Item8Appendix2SupportingInformation20210262DET

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 8 Appendix 2 24/09/2021

AGENDA ITEM 8

APPENDIX 2

2021/0262/DET

SUP­PORT­ING INFORMATION

About Plan­ning

Ref: ²¹⁄₀₀₀₁ Date: 20^th April 2021

Mr W Wylie Angus House Plan­ning Ser­vice Orch­ard­bank Busi­ness Park For­far DD8 1AN

Town Plan­ning Con­sult­ants Mil­lars House, Stu­dio 2, 4la Gray Street, Broughty Ferry DD5 3BF Tel: Email:

Sent by email:

Dear Mr Wright,

THE TOWN AND COUN­TRY PLAN­NING (SCOT­LAND) ACT 1997, AS AMENDED (THE ​“ACT”) RET­RO­SPECT­IVE PLAN­NING APPLIC­A­TION FOR RETEN­TION OF EXIST­ING TRACK AND UPGRADE AT THE SADDLE, CLOVA ESTATE, ANGUS (THE ​“DEVEL­OP­MENT”)

Please find enclosed, on behalf of our cli­ent Mr H Niven (the ​“Applic­ant”), the above Plan­ning Application.

The Plan­ning Applic­a­tion is accom­pan­ied by the following:

Ο Loc­a­tion & Site Own­er­ship Plan (Scale 1:1250); Sup­ple­ment­ary Loc­a­tion Plan (Scale 1:5000); Ο Ο Site Plan (Scale 1:1000); Ο Site Plan (Scale 1:500); Ο The Saddle — Track Remedi­ation Pro­pos­als (1:1500); Ο The Saddle – Track Remedi­al Works (1:1500); Ο The Saddle — Remedi­ation Pro­pos­als (1:1500); Ο Cul­vert Install­a­tion — Plan; Ο Cul­vert Install­a­tion — Sec­tion; Ο Drain­age Repairs (before remedi­ation) – Sec­tion; Ο Drain­age Repairs (after remedi­ation) – Sec­tion; Ο Track­side Drain­age and Repro­fil­ing (before remedi­ation) – Sec­tion; Ο Track­side Drain­age and Repro­fil­ing (after remedi­ation) – Section;

VAT No. 355945463 Registered in Scot­land No. SC668532

About Plan­ning

Ο The Saddle Track Remedi­ation Sup­port­ing Inform­a­tion; Ο The Saddle Wood Photographs.

As you are aware, Sec­tion 25 of the Town and Coun­try Plan­ning Act 1997 as amended provides that an applic­a­tion for plan­ning per­mis­sion shall be determ­ined in accord­ance with the Devel­op­ment Plan unless mater­i­al con­sid­er­a­tions indic­ate otherwise.

The rel­ev­ant Devel­op­ment Plan con­text is provided by the TAY­plan Stra­tegic Devel­op­ment Plan (TSDP) and the Angus Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan (ALDP), 2016. The Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan (CNPLDP), 2021 will also be rel­ev­ant to the con­sid­er­a­tion of the pro­pos­al in the event of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity (CNPA) call­ing-in the Applic­a­tion for their determination.

The fol­low­ing assess­ment iden­ti­fies com­pli­ance with the Devel­op­ment Plan and oth­er mater­i­al con­sid­er­a­tions and we would be grate­ful for approv­al of the Applic­a­tion hav­ing regard to the fol­low­ing context.

The Applic­a­tion

Fig­ure 1: Site Loc­a­tion illus­trates that the track runs to the south of the B955 and to the west of Cad­dam Wood. The track runs for a length of approx­im­ately 409 metres on land form­ing part of the Glen Clova Estate, which lies approx­im­ately 15 miles north of Kirriemuir. The River South Esk is approx­im­ately 300m to the north and the site is loc­ated with the Cairngorms Nation­al Park bound­ary. The River South Esk is a des­ig­nated Spe­cial Area of Con­ser­va­tion (SAC) and the site falls with­in the Cairngorms Mas­sif Spe­cial Pro­tec­tion Area (SPA).

