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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 9 Appendix I 28/08/2020

AGENDA ITEM 9

APPENDIX I

PRO­POSED ACTION PRO­GRAMME REVIEW AUGUST 2020

Action Pro­gramme August 2020

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan 2015 Cairngorms Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan

SEC­TION I : PUR­POSE & FORMAT Pur­pose This Action Pro­gramme has been pre­pared to sup­port the deliv­ery of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan 2015 (LDP). It iden­ti­fies the actions which will help imple­ment the vis­ion, strategy and pro­pos­als of the LDP. It is the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Authority’s (CNPA) main deliv­ery tool for the LDP and will be used to help mon­it­or progress.

The Town and Coun­try Plan­ning (Devel­op­ment Plan­ning) (Scot­land) Reg­u­la­tions 2008 requires Action Pro­grammes to set out: • A list of actions required to deliv­er each of the Plan’s key policies and pro­pos­als; • The organ­isa­tion who is to carry out the action; and • The broad times­cale for car­ry­ing out each action.

How­ever, Action pro­grammes are now being pro­moted as a key tool for facil­it­at­ing and sup­port­ing devel­op­ment deliv­ery. Scot­tish Plan­ning Policy (2014) emphas­izes that ​‘Action pro­grammes should be act­ively used to drive deliv­ery of planned devel­op­ments: to align stake­hold­ers, phas­ing, fin­an­cing and infra­struc­ture invest­ment over the long term’ (para. 31).

The CNPA wants the Action Pro­gramme to be a ​‘live’ doc­u­ment that changes and adapts over time. This review will be the final Action Pro­gramme for the cur­rent LDP (2015), how­ever CNPA will con­tin­ue to review and pub­lish Action Pro­gramme updates for the next LDP each year in order to reflect changes on the ground, demon­strate pro­gress or prob­lems in deliv­ery, incor­por­ate new actions and provide up to date inform­a­tion on the status and pro­gress of sites over time for com­munit­ies and developers.

The CNPA will also use the Action Pro­gramme to build a clear­er evid­ence base for the each of the alloc­ated sites in the LDP, identi­fy­ing con­straints, or costs of devel­op­ing sites and ways of resolv­ing them. That inform­a­tion will be updated in each review of the Action Pro­gramme and avail­able for developers and communities.

Format The Action Pro­gramme has six main sections:

SEC­TION	PAGE
1. The Pur­pose and Format	1
2. Deliv­ery Priorities	5
3. Nation­al Projects	7
4. Infra­struc­ture Deliv­ery and oth­er Projects	9
5. Deliv­ery of LDP Policy Framework	13
6. Mon­it­or­ing	18
7. Devel­op­ment Land Sup­ply Information	19

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SEC­TION I : PUR­POSE & FORMAT The role of part­ners The Action Pro­gramme is pre­pared by the CNPA as the author­ity that pre­pares the LDP for the Nation­al Park. How­ever, the CNPA is only one of many pub­lic bod­ies, private developers, landown­ers and com­munit­ies who are respons­ible for deliv­er­ing the actions therein contained.

For example, most loc­al author­it­ies com­bine the roles of plan­ning author­ity with hous­ing author­ity, roads author­ity, edu­ca­tion author­ity and deliv­ery of ser­vices, each of which may help deliv­er the LDP for an area. In the Cairngorms Nation­al Park, the loc­al author­it­ies con­tin­ue to do all those roles, with the CNPA shar­ing parts of the plan­ning author­ity role. This means that our Action Pro­gramme relies heav­ily on the work of the loc­al author­it­ies and oth­er pub­lic bod­ies as well as the own­ers of land, private developers and com­munit­ies. There are too many to identi­fy in detail, but some of the key roles are sum­mar­ised in the suceed­ing table:

