies are avail­able they will grav­it­ate to the places where they are being catered for, thus alle­vi­at­ing the prob­lems we saw last year.

Please allow this pro­pos­al as quickly as pos­sible so that it can come onstream this sum­mer. Yours truly Meg Macdonald

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Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0090/DET Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0090/DET Address: Land 315M SW Of The Half House Nethy Bridge Pro­pos­al: Form­a­tion of camper­van site Case Officer: Stephanie Wade Cus­tom­er Details Name: Mr Paul Simpson Address: 7 New­town Cres­cent, New­townards BT23 7GP Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Mem­ber of Pub­lic Stance: Cus­tom­er made com­ments in sup­port of the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:I sent an email yes­ter­day, as this site was not available.

I am sup­port­ive of Mr Black and his ambi­tions for this site on his land, Her is retir­ing from farm­ing, but also sees the need with­in his area, and across Scot­land for more avail­able ​‘Aire’ facil­it­ies, in addi­tion to those already provided by the Camp­sites. Espe­cially after the Stayc­a­tion fiasco of

1. (dirty campers giv­ing every­one in the Motorhome fra­tern­ity a bad, and unjus­ti­fied nametag). My one con­cern on look­ing at his loc­a­tion plan.- It is for 6 double-pitches, 12 in total, with a hedge row between each two pitch site. There is a European fire report that recom­mends at least 3 m dis­tance between motorhomes. I there­fore feel it would be bet­ter with a hedgerow between each single pitch. This report has also been adop­ted by the UK Fire Ser­vice. Also many UK Coun­cils are look­ing to adopt these recom­mend­a­tions when look­ing to provide related ser­vices on their prop­erty, ie where allow­ing overnight sleep­ing in Coun­cil car parks. Oth­er­wise I give Mr Black 100% of my sup­port, and wish him well in his applic­a­tion. IF approved it will be a loc­a­tion I would con­sider when tour­ing around Scot­land, rather than a camp­site, which has to be pre booked in advance, and many only allow a min­im­um of 4 nights or more.

Com­ments for Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2021/0090/DET Applic­a­tion Sum­mary Applic­a­tion Num­ber: 2021/0090/DET Address: Land 315M SW Of The Half House Nethy Bridge Pro­pos­al: Form­a­tion of camper­van site Case Officer: Stephanie Wade Cus­tom­er Details Name: Mrs Zoe Wat­son Address: 6 Hale Road Hel­pring­ham Sleaford Com­ment Details Com­menter Type: Mem­ber of Pub­lic Stance: Cus­tom­er made com­ments in sup­port of the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Com­ment Reas­ons: Comment:I used to live in Moray­shire. I still vis­it the area reg­u­larly and enjoy tour­ing the area in my motorhome. Last sum­mer the camp­sites were very busy and I prefer to use ded­ic­ated motorhome stop­overs rather than tra­di­tion­al camp­sites. This is def­in­itely some­where I would stop next time I am in the area. Thank you

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From:Paul Galpin Sent:12 Apr 2021 18:30:42 +0100 To:Planning Subject:FAO Ms S. Wade — Camper­van site plan­ning applic­a­tion Dear Ms. Wade

Re 22/03/2021 2021/0090/DET High­land Coun­cil 21/01064/FUL Form­a­tion of camper­van site at Land 315M SW Of The Half House, Nethy Bridge

May I recom­mend this applic­a­tion as worthy of ser­i­ous con­sid­er­a­tion and recom­mend it be gran­ted as it will serve a dire and grow­ing need.

As a former tent/​caravan own­er and now a camper­van own­er of many years travel, in the UK and through­out Europe, I can affirm that Scot­land is in the lead in provid­ing sup­port­ive facil­it­ies for these pur­suits in the UK. How­ever, as I’m sure you are aware, due to the CV19 pan­dem­ic there will be an explo­sion of ​‘stayc­a­tion­ing’ and Scot­land will be at the fore­front of destinations.