Fig­ure 1: Site Location

00 Track Drain 0 Iss Col­lects Spreads Drain 天天 →Min­rie Burn الله Tas­ues Issues Issues FB 11232m Issues D Old Manse +231m T Gal­lows Ke PW Hotel GP TCB 1955 +895 238m Track River South Esk Glen Clova 231m Glen House Rath ८,३ Kirk­ton of Clova Roineach Mhôr C Π Issues Witches How 237m Cadham Issues Issues Issues 0 Issues, Issues 238m 0 Issues Grouse Butts Issues Issues VAT No. 355945463 Registered in Scot­land No. SC668532 234m Track Issues → 239m

About Plan­ning The track was cre­ated in 2017, and as the Applic­ant was not aware that Pri­or Approv­al may have been required, has now sub­mit­ted this ret­ro­spect­ive Applic­a­tion. Pho­to­graphs are provided with the Applic­a­tion illus­trat­ing the extent of reve­get­a­tion of the track, over the last 4 years.

The Applic­a­tion also includes pos­it­ive pro­pos­als to improve the track, which are detailed in the Sup­port­ing Inform­a­tion doc­u­ment on ​“Track Remedi­ation Pro­pos­als” and include the fit­ting of new cul­verts, remedi­al works to the track­side drain­age and the removal/​reprofiling of spoil. In addi­tion, it is pro­posed to fur­ther veget­ate the soils using loc­ally robbed turves or seeded using an upland spe­cies grass seed mix identic­al or sim­il­ar to Sco­tia Seeds High­land Grass­land Mix at the man­u­fac­tur­ers recom­men­ded specification.

His­tory

On 26^th May 2020 the CNPA gran­ted Pri­or Approv­al for forestry related build­ing works (non- res­id­en­tial) – main­ten­ance and upgrad­ing of exist­ing access tracks and form­a­tion of new tracks, turn­ing areas, a bor­row pit and water cross­ings at Cad­dam Plant­a­tion (Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Ref: 2020/0037/NOT). These tracks are loc­ated to the south­east of The Saddle. An addi­tion­al Applic­a­tion has also been sub­mit­ted for a fur­ther exist­ing track at Cad­dam at the same time as mak­ing this Applic­a­tion. Fig­ure 2: Approved Cad­dam Wood Tracks illus­trates the net­work of paths which have already been approved.

Fig­ure 2: Approved Cad­dam Wood Tracks

Issues Issues Issues ↑ 000 a 00 00 00000 10 00 00 Land­scape Craigs of Inch­dowrie a Although the pro­pos­als occur an elev­ated loc­a­tion, their visu­al impact are much reduced as the major­ity of the track con­struc­tion takes place with­in the wood­land. Tree felling will be required to facil­it­ate the track con­struc­tion, how­ever felling will be kept to a nar­row cor­ridor which will aim to min­im­ise poten­tial land­scape impacts any 00 VAT No. 355945463 Registered in Scot­land No. SC668532 FB 234m 天 March­burn Reser­voir (covered) 234m 木 木木 ↑ Track Pro­posed Cad­dam Tracks New Landrover track — 1,022m Upgrade exist­ing track — 913m Pat ווייץ Col­lects 0 231m 236m 236m New­big­ging 233m Sinks 1411

About Plan­ning TAY­plan, approved June 2017

Table 1: TAY­plan, 2017: Key Policies iden­ti­fies the key rel­ev­ant policies relat­ing to the proposal.

Table 1: TAY­plan, 2017: Key Policies Policy Com­pli­ance Policy 2: Shap­ing Bet­ter Qual­ity Places The devel­op­ment improves access­ib­il­ity and makes the best use of exist­ing infra­struc­ture. The devel­op­ment is con­sidered to com­ply. Policy 3: A First Choice for Invest­ment The devel­op­ment sup­ports the role of coun­tryside man­age­ment and poten­tially con­trib­utes to tour­ism and recre­ation. The devel­op­ment is con­sidered to comply.

Angus Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan (ALDP), adop­ted 2016

The pro­pos­als map iden­ti­fies that the site falls with­in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity. Table 2: ALDP, 2016 – Key Policies iden­ti­fies the key rel­ev­ant policies relat­ing to the proposal.