Sum­mary of part­ner roles Part­ner | Respons­ible for: —-| — - Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity | • Coordin­a­tion of deliv­ery, mon­it­or­ing and review of the LDP and Action Pro­gramme. | • Sig­ni­fic­ant plan­ning con­sents, mon­it­or­ing and enforce­ment, deliv­ery of an effi­cient plan­ning ser­vice for cus­tom­ers. | • Provid­ing sup­port and small-scale fund­ing for cor­por­ate pri­or­it­ies. Loc­al Author­it­ies | • Plan­ning con­sents, mon­it­or­ing and enforce­ment, deliv­ery of effi­cient plan­ning ser­vice for cus­tom­ers. | • Hous­ing author­ity role includ­ing Hous­ing Strategies, Stra­tegic Hous­ing Invest­ment Plans, assess­ing Hous­ing Need and Demand. Loc­al Author­it­ies | • Build­ing Con­trol, Roads, Waste, Edu­ca­tion, Care ser­vices, Leis­ure, Busi­ness sup­port and Envir­on­ment­al Health roles. Scot­tish Water | • Infra­struc­ture for and con­nec­tions to pub­lic water sup­plies and waste water sys­tems. | Full details at www​.scot​tish​wa​ter​.co​.uk Scot­tish Nat­ur­al Her­it­age | • Advice and sup­port on Nat­ur­al Her­it­age in pre­par­a­tion of LDP and in plan­ning applic­a­tions for plan­ning author­it­ies and developers. | • Reg­u­la­tion of Spe­cies Licences. | Full details in SNH Ser­vice State­ment Scot­tish Envir­on­ment Pro­tec­tion Agency | • Advice and sup­port on Envir­on­ment­al issues in pre­par­a­tion of LDP and in plan­ning applic­a­tions for plan­ning author­it­ies and developers. | • Envir­on­ment­al Reg­u­la­tions and Licens­ing. | Full details at SEPA web­site Oth­er pub­lic bod­ies | • Advice and sup­port dur­ing pre­par­a­tion of LDP and in plan­ning applic­a­tions for plan­ning author­it­ies and developers. | • Poten­tial invest­ment in pro­jects or pro­grammes that sup­port or are con­nec­ted to the LDP. Developers, (includ­ing com­munity groups/​pub­lic bod­ies when act­ing as a developer | • Under­tak­ing work to make effect­ive plan­ning applic­a­tions, includ­ing seek­ing pre-applic­a­tion advice. | • Com­pli­ance with plan­ning con­sents and con­di­tions. | • Secur­ing oth­er required con­sents. | • Inform­ing the plan­ning author­ity of pro­gress or prob­lems with sites. | • Secur­ing fund­ing, man­age devel­op­ment pro­cess till com­ple­tion and dis­pos­al or sale of prop­er­ties. Com­munit­ies and oth­er groups | • Enga­ging in LDP pre­par­a­tion and con­sulta­tions. | • Devel­op­ing and review­ing Com­munity Action Plans. | • Estab­lish­ing com­munity devel­op­ment com­pan­ies to coordin­ate and devel­op projects.

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SEC­TION I : PUR­POSE & FORMAT Links to oth­er Plans and Strategies Review of the Action Pro­gramme The Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan and Action Pro­gramme help to deliv­er the plans and strategies of many organ­isa­tions and for many issues across the Nation­al Park. In par­tic­u­lar, the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan sets the con­text for the LDP and is the plan that coordin­ates the work of many part­ners in the Nation­al Park. The imple­ment­a­tion of the LDP and Action Pro­gramme con­trib­ute to many of the Part­ner­ship Plan’s out­comes and pro­grammes. Oth­er plans or strategies pre­pared for the Cairngorms Nation­al Park that will also sup­port the imple­ment­a­tion of the LDP include:

• Nation­al Park Eco­nom­ic Strategy • The Nation­al Park Cap­it­al Invest­ment Plan • Tour­ism Action Plan for the Cairngorms Nation­al Park • Cairngorms Nature Strategy and Action Plan • Core Paths Plan

Oth­er plans and strategies that are closely linked include: • The loc­al author­it­ies’ Hous­ing Strategies, and Stra­tegic Hous­ing Invest­ment Plans • Region­al Trans­port Strategies • Area Waste Plans • Loc­al Author­ity Cap­it­al Invest­ment Plans • Com­munity Action Plans • Plans of Com­munity Plan­ning Part­ner­ships • Catch­ment Man­age­ment Plans

The CNPA will review and repub­lish the Action Pro­gramme annu­ally. We expect the Action Pro­gramme to evolve over the life of the LDP as it is imple­men­ted, as sites move for­ward, and part­ners focus work around the Action Programme.

