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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 9 28/06/2019

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

FOR DECISION

Title: LOC­AL DEVEL­OP­MENT PLAN 2015 – ACTION PRO­GRAMME REVIEW Pre­pared by: Dan Har­ris, Plan­ning Man­ager Katie Crerar, Plan­ning Officer

Pur­pose of Report

To ask the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee to approve the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan Action Pro­gramme Review 2019.

Recom­mend­a­tion

That the Plan­ning Com­mit­tee approve the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan Action Pro­gramme Review 2019.

Back­ground

1. All plan­ning author­it­ies are required to pub­lish an Action Pro­gramme to set out how the policies and pro­pos­als with­in their Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan (LDP) will be imple­men­ted. Action Pro­grammes are required to include a list of actions required to deliv­er each of the policies and pro­pos­als con­tained in the LDP, details of who will carry out the actions, and the likely times­cales for under­tak­ing the actions. Action Pro­grammes must be updated and repub­lished at least every two years.

2. The Cairngorms Nation­al Park LDP was adop­ted in March 2015, and an Action Pro­gramme was sub­sequently pub­lished in June 2015. CNPA have com­mit­ted to pub­lish­ing Action Pro­gramme updates annu­ally and there­fore a first year inter­im review was pub­lished in 2016 fol­lowed by a full review in 2017. This full review provides a fur­ther update on deliv­ery of the LDP.

3. This Action Pro­gramme Review provides up-to-date inform­a­tion about the deliv­ery of sites and policies with­in the LDP. These updates are all set out in the pro­posed Action Pro­gramme Review 2019 which is attached at Appendix 1.

Action Pro­gramme Deliv­ery Priorities

1. The 2017 Action Pro­gramme Review iden­ti­fied a series of deliv­ery pri­or­it­ies for ²⁰¹⁸⁄₁₉ against which CNPA was lis­ted as the lead agency. Pro­gress against these pri­or­it­ies is out­lined in Table 1.

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 9 28/06/2019

Table I Action Pro­gramme Deliv­ery Pri­or­it­ies ²⁰¹⁸⁄₁₉ Sum­mary of Pro­gress 1 Sim­pli­fy mech­an­isms for secur­ing plan­ning Only lim­ited pro­gress made with oblig­a­tions and reduce need for plan­ning this improve­ment as staff agree­ments. short­ages meant resources were focused on core functions

Estab­lish­ing sim­pler, cheap­er and faster ways of secur­ing neces­sary plan­ning oblig­a­tions. 2 Devel­op and deliv­er a schools engage­ment This pri­or­ity was delayed as a / involve­ment pro­gramme res­ult of the plan­ning ser­vices’ con­tri­bu­tion to the CNPA host­ing As part of the CNPA’s approach to involving of the Euro­parc con­fer­ence in young people dur­ing the year of young people. 2018. The young­est mem­ber of the plan­ning team was heav­ily involved in devel­op­ing the Euro­parc Youth Mani­festo over a peri­od of weeks. The Euro­parc Con­fer­ence also involved loc­al schools. 3 Plan and deliv­er work­shop on nat­ur­al Only lim­ited pro­gress made with her­it­age with SNH, SEPA and Loc­al this improve­ment as staff Author­it­ies short­ages meant resources were focused on core functions.

Shar­ing good prac­tice and ensur­ing con­sist­ent applic­a­tion of policy and prac­tice across the Nation­al Park. 4 Increase par­ti­cip­a­tion and engage­ment in Com­plete. the con­sulta­tion on the pro­posed Loc­al The CNPA pro­moted the Devel­op­ment Plan pro­posed LDP con­sulta­tion through drop-in ses­sions and a Using what we have learnt from recent sig­ni­fic­ant web and social media con­sulta­tions to increase informed com­ment on cam­paign. The drop-in ses­sions import­ant issues. were an effect­ive way of inform­ing people of the LDP pro­cess and to provide cla­ri­fic­a­tion about the pro­cess. The web and social media cam­paigns have sig­ni­fic­antly increased the light engage­ment with the pro­cess and provided people with easy-to-reach inform­a­tion: • Dur­ing the cam­paign we pub­lished 94 posts to Face­book, Twit­ter and Ins­tagram and uploaded 22 dif­fer­ent videos to You­Tube and Face­book. • Col­lect­ively these posts made