Table 2: ALDP, 2016: Key Policies Policy Com­pli­ance Policy DSI Devel­op­ment Bound­ar­ies and Pri­or­it­ies The devel­op­ment is of a scale and nature appro­pri­ate to its loc­a­tion relat­ing only to the reten­tion and upgrade of a hill­side track, ensur­ing a bet­ter use of the land and sup­port­ing access­ib­il­ity. The devel­op­ment is con­sidered to com­ply. Policy DS2 Access­ible Devel­op­ment The devel­op­ment provides and enhances a safe and pleas­ant path for walk­ing suit­able for use by all. The devel­op­ment is con­sidered to com­ply. Policy DS4 Amen­ity The devel­op­ment does not have an unac­cept­able adverse impact on the sur­round­ing area or the envir­on­ment or amen­ity. The devel­op­ment is con­sidered to com­ply. Policy TC16 Tour­ism Devel­op­ment The devel­op­ment will provide access to the coun­tryside. There is a jus­ti­fi­able loc­a­tion­al require­ment for retaining/​upgrading the track, whic forms part of a wider net­work of tracks which have already been approved by the CNPA. Fig­ure 1 illus­trates that the devel­op­ment is of a scale and nature which is in keep­ing with the char­ac­ter of the loc­al land­scape. There is no known impact on the VAT No. 355945463 Registered in Scot­land No. SC668532

About Plan­ning nat­ur­al envir­on­ment or sur­round­ing amen­ity and the devel­op­ment pos­it­ively con­trib­utes to access­ib­il­ity. The devel­op­ment is con­sidered to comply.

Cairngorm Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan (CNPLDP), adop­ted 2021

The Spa­tial Strategy of the CNPLDP iden­ti­fies that ​“Most of the land out­side the Park’s main set­tle­ments is farm­land, moor­land, forestry, wood­land and moun­tain that is val­ued for nature, recre­ation and land man­age­ment activ­it­ies.” The devel­op­ment act­ively sup­ports these man­age­ment and land use object­ives and there is no know impact on nature con­ser­va­tion interests.

Table 3: CNPLDP, 2021: Key Policies iden­ti­fies the key rel­ev­ant policies relat­ing to the proposal.

Table 3: CNPLDP, 2015 – Key Policies Policy Com­pli­ance Policy 2 — Sup­port­ing Eco­nom­ic Growth

2.3 Oth­er tour­ism and leis­ure developments

Devel­op­ment which enhances form­al and inform­al recre­ation and leis­ure facil­it­ies; tour­ism and leis­ure-based busi­ness activ­it­ies and attrac­tions; and improved oppor­tun­it­ies for respons­ible out­door access will be sup­por­ted where:

a) It has no adverse envir­on­ment­al or amen­ity impacts on the site or neigh­bour­ing areas; and

b) It makes a pos­it­ive con­tri­bu­tion to the exper­i­ence of vis­it­ors; and

c) It sup­ports or con­trib­utes to a year- round eco­nomy. The wood­land track is already estab­lished and forms a char­ac­ter­ist­ic ele­ment of both farm­ing and forestry oper­a­tions in this area. The con­struc­tion of the track is sym­path­et­ic to its coun­tryside loc­a­tion and the Applic­a­tion incor­por­ates improve­ments to the track, both in terms of drain­age and revegetation.

The devel­op­ment forms part of a wider net­work of paths and pos­it­ively con­trib­utes to the require­ments and object­ives of Policy 2.3, not only allow­ing hill­side man­age­ment, but also com­ply­ing with the stated cri­ter­ia for improved oppor­tun­it­ies for respons­ible out­door access. The devel­op­ment is con­sidered to com­ply. Policy 3 — Design and Placemaking

3.1 Place­mak­ing All devel­op­ments must meet the six qual­it­ies of suc­cess­ful places, i.e. be dis­tinct­ive, safe and pleas­ant, wel­com­ing, Woodland/​hillside tracks are estab­lished and tra­di­tion­al fea­tures of the hill­side and is a char­ac­ter­ist­ic ele­ment of both farm­ing and forestry oper­a­tions in this area. The con­struc­tion of the track is sym­path­et­ic to its coun­tryside loc­a­tion. In addi­tion, the Applic­a­tion fur­ther pro­poses to improve the VAT No. 355945463 Registered in Scot­land No. SC668532

About Plan­ning adapt­able, resource effi­cient; and easy to move around and beyond.