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SEC­TION I : PUR­POSE & FORMAT Abbre­vi­ations used in the Action Programme

There are a num­ber of organ­isa­tions and terms that are fre­quently used in the Action Pro­gramme. Their names or terms have been abbre­vi­ated at some points in the doc­u­ment and are lis­ted below.

Organ­isa­tions: AC Aber­deen­shire Coun­cil ACC Aber­deen City Coun­cil CBP Cairngorms Busi­ness Part­ner­ship CLP Cairngorms Learn­ing Part­ner­ship FLS Forestry and Land Scot­land FES Forestry Enter­prise Scot­land HES His­tor­ic Envir­on­ment Scot­land HIE High­lands and Islands Enter­prise HITRANS High­lands and Islands Trans­port Part­ner­ship HLF Her­it­age Lot­tery Fund JHI James Hut­ton Insti­tute LA’s all con­stitu­ent Loc­al Author­it­ies MC Moray Coun­cil NFUS Nation­al Farm­ers Uni­on Scot­land PKC Perth & Kinross Coun­cil RSPB Roy­al Soci­ety for the Pro­tec­tion of Birds SCI Spey Catch­ment Ini­ti­at­ive SEPA Scot­tish Envir­on­ment Pro­tec­tion Agency SS Sportscotland

SNH Scot­tish Nat­ur­al Her­it­age SSE Scot­tish & South­ern Energy SW Scot­tish Water SYHA Scot­tish Youth Hos­telling Asso­ci­ation TGDT Tomin­toul and Glen­liv­et Devel­op­ment Trust TGLP Tomin­toul and Glen­liv­et Land­scape Part­ner­ship TGWG Tomin­toul and Glen­liv­et Wild­life Group THC The High­land Council

Oth­er abbre­vi­ations: FRA Flood Risk Assess­ment HRA Hab­it­ats Reg­u­la­tions Assess­ment LDP Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan NFM Nat­ur­al flood man­age­ment SEA Stra­tegic Envir­on­ment­al Assess­ment WWTW Waste Water Treat­ment Works

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SEC­TION 2: DELIV­ERY PRI­OR­IT­IES TABLE 1.1 DELIV­ERY PRI­OR­IT­IES FOR ²⁰¹⁹⁄₂₀ Action | Lead Agency | Oth­er Part­ners | Progress —-| — -| — -| — -

1. Sim­pli­fy mech­an­isms for secur­ing plan­ning oblig­a­tions and reduce need for plan­ning agree­ments. Estab­lish­ing sim­pler, cheap­er and faster ways of secur­ing neces­sary plan­ning oblig­a­tions. | CNPA | LA’s | In pro­gress. Work has been under­taken through the pre­paraion of the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan 2020 which will be adop­ted in 2020.
2. Devel­op and deliv­er a schools engage­ment / involve­ment prgramme. 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. | CNPA / Loc­al Schools | | In pro­gress. A school engage­ment event had to be post­poned due to Cov­id-19 and will be res­ched­uled at a later date.
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. | CNPA | SNH, SEPA and LA’s | Com­pleted in 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 truth­ing 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. | CNPA | LA’s | Await­ing key inform­a­tion from Inside Airb­nb who have been com­mis­sioned to gath­er 2020 data for the CNPA and Scot­land as a whole which CNPA will analyse.
5. Review Action Pro­gramme | CNPA | | Completed

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SEC­TION 2: DELIV­ERY PRI­OR­IT­IES TABLE 1.2 DELIV­ERY PRI­OR­IT­IES FOR ²⁰²⁰⁄₂₁ Action | Lead Agency | Oth­er Part­ners | Timescales —-| — -| — -| — -