There is nowhere near suf­fi­cient short term overnight ​‘camper­van’ sites, or ​‘aires’ as they are known in Europe, to serve the demand. They are pro­lif­ic in Ger­many, Spain, Por­tugal and France, which alone has over four thou­sand low budget short term aires spe­cific­ally for campervans.

There are 386,000 motorhomes/​campervans registered in the UK, the major­ity owned by respons­ible mature people to whom ​‘dirty camp­ing’ is as abhor­rent as the next non- camper­van per­son. A recent sur­vey of 1500 camper­van own­ers revealed that their aver­age daily spend is £47 per head. Giv­en the dire straits that many of the hos­pit­al­ity and tour­ism industry pro­viders have suffered due to CV 19, the more ​‘aires’ that can be loc­ated with­in com­fort­able walk­ing to these out­lets the bet­ter it will be for the industry.

Con­trary to pop­u­lar opin­ion (of many camp site own­ers) aires do not com­pete with camp sites for cus­tom any more than B&B accom­mod­a­tion com­petes with that of lux­ury hotels. Camper­van own­ers gen­er­ally do not seek long term camp sites to hol­i­day on, they prefer short one or two night stop­overs when touring.

In con­clu­sion may I say that the pro­vi­sion of more short-term stop over facil­it­ies for camper­vans is a vital neces­sity, par­tic­u­larly in the CNP, because they are com­ing any­way. Kind­est regards Paul GALPIN

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From:Paul Simpson Sent:12 Apr 2021 13:15:27 +0100 To:Planning Subject:Planning applic­a­tion 21/01064/FUL Nethy Bridge form­a­tion of 12 pitch motorhome site Afternoon

Ref­er­ence: 22/03/2021 2021/0090/DET High­land Coun­cil 21/01064/FUL Case officer; Stephanie Wade Form­a­tion of camper­van site at Land 315M SW Of The Half House, Nethy Bridge Dead­line for Pub­lic Com­ments: 19/04/2021

Your http://​www​.cairngorms​.co​.uk/​p​a​r​k​-​a​u​t​h​o​r​i​t​y​/​p​l​a​n​n​i​n​g​/​p​l​a​n​n​i​n​g​a​p​p​l​i​c​a​tions link is still down this morn­ing after last weeks upgrad­ing. The above ref­er­ence states Pub­lic Com­ments dead­line is today week, 19^th April. As there is no means of post­ing any com­ments via the Plan­ning Applic­a­tion portal, here are my com­ments and documents.

I am a motorhome own­er, and mem­ber of CAMpRa (Cam­paign for Real Aires in the UK), http://​www​.campra​.org​.uk I wel­come Mr Black’s desire to diver­si­fy on his retire­ment, and wel­come his con­cern for the Tour­ism Industry in Scot­land, after last year’s Stayc­a­tion inva­sion of people with new motorhomes and camper­vans. More facil­it­ies are required, and I wish him well in his applic­a­tion. There are issues;. His site plan shows 12 motorhome pitches, com­pris­ing of 6 sets of two pitches side by side, with a hedge divider between each double pitch. I am con­cerned re Fire issues, with these dual Motorhome pitches, as the motorhomes would be very close togeth­er. It might be bet­ter to have 12 indi­vidu­al Pitches, with a hedge divider between them.. Yours Sin­cerely Mr Paul Simpson

7 New­town Cres­cent New­townards N Ire­land BT23 7GP

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Paul Simpson From:Paul Simpson Sent:13 Apr 2021 09:42:46 +0100 To:Planning Subject:Motorhome spacing.Further to my email yes­ter­day, 12^th April regard­ing the pro­posed camp­ste at Nethy Bridge. It has been brought to my atten­tion that CAMPrA www​.campra​.org​.uk is recom­mend­ing a dis­tance of 3m spa­cing between parked motorhomes on pitches.

This is being con­sidered by many Coun­cils and The Nation­al Trust, as they decide about access to their prop­er­ties, includ­ing Coun­cil car­parks. I delare my mem­ber­ship of CAMPrA. Yours Sin­cerely Mr Paul Simpson 7 New­town Cres­cent New­townards N IRE­LAND BT23 7GP

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