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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 8 23/04/2021

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

FOR INFORM­A­TION

Title: UPDATE ON ABER­DEEN­SHIRE ARCHI­TEC­TUR­AL AND LAND­SCAPE DESIGN AWARDS 2020 Pre­pared by: Gav­in Miles, Head of Plan­ning and Communities

Pur­pose To update the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee on the recently com­pleted Aber­deen­shire Archi­tec­tur­al and Land­scape Design Awards 2020, and cat­egory win­ners loc­ated in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park.

Recom­mend­a­tion That the Committee:

i. Note the award win­ners, com­men­ded entries and short­l­ists con­tain­ing good examples of design with­in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park.

Back­ground

1. The CNPA has run design awards com­pet­i­tions twice since it the Nation­al Park was estab­lished and will run a fur­ther com­pet­i­tion in 2022. Aber­deen­shire Coun­cil, where there is sig­ni­fic­antly more devel­op­ment dur­ing any year than with­in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park, run a suc­cess­ful bien­ni­al design awards com­pet­i­tion. The 2020 Aber­deen­shire Archi­tec­tur­al and Land­scape Design Awards, were com­pleted entirely online and the res­ults announced on 31 March 2021. There were many entries from devel­op­ments with­in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park and a num­ber of win­ning and com­men­ded entries that help show­case good design. The awards included oth­er cat­egor­ies and win­ners from oth­er loc­a­tions with­in Aber­deen­shire and we recom­mend mem­bers view the full range of entries and win­ners for interest.

Sum­mary of win­ning entries with­in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park

1. The Aber­deen­shire Awards have an easy to use web­site so the lists below sum­mar­ise the win­ning entries from the Cairngorms Nation­al Park under each rel­ev­ant cat­egory of the awards, with a link to each entry on the web­site. The awards were announced on and were intro­duced by Coun­cil­lor Bill Howat­son, Prov­ost of Aber­deen­shire and

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 8 23/04/2021 His Roy­al High­ness Prince Charles, The Duke of Roth­say, who also announced the Fife Arms Hotel in Brae­mar as the over­all win­ner of the lan Shep­herd Award.

Con­ser­va­tion and build­ing adapt­a­tion category

1. Highly com­men­ded — Tower O Ess by Gerry Robb Archi­tec­tur­al Design Ser­vices in Glen Tanar
2. Highly com­men­ded — Gairn­sheil Lodge by Gerry Robb Archi­tec­tur­al Design Ser­vices in Glen­gairn (near Ballater)
3. Highly com­men­ded — The Res­tor­a­tion of St Nathalan’s Kirk by LDN Archi­tects LLP in Tullich
4. Com­men­ded — An Cnocan Dubh by Gerry Robb Archi­tec­tur­al Design Ser­vices in Braemar
5. Dis­tinc­tion — Bal­later Sta­tion by Hal­l­i­day Fraser Mun­ro in Ballater
6. Dis­tinc­tion — The Fife Arms Hotel by Mox­on Archi­tects Ltd in Braemar

Innov­at­ive single house design (includ­ing exten­sions) category

1. Cat­egory win­ner, dis­tinc­tion — Drum­mar­get­tie by Mox­on Archi­tects Ltd in Crathie.
2. Highly com­men­ded — Dal­brack Cot­tage by Brown and Brown Archi­tects in Ballater

Busi­ness enter­prise category

1. Cat­egory win­ner, dis­tinc­tion — The Fife Arms Hotel by Mox­on Archi­tects Ltd in Braemar
2. Dis­tinc­tion — Bal­later Sta­tion by Hal­l­i­day Fraser Mun­ro in Ballater

Con­clu­sion

1. The 2020 Aber­deen­shire Awards were clearly a suc­cess, with many worthy win­ners from across Aber­deen­shire. How­ever, the Cairngorms Nation­al Park was well rep­res­en­ted in the entries, and a range of good qual­ity devel­op­ment is show­cased, includ­ing the Fife Arms Hotel and Bal­later Sta­tion pro­jects that were approved by the CNPA Plan­ning Com­mit­tee. We all look for­ward to some of these and oth­er pro­jects from across the Nation­al Park, being entered into the CNPA’s next Design Awards in 2022.

Gav­in Miles April 2021 gavinmiles@​cairngorms.​co.​uk