1. Sim­pli­fy mech­an­isms for secur­ing plan­ning oblig­a­tions and reduce the need for plan­ning agree­ments – Estab­lish­ing sim­pler, cheap­er and faster ways of secur­ing neces­sary plan­ning oblig­a­tions | CNPA | LA’s | ²⁰²⁰⁄₂₁
2. Improve Mon­it­or­ing of Plan­ning Applic­a­tions — Improve data on exist­ing con­sents to aid with mon­it­or­ing and deliv­ery of LDP | CNPA | LA’s | ²⁰²⁰⁄₂₁
3. Devel­op and deliv­er a youth engage­ment / involve­ment pro­gramme – Roll out a pro­gram of work to engage young people, includ­ing the involve­ment of the Cairngorms Youth Action Group, in the plan­ning sys­tem. | CNPA / Loc­al Schools | | ²⁰²⁰⁄₂₁
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. | CNPA | LA’s | ²⁰²⁰⁄₂₁
5. Review Action Pro­gramme | CNPA | | Annually

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SEC­TION 3 : NATION­AL PRO­JECTS TABLE 2: NATION­AL PRO­JECTS — iden­ti­fied through the Scot­tish Government’s Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work (NPF3) Pro­pos­al | Descrip­tion | Times­cale | Lead Agency | Oth­er Part­ners | Notes —-| — -| — -| — -| — -| — - A9 Dualling | Trans­port Scot­land is tak­ing for­ward design and con­struc­tion of the A9 Dualling between Perth and Inverness.

The pro­ject is being developed with a view to com­plet­ing the over­all dualling to:

• improve the oper­a­tion­al per­form­ance of the A9 by redu­cing jour­ney times and improv­ing jour­ney time reli­ab­il­ity, • improve safety for motor­ised and non-motor­ised users by redu­cing acci­dent sever­ity and redu­cing driver stress, • facil­it­ate act­ive travel with­in the cor­ridor, and • improve integ­ra­tion with pub­lic trans­port facil­it­ies. | By 2025 | Trans­port Scot­land | | The Scot­tish Min­is­ters have com­mit­ted to com­plet­ing the dualling by 2025. Con­struc­tion of the sec­tion between Kin­craig and Dalraddy was com­pleted in 2017 and con­struc­tion of the sec­tion between Lun­carty and Pass of Birnam is under­way. Inform­a­tion about the pro­gramme is avail­able on Trans­port Scotland’s web site at https://www.transport.gov.scot/projects/a9-dualling-perth-to-inverness/

CNPA and High­land Coun­cil removed objec­tions to the Dalraddy to Slo­chd sec­tion of A9 Dualling when Trans­port Scot­land agreed to fund the plan­ning and devel­op­ment of an altern­at­ive non-motor­ised user route between Aviemore and Car­rbridge. An ini­tial feas­ib­il­ity study for the route, under­taken pri­or to Trans­port Scotland’s com­mit­ment to fund its devel­op­ment, is pub­lished here: https://www.transport.gov.scot/media/45737/aviemore-to-carrbridge-non-motorised-user-nmu-route-study-baseline-assessment-report-body.pdf

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SEC­TION 3 : NATION­AL PRO­JECTS TABLE 2: NATION­AL PRO­JECTS — iden­ti­fied through the Scot­tish Government’s Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work (NPF3) Pro­pos­al | Descrip­tion | Times­cale | Lead Agency | Oth­er Part­ners | Notes —-| — -| — -| — -| — -| — - High­land Main­line Rail improve­ments | Trans­port Scot­land, on behalf of Scot­tish Min­is­ters is work­ing with Net­work Rail to devel­op phase two of the scheme which aims to deliver:

• an hourly ser­vice; • aver­age jour­ney time reduc­tions of around 10 minutes between Inverness and Perth exten­ded to Edin­burgh and Glas­gow; and • more effi­cient freight oper­a­tions that bet­ter respond to the needs of cus­tom­ers. | By 2020 | Trans­port Scot­land | Net­work Rail | Phase 2 com­pleted in May 2019 with the anti­cip­ated out­puts (set out in the descrip­tion) due to be achieved in May 2020.