3.3 Sus­tain­able Design All devel­op­ment pro­pos­als must also be designed to:

a) Min­im­ise the effects of the devel­op­ment on cli­mate change in terms of sit­ing and construction…

b) Be sym­path­et­ic to the tra­di­tion­al pat­tern and char­ac­ter of the sur­round­ing area…

c) Use mater­i­als and land­scap­ing that will com­ple­ment the set­ting of development;

d) Make sus­tain­able use of resources, includ­ing the min­im­isa­tion of energy, waste and water usage…

h) main­tain and max­im­ise all oppor­tun­it­ies for respons­ible out­door access, includ­ing links into the exist­ing path net­work and ensur­ing con­sist­ency with the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Core Paths Plan. Policy 4 — Nat­ur­al Heritage

4.4 Pro­tec­ted spe­cies a Devel­op­ment that would have sig­ni­fic­ant adverse effect on any European Pro­tec­ted Spe­cies will not be permitted.

4.5 Oth­er biod­iversity Devel­op­ment that would have a sig­ni­fic­ant adverse effect on spe­cies lis­ted in Sched­ules 2 and 4 of The Con­ser­va­tion (Nat­ur­al Hab­it­ats &c.) Reg­u­la­tions 1994 (as amended in Scot­land) will not be permitted…

4.6 All devel­op­ment Where there is evid­ence to indic­ate that a access through new drain­age meas­ures and fur­ther planting/​vegetation.

The mater­i­als used are appro­pri­ate for the track’s con­struc­tion, and loc­al mater­i­als have been used. The devel­op­ment also con­trib­utes to the object­ive to ​“Main­tain and max­im­ise all oppor­tun­it­ies for respons­ible out­door access…” con­trib­ut­ing to place­mak­ing object­ives, in addi­tion to its use for hill­side man­age­ment. The devel­op­ment is con­sidered to com­ply. There are no Inter­na­tion­al des­ig­na­tions, Nation­al des­ig­na­tions or Wood­lands cov­er­ing the site. The devel­op­ment does not impact on European Pro­tec­ted Spe­cies or spe­cies lis­ted in Sched­ules 2 and 4 of The Con­ser­va­tion (Nat­ur­al Hab­it­ats &c.) Reg­u­la­tions 1994. The devel­op­ment would not effect on hab­it­ats or spe­cies iden­ti­fied in the Cairngorms Nature Action Plan, UK Biod­iversity Action Plan, Birds of Con­ser­va­tion Con­cerns or by Scot­tish Min­is­ters through the Scot­tish Biod­iversity List, includ­ing any cumu­lat­ive. The Applic­ant is con­tent, through plan­ning con­di­tion, to under­take a spe­cies sur­vey if pro­tec­ted or pri­or­ity hab­it­at or spe­cies con­sidered appro­pri­ate. VAT No. 355945463 Registered in Scot­land No. SC668532

About Plan­ning may be present on, or adja­cent to, a site, The devel­op­ment is con­sidered to com­ply. or could be adversely affected by the devel­op­ment, the developer will be required to under­take a focused sur­vey of the area’s nat­ur­al envir­on­ment to assess the effect of the devel­op­ment on it and to sub­mit a species/​habitat pro­tec­tion plan where neces­sary to set out meas­ures to avoid, reduce or mit­ig­ate such effects. Policy 5 — Landscape

5.1 Spe­cial Land­scape Qual­it­ies There will be a pre­sump­tion against any devel­op­ment that does not con­serve or enhance the land­scape char­ac­ter and spe­cial land­scape qual­it­ies of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park includ­ing wild­ness and the set­ting of the pro­posed development.