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 9 28/06/2019

Table I Action Pro­gramme Deliv­ery Pri­or­it­ies ²⁰¹⁸⁄₁₉ Sum­mary of Pro­gress • 153,782 impres­sions across the 3 net­works (Face­book, Twit­ter, Ins­tagram). • The videos received 30,169 views across all 4 net­works (includes You­Tube). • Our posts were engaged with (liked, clicked, shared) 10,067 times — res­ult­ing in an over­all engage­ment rate of 7% for non- video based posts. • Engage­ment with all cam­paign con­tent, include video, res­ul­ted in an engage­ment rate of 26%. • Our cam­paign con­tent was shared 189 times on Face­book and Twit­ter and we received 64 com­ments. Although it is not pos­sible to quanti­fy the bene­fits of this in terms of form­al responses to the pro­posed LDP, it is con­trib­ut­ing to bet­ter informed indi­vidu­als and audi­ences. 5 Under­take Town Centre Health checks Com­plete. Health checks were under­taken in July 2018 and are repeated every 2 years. 6 Review Action Pro­gramme Under­taken annually.

1. New deliv­ery pri­or­it­ies for ²⁰¹⁹⁄₂₀ are iden­ti­fied in sec­tion 2 of the 2018 Action Pro­gramme Review. These are sum­mar­ised in Table 2.

Table 2 Pro­posed Action Pro­gramme Deliv­ery Pri­or­it­ies ²⁰¹⁹⁄₂₀ 1 Sim­pli­fy mech­an­isms for secur­ing plan­ning oblig­a­tions and reduce need for plan­ning agreements.

Estab­lish­ing sim­pler, cheap­er and faster ways of secur­ing neces­sary plan­ning oblig­a­tions. 2 Devel­op and deliv­er a schools engage­ment / involve­ment programme.

In addi­tion to work with loc­al sec­ond­ary Schools, we will ask the emer­ging Cairngorms Youth Action Group to help co-design a pro­gramme with young people

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 9 28/06/2019

Table 2 Pro­posed Action Pro­gramme Deliv­ery Pri­or­it­ies ²⁰¹⁹⁄₂₀ 3 Plan and deliv­er work­shop on nat­ur­al her­it­age with SNH, SEPA and Loc­al Authorities

Shar­ing good prac­tice and ensur­ing con­sist­ent applic­a­tion of policy and prac­tice across the Nation­al Park to be held autumn 2019. 4 Under­take a mon­it­or­ing scheme on hol­i­day and second home own­er­ship, changes of use from res­id­en­tial prop­erty and impacts on communities.

The devel­op­ment of the LDP has increased aware­ness of the changes in use of res­id­en­tial prop­erty to short term hol­i­day let­ting prop­erty. The data avail­able through coun­cil tax and non-domest­ic rates records requires some ground troth­ing for accur­acy and the CNPA will under­take some addi­tion­al mon­it­or­ing of newly com­pleted hous­ing devel­op­ments. We will also pub­lish a Plan­ning Advice Note to explain the rules on use and changes of use. 5 Review Action Programme

1. In addi­tion, Sec­tion 7 out­lines pro­gress in deliv­er­ing the sites that are alloc­ated for devel­op­ment with­in the LDP. It was updated in 2018 to present inform­a­tion on a set­tle­ment basis for clar­ity, thus provid­ing inform­a­tion for likely infra­struc­ture require­ments and all hous­ing, exist­ing per­mis­sions, eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment, tour­ism and com­munity sites togeth­er with a set­tle­ment map.

2. This review provides pro­gress updates on all alloc­ated sites with­in the LDP, includ­ing details of recent plan­ning per­mis­sions. Last year it was iden­ti­fied that more advice on developer oblig­a­tions was required to provide clar­ity to officers and developers about where developer oblig­a­tions will / will not be required. The likely oblig­a­tions required are set out under the ​‘Anti­cip­ated Infra­struc­ture & Afford­able Hous­ing Require­ments’ head­ing with­in each set­tle­ment and these have also been updated to reflect the most recent school roll fore­casts which have res­ul­ted in some changes.

Next Steps

1. The Action Pro­gramme Review 2019 will be pub­lished on the CNPA web­site. Cop­ies will also be sent to Scot­tish Min­is­ters and placed in loc­al lib­rar­ies. The Plan­ning Com­mit­tee will receive a fur­ther pro­gress report and Action Pro­gramme Review in June 2020.

Dan Har­ris & Katie Crerar June 2019 danharris@​cairngorms.​co.​uk & katiecrerar@​cairngorms.​co.​uk

Appen­dices

1. Pro­posed Action Pro­gramme Review, June 2019