Fur­ther inform­a­tion avail­able at: https://www.transport.gov.scot/projects/highland-main-line/project-details/

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SEC­TION 4 : INFRA­STRUC­TURE DELIV­ERY AND OTH­ER PRO­JECTS The infra­struc­ture pro­jects which are needed to deliv­er the vis­ion of the LDP and pro­jects that will sup­port it. TABLE 3: INFRA­STRUC­TURE DELIV­ERY AND OTH­ER PRO­JECTS Settlement/​Pro­ject Name | Infra­struc­ture / Pro­ject Descrip­tion | Status / Con­straints | Times­cale | Lead Agency | Oth­er Part­ners —-| — -| — -| — -| — -| — - HIGH­LAND | | | | | Review of Badenoch and Strath­spey Health­care facil­it­ies | • As part of a NHS High­land review of health­care facil­it­ies pro­vi­sion in Badenoch & Strath­spey, the exist­ing hos­pit­al facil­it­ies in Grant­own-on-Spey and Kin­gussie are being replaced with a new com­munity hos­pit­al facil­ity in Aviemore. | • The future uses of the old hos­pit­al facil­it­ies and land still to be iden­ti­fied. | Plan­ning per­mis­sion (2018/0311/DET) now approved for the site and fund­ing secured.

Site cur­rently under con­struc­tion. | TBC | NHS High­land | CNPA, THC, Med­ic­al Prac­tices, Com­munit­ies Strath­spey Rail­way Exten­sion to Grant­own | • Strath­spey Rail­way Company’s pro­ject ​‘Rails to Grant­own’, is focussed on bring­ing steam rail­way to Grant­own-on-Spey from Broom­hill. Pro­ject also requires cross­ing of A95 Trunk road, with oppor­tun­it­ies for upgrad­ing a sec­tion of the A95 and off-road link between Dul­nain Bridge and Grant­own-on-Spey. | EIA scop­ing com­pleted and pre-applic­a­tion advice has been sought. TAWS applic­a­tion com­pris­ing the road cross­ing, rail­way and rail­way sta­tion to be sub­mit­ted. | Unknown | Strath­spey Rail­way Co | Trans­port Scotland

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SEC­TION 4 : INFRA­STRUC­TURE DELIV­ERY AND OTH­ER PRO­JECTS Settlement/​Pro­ject Name | Infra­struc­ture / Pro­ject Descrip­tion | Status / Con­straints | Times­cale | Lead Agency | Oth­er Part­ners —-| — -| — -| — -| — -| — - HIGH­LAND | | | | | Devel­op­ment of ​‘Act­ive Aviemore’ Pro­ject | The Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment has agreed to fund the con­struc­tion of a new £15m hos­pit­al in Aviemore. CNPA has iden­ti­fied this invest­ment as a cata­lyst to deliv­er oth­er stra­tegic devel­op­ments includ­ing Act­ive Aviemore.

This pro­ject aims to improve Aviemore’s walk­ing and cyc­ling infra­struc­ture, pro­mote act­ive travel and enhance the integ­ra­tion of social and health care facil­it­ies. | The pro­ject has now been divided into a num­ber of inde­pend­ent pro­jects to be delivered as follows:

Grampi­an Road/​Dalfaber Drive Junc­tion — redesign and construction.

Path upgrade from primary School to new Hos­pit­al site (rail under­pass). Design and construction.