Devel­op­ment that does not com­ple­ment or enhance the land­scape char­ac­ter of the Nation­al Park and the set­ting of the pro­posed devel­op­ment will be per­mit­ted only where:

a) Any sig­ni­fcant adverse effects on the spe­cial land­scape qual­it­ies of the Nation­al Park are clearly out­weighed by social or eco­nom­ic bene­fits of nation­al import­ance; and The devel­op­ment does not under­mine the require­ment to con­serve and enhance the land­scape char­ac­ter and spe­cial qual­it­ies of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park. Part (b) of the Policy requires that ​“All the adverse effects on the set­ting of the pro­posed devel­op­ment have been min­im­ised and mit­ig­ated through appro­pri­ate sit­ing, lay­out, scale, design and con­struc­tion to the sat­is­fac­tion of the plan­ning author­ity.” The Applic­a­tion pro­poses remedi­al works to improve drain­age and also pro­poses fur­ther planting/​vegetation to ensure that any poten­tial adverse effects have been mit­ig­ated. The path is loc­ated close to the val­ley floor and is not con­sidered to fall with an ​‘open moor­land area’ as defined in the CNPLDP.

b) All the adverse effects on the set­ting of The devel­op­ment is con­sidered to com­ply. the pro­posed devel­op­ment have been min­im­ised and mit­ig­ated through appro­pri­ate sit­ing, lay­out, scale, design and con­struc­tion to the sat­is­fac­tion of the plan­ning authority.

5.2 Private roads and ways

There will be a pre­sump­tion against new private roads and ways in open moor­landl areas. Open Moor­lands are defined here as ​“the land out­side enclosed farm­land, semi-improved grass­land and forests, and includes VAT No. 355945463 Registered in Scot­land No. SC668532

About Plan­ning heath­er moor­land and mont­ane hab­it­ats found on high ground across the Nation­al Park”.

Policy 10 — Resources

10.1 Water resources All devel­op­ment should:

a) Min­im­ise the use of treated and abstrac­ted water; and

b) Treat sur­face water and foul water dis­charge sep­ar­ately. Devel­op­ment is required to treat sur­face water in accord­ance with the cur­rent CIRIA SuDS Manu­al; and

c) Have no sig­ni­fic­ant adverse impact on exist­ing or private water sup­plies or wastewa­ter treat­ment ser­vices; and…

d) Not res­ult in the deteri­or­a­tion of the cur­rent or poten­tial eco­lo­gic­al status or pre­ju­dice the abil­ity to restore water bod­ies to good eco­lo­gic­al status; and

e) Not res­ult in the deteri­or­a­tion of water resources used for amen­ity or recre­ation; and

f) Avoid unac­cept­able det­ri­ment­al impacts on the water envir­on­ment and seek to improve the water envir­on­ment where pos­sible. Devel­op­ment should demon­strate that any impacts (includ­ing cumu­lat­ive) can be adequately mit­ig­ated. Exist­ing and poten­tial impacts up and down­stream of the devel­op­ment, par­tic­u­larly in respect of poten­tial flood­ing, should be addressed; and

g) Avoid unac­cept­able det­ri­ment­al impacts on ground­wa­ter depend­ent ter­restri­al ecosystems.

There is a pre­sump­tion against the The Saddle Remedi­ation Pro­pos­als Sup­port­ing Inform­a­tion provided with this Applic­a­tion iden­ti­fies pro­pos­als to retro-fit new cul­verts to relieve water enter­ing the track side drain sys­tem. The report also con­firms that work will be under­taken to repair dam­age to the track­side drain caused by erosion, repro­fil­ing of the drain­age chan­nel will be under­taken using excess soil from the down­hill side of the track. the drain line formed will also be back-filled and the sur­face revegetated.

Policy 10.1 seeks to pro­tect the qual­ity of the water envir­on­ment and its eco­lo­gic­al interest. It includes a pre­sump­tion against cul­vert­ing of water courses and unne­ces­sary engin­eer­ing works in the water environment.

Although there is a pre­sump­tion against cul­vert­ing, the CNPA, in their apprais­al of Plan­ning Applic­a­tion Ref: 2020/0037/NOT, for the wider net­work of paths through Cad­dam Wood, acknow­ledge that cul­verts are a stand­ard tech­nique in track con­struc­tion and are also con­trolled by SEPA licencing.