Segreg­ated cycle paths on Grampi­an Road. | 2020 – 2021 | THC | Sus­trans | 2020 – 2021 | Hitrans | CNPA/AVCC | 2022 – 2025 | CNPA | Sus­trans. THC, Hitrans, AVCC

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SEC­TION 4 : INFRA­STRUC­TURE DELIV­ERY AND OTH­ER PRO­JECTS TABLE 3: INFRA­STRUC­TURE DELIV­ERY AND OTH­ER PRO­JECTS Settlement/​Pro­ject Name | Infra­struc­ture / Pro­ject Descrip­tion | Status / Con­straints | Times­cale | Lead Agency | Oth­er Part­ners —-| — -| — -| — -| — -| — - HIGH­LAND | | | | | An Camas Mòr | Devel­op­ment of a new com­munity (1500 houses; asso­ci­ated busi­ness, com­munity facil­it­ies and pro­vi­sion of infra­struc­ture). | Infra­struc­ture required will include:

• Road infra­struc­ture, access and con­nectiv­ity; • Ser­vi­cing infra­struc­ture e.g. water, waste water, elec­tri­city; and • Nat­ur­al her­it­age, land­scape and recre­ation. | Applic­a­tion under Sec­tion 42 to vary con­di­tion I of Plan­ning Per­mis­sion in Prin­ciple (CNPA Ref 09/155/CP) recom­men­ded for approv­al in August 2017.

Sec­tion 75 signed and per­mis­sion issued in April 2019. | 2019 onwards | An Camas Mòr LLP/ THC/ Aviemore Com­munity Coun­cil | CNPA, SNH

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SEC­TION 4 : INFRA­STRUC­TURE DELIV­ERY AND OTH­ER PRO­JECTS TABLE 3: INFRA­STRUC­TURE DELIV­ERY AND OTH­ER PRO­JECTS Settlement/​Pro­ject Name | Infra­struc­ture / Pro­ject Descrip­tion | Status / Con­straints | Times­cale | Lead Agency | Oth­er Part­ners —-| — -| — -| — -| — -| — - HIGH­LAND | | | | | Cairngorm Moun­tain and Glen­more | Strategy approved by CNPA Board in Septem­ber 2016 and by all pub­lic sec­tor part­ners later in 2016.

Devel­op­ment of a Strategy and Action Plan to:-

• Enhance the vis­it­or exper­i­ence to match the qual­ity of envir­on­ment. • Enhance hab­it­at and spe­cies con­ser­va­tion on a land­scape scale • Sup­port and enhance the region­al eco­nomy. • Cre­ate out­door learn­ing oppor­tun­it­ies for all. | A num­ber of pro­jects sup­port­ing the deliv­ery of the Strategy include: • The re-devel­op­ment of the vis­it­or man­age­ment pri­or­it­ies for Glen­more (FLS). • Applic­a­tion to Rur­al Tour­ism Infra­struc­ture Fund to build a mul­ti­use path link­ing car parks & and vis­it­or sites in Glen­more (CNPA) has been approved. THC road con­sent has been obtained and CNPA has secured an addi­tion­al £150k to sup­port the pro­ject. Delays due to Cov­id-19 mean that devel­op­ment is not sched­uled for autumn 2020. • HIE appoin­ted con­sult­ants are revalu­at­ing recom­mend­a­tions on how to improve the year round exper­i­ence at Cairngorm Moun­tain. Stage I pub­lic con­sulta­tion on improve­ments to the area took place in Feb­ru­ary with stage 2 sched­uled for August 2020.

HIE has sup­por­ted Aviemore and Glen­more Com­munity Trust to devel­op options for poten­tial com­munity involve­ment. | 2015 onwards | HIE, Forestry and Land Scot­land, Aviemore & Glen­more Com­munity Trust, SYHA | CNPA, The High­land Coun­cil, SS, SNH, HIE, High­life Highland

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SEC­TION 5 : DELIV­ERY OF LOC­AL DEVEL­OP­MENT PLAN POLICY FRAME­WORK TABLE 4: DELIV­ERY OF LOC­AL DEVEL­OP­MENT PLAN POLICY FRAME­WORK Policy | Times­cale | Descrip­tion | Lead Agency | Oth­er Part­ners | Notes —-| — -| — -| — -| — -| — - All Policies | 2015 onwards | Pub­lish annu­al LDP mon­it­or­ing and review report. | CNPA | | Pub­lish annu­ally New Hous­ing Devel­op­ment | ²⁰¹⁶⁄₁₇ onwards | Ongo­ing review of LDP alloc­ated sites, con­sents and land sup­ply effect­ive­ness and con­straints. This will be done through the annu­al updates of the Action Pro­gramme and Hous­ing Land Audits (HLA). | CNPA | Developers and Landown­ers, LA’s and Com­munit­ies | Ini­tial review under­taken — will be kept under review. HLA’s pub­lished annu­ally. | Ongo­ing | Under­take detailed com­munity-based assess­ments of hous­ing needs as appro­pri­ate where com­munit­ies have developed struc­tures to take forward.

In addi­tion, assist com­munit­ies act­ively look­ing for ​‘self-help’ solu­tions and work with these com­munit­ies to help deliv­er spe­cif­ic pro­jects. | Hous­ing Enabling Organ­isa­tion and Com­munity sup­port organ­isa­tions | CNPA, LA’s, Hous­ing Enabling Orgs, Developers, Landown­ers, Com­munity Groups | Work ongo­ing with five com­munit­ies cur­rently tak­ing for­ward pro­jects at vari­ous stages of devel­op­ment to deliv­ery com­munity owned hous­ing. New Hous­ing Devel­op­ment | 2015 onwards | Build the case for more invest­ment in Afford­able Hous­ing with­in the Nation­al Park as part of devel­op­ment of Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan. | CNPA and LA’s | Developers, com­munit­ies | New tar­gets for afford­able hous­ing set out in the approved NPPP 2017. To be delivered through next LPD (2020). | ²⁰¹⁶⁄₁₇ onwards | Under­take a search for and review of poten­tial sites for 100% afford­able hous­ing and afford­able hous­ing through cross-sub­sidy. | CNPA | LAs, Hous­ing Enabling Orgs, Developers, Landown­ers, Com­munit­ies | Con­tinu­ally invest­ig­at­ing poten­tial oppor­tun­it­ies as they arise.

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SEC­TION 5 : DELIV­ERY OF LOC­AL DEVEL­OP­MENT PLAN POLICY FRAME­WORK TABLE 4: DELIV­ERY OF LOC­AL DEVEL­OP­MENT PLAN POLICY FRAME­WORK Policy | Times­cale | Descrip­tion | Lead Agency | Oth­er Part­ners | Notes —-| — -| — -| — -| — -| — - Sup­port­ing Eco­nom­ic Growth | 2015 onwards | Review demand and sup­ply for busi­ness land and units with­in the Nation­al Park. | CNPA | LA’s, CBP | Addi­tion­al detail on avail­able busi­ness land sup­ply included in this report and fur­ther mon­it­or­ing will be under­taken. | 2015 onwards | Identi­fy poten­tial spec­u­lat­ive busi­ness sites for next LDP. | CNPA | LA’s, HIE, Developers, Landown­ers, CBP | ​‘Call for Sites and ideas’ under­taken to inform next LDP. A num­ber of pre­ferred busi­ness sites iden­ti­fied for inclu­sion in Pro­posed LDP. | 2015 onwards | Review Town Centre Health Checks. | CNPA | | Under­taken every 2 years. Com­pleted in July 2018 but unable to be com­pleted in 2020 due to Cov­id-19. Sus­tain­able Design | 2016 | Pro­mote good prac­tice in terms of design through the pre­par­a­tion of Plan­ning Advice, hold­ing Design Awards and using case stud­ies. | CNPA | LA’s, Developers and Com­munit­ies | Awards under­taken in 2016 and CNPA web­site high­lights case stud­ies. Fur­ther ini­ti­at­ives to pro­mote good design in the Park con­tin­ue to be progressed.