The Report of Hand­ling con­cluded that ​“While the use of cul­verts is cost effect­ive, they can also avoid more intrus­ive engin­eer­ing works required to bridge water courses. With the site spe­cif­ic con­struc­tion meth­od state­ment to ensure no impacts on water qual­ity the pro­pos­al will com­ply with Policy 10: Resources of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan 2015.” Policy 10 of the CNPLDP, 2021 reflects the 2015 policy. VAT No. 355945463 Registered in Scot­land No. SC668532

About Plan­ning cul­vert­ing of water­courses and any unne­ces­sary engin­eer­ing works in the water envir­on­ment. An appro­pri­ately sized buf­fer strip will be required to be retained around all water fea­tures and designed and man­aged to con­trib­ute pos­it­ively The devel­op­ment is con­sidered to com­ply. towards sus­tain­able place­mak­ing. SEPA’s Flood Map iden­ti­fies that the pro­posed site is not in an iden­ti­fied flood risk area, and there­fore there are no flood risk issues asso­ci­ated with the proposal.

10.2 Flood­ing All devel­op­ment should:

a) Be free from Medi­um to High risk of flood­ing from all sources tak­ing into account pre­dicted impacts of cli­mate change; and

b) Not increase the risk of flood­ing else­where; and

c) Not add to the area of land that requires flood pre­ven­tion meas­ures; and

d) Not affect the abil­ity of the func­tion­al flood­plain to store or move flood waters… It is con­sidered that the pro­pos­al accords with the pro­vi­sions of the Devel­op­ment Plan and that there are mater­i­al con­sid­er­a­tions, includ­ing the Sup­ple­ment­ary Guid­ance rel­ev­ant to the above policies, in sup­port of the proposal.

Hav­ing regard to the above, the Applic­ant would be grate­ful if Plan­ning Per­mis­sion is accord­ingly granted.

If you have any quer­ies on this applic­a­tion or would wish to dis­cuss any aspects fur­ther please do not hes­it­ate to con­tact me.

Yours sin­cerely,

Emelda Maclean MRTPI About Plan­ning Ltd VAT No. 355945463 Registered in Scot­land No. SC668532

Glen Clova Estate The Saddle – Track Remedi­ation Pro­pos­als Sup­port­ing Inform­a­tion Feb­ru­ary 2021 Pre­pared by: Dav­id Bruce BSC Tilhill Forestry 1 Duck­burn Park Stirl­ing Road Dun­blane FK15 OEW T: E: Tilhill FORESTRY

Sum­mary This doc­u­ment provides inform­a­tion relat­ing to the remedi­ation of track and drain­age work car­ried out at the above loc­a­tion This note will detail: a) How eroded track side drains will be addressed b) How spoil on the lower side of the track will be reduced and made less prom­in­ent with­in the sur­round land­scape c) How pro­filed spoil pos­i­tion next to a drain­age chan­nel will be addressed to reduce its visu­al prom­in­ence and the site veget­ated using loc­ally robbed turves or seeded using an upland spe­cies grass seed mix identic­al or sim­il­ar to Sco­tia Seeds High­land Grass­land Mix at the man­u­fac­tur­ers recom­men­ded spe­cific­a­tion: d) How cul­verts will be placed to reduce speed and energy of water in the track­side drain. This work­ing doc­u­ment will detail the oper­a­tions set out as follows.

1. Retro-fit­ting new culverts
2. Remedi­al works to the track­side drain­age channel

3. Res­tor­a­tion of drain­age chan­nel 1| Page

4. Retro-fit­ting new cul­verts The track length is approx­im­ately 409m in length, approx­im­ately 130m of the track is in excess of 7% slope. At the time of install­a­tion, he track was con­struc­ted with as dug mater­i­al, a top side drain was cut and over­bur­den and spoil arrange on the down­hill side of the track. No cul­verts were installed dur­ing con­struc­tion. The absence of cul­verts has allowed both track sur­face and upslope water to enter the track side drain sys­tem. This has been allowed to pick up speed and energy which has caused erosion. Install­a­tion of cul­verts The spa­cing of ditch relief cul­verts will be provided at all the low points along the track sec­tions, and at suf­fi­cient fre­quency to relieve the track­side ditch of excess­ive water. Relief cul­vert spa­cing has been estim­ated as 1 cul­vert for every 100m of track. How­ever the pro­posed fre­quency of cul­verts has been increased 1 every 50m due to the ter­rain and the sur­round­ing soil mois­ture. The base of the cul­vert will be excav­ated approx­im­ately 100mm beneath the cul­vert level. The cul­vert will be placed on to a firmed bed with mater­i­al no more than 100mm in dia­met­er. Approx­im­ately 300mm will be left between the pipe and trench edge to allow for back­filling and firm­ing in 150mm lay­ers. A thick lay­er of good stone approx­im­ately 250 – 300mm will be used to cap the cul­vert in order to spread the weigh. Stone revet­ments will be con­struc­ted to guide water into the pipe on the upstream side of the cul­vert using loc­ally won stone, from the lower slope spoil. Head­walls will be con­struc­ted upstream and down­stream of the cul­vert to provide sup­port for the cul­vert and new track using suit­able stone also won loc­ally. 2| Page

Site — Glen Clova Estate — The Saddle Fill trench with good stone. Fill in 150mm lay­ers, firm­ing down between each lay­er to ensure that it is well packed. Site — Glen Clova Estate — The Saddle Retro-fit­ting Cul­verts Ensure at least 20m of veget­ated run-off ground between cul­verts and water courses Date 11/03/2021 Silt trap Relief Cul­vert Install­a­tion The pipe need to lie on a 100mm firmed bed of good qual­ity mater­i­al Cul­vert Install­a­tion — Plan CUL­VERT TRACK Drain flow dir­ec­tion Silt trap Tilhill FORESTRY A thick lay­er of good stone is needed above the pipe to spread the load. Con­sult man­u­fac­tur­ers guid­ance for install­a­tion Trench is wide enough to back­fill pipe. Cut trench to allow at least 30cm between pipe and side of trench to give enough space to com­press stone. Tilhill FORESTRY Large rocks and excess verge mater­i­al used to cre­ate drain blocks to enable water to be dir­ec­ted through cul­verts 3| Page

1. Remedi­al works to track side drain­age Work will be under­taken to repair dam­age to the track­side drain caused by erosion, repro­fil­ing of the drain­age chan­nel will be under­taken using excess spoil from the down­hill side of the track and angles of the upper bat­ter repro­filed. Large rock mater­i­al will be util­ised to dir­ect water in to cul­verts and arm head walls. Site — Glen Clova Estate — The Saddle Drain Repair Tilhill FORESTRY Lower side verge prom­in­ent due to pro­fil­ing and high amount of large rocks Forestry Track Con­struc­tion — BEFORE — Drain­age Repairs Drain­age chan­nel has widened and deepened due to erosion Date 11/03/2021 Track edges and middle begin­ning to nat­ur­ally reve­get­ate 4|Page

Site — Glen Clova Estate — The Saddle Drain Repair Repro­filed lower verge to be reve­get­ated with robbed turves or seed Date 11/03/2021 Tilhill FORESTRY Forestry Track Con­struc­tion — AFTER — Drain­age Repairs Repro­file drain from excess spoil on the down hill side of the track Track edges and middle begin­ning to nat­ur­ally reve­get­ate 5| Page

3 Res­tor­a­tion of drain­age chan­nel This drain line is vis­ible with­in the wider land­scape due to the drain spoil being formed in a hard lin­ear line. In order to remedi­ate this issue it is pro­posed the drain will simply be back-filled and the sur­face reve­get­ated. If appro­pri­ate a land drain­age pipe could be installed dur­ing the back-filling pro­cess. Site — Glen Clova Estate — The Saddle Drain Back­filling Date 11/03/2021 Refilling Drain­age chan­nel BEFORE REMEDI­ATION Drain spoil heaped and pro­filed mak­ing it vis­ible in the sur­round­ing land­scape Tilhill FORESTRY Drain­age Chan­nel 6|Page

Site — Glen Clova Estate — The Saddle Drain Back­filling Tilhill FORESTRY Refilling Drain­age chan­nel AFTER REMEDI­ATION Reve­get­ate using exist­ing turves where avail­able or re-seed Date 11/03/2021 Drain­age Chan­nel Install land drain­age pipe if required Back fill drain using pro­file spoil 7| Page