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SEC­TION 5 : DELIV­ERY OF LOC­AL DEVEL­OP­MENT PLAN POLICY FRAME­WORK TABLE 4: DELIV­ERY OF LOC­AL DEVEL­OP­MENT PLAN POLICY FRAME­WORK Policy | Times­cale | Descrip­tion | Lead Agency | Oth­er Part­ners | Notes —-| — -| — -| — -| — -| — - Nat­ur­al Her­it­age | 2015 onwards | The Caper­cail­lie Frame­work pro­ject is based around the fol­low­ing objectives:

• To build sup­port for caper­cail­lie con­ser­va­tion, help­ing people to under­stand and value their nat­ur­al her­it­age, the bene­fits it can bring and how their actions can affect it; • To work with com­munit­ies in the Nation­al Park to devel­op sus­tain­able approaches to recre­ation, meet­ing res­id­ents’ and vis­it­ors’ needs whilst min­im­ising impact on caper­cail­lie; and • To devel­op a pro­gramme of con­ser­va­tion action includ­ing hab­it­at expan­sion and improve­ment to sup­port the long-term sur­viv­al of the spe­cies. | CNPA | SNH, RSPB, Landown­ers | HLF bid approved for 5 year pro­ject fund­ing. This will com­prise an 18 month Devel­op­ment phase and 3.5 year Deliv­ery phase. | 2015 onwards | Identi­fy phos­phate thresholds for fresh­wa­ter pearl mus­sels in river SACs. Adopt thresholds in man­age­ment of water abstrac­tion, waste water dis­charge through licens­ing and reg­u­la­tions. | Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment, Water SNH, SEPA | CNPA, Scot­tish | Ongo­ing dis­cus­sions at UK level so status for Scot­land yet to be con­firmed. Land­scape | Ongo­ing | Con­tin­ue to pro­mote Park Land­scape Toolkit. | CNPA | | Ongo­ing | Ongo­ing | Mon­it­or con­sents and devel­op­ment on the ground. | CNPA | | Ongoing

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SEC­TION 5 : DELIV­ERY OF LOC­AL DEVEL­OP­MENT PLAN POLICY FRAME­WORK TABLE 4: DELIV­ERY OF LOC­AL DEVEL­OP­MENT PLAN POLICY FRAME­WORK Policy | Times­cale | Descrip­tion | Lead Agency | Oth­er Part­ners | Notes —-| — -| — -| — -| — -| — - Sit­ing & Design of Digit­al Com­mu­nic­a­tions Equip­ment | Pro­mote Land­scape Toolkit for the Park to developers | CNPA | Mobile oper­at­ors, Com­munity Broad­band Scot­land | Work is ongo­ing to review and devel­op the land­scape toolkit and will form part of an updated web­site. The toolkit con­tin­ues to be widely pro­moted. Renew­able Energy | 2015 onwards | Mon­it­or con­sents and devel­op­ment on the ground | CNPA | | A pro­ject has been under­taken to map the loc­a­tion and status (scop­ing applic­a­tion, approved or installed) of all wind­farms with­in 20km of the Nation­al Park bound­ary. Fur­ther detailed work ongo­ing. Cul­tur­al Her­it­age | 2015 onwards | Feed into and sup­port the review of the con­ser­va­tion areas and identi­fy if any new con­ser­va­tion areas are required. | CNPA | LA’s | Focus on High­land and Moray areas. Grantown’s Con­ser­va­tion area has recently been reviewed and adop­ted. Resources | 2015 onwards | Mon­it­or­ing con­sents and devel­op­ment on the ground. | CNPA | SEPA, SNH, SW and Catch­ment Man­age­ment Partnerships |

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SEC­TION 5 : DELIV­ERY OF LOC­AL DEVEL­OP­MENT PLAN POLICY FRAME­WORK TABLE 4: DELIV­ERY OF LOC­AL DEVEL­OP­MENT PLAN POLICY FRAME­WORK Policy | Times­cale | Descrip­tion | Lead Agency | Oth­er Part­ners | Notes —-| — -| — -| — -| — -| — - Developer Con­tri­bu­tions | ²⁰¹⁷⁄₁₈ | Review­ing inform­a­tion to inform developer oblig­a­tions require­ments in terms of edu­ca­tion (school roll fore­casts), health­care and com­munity facil­it­ies to give developers most up to date pos­i­tion on the con­tri­bu­tions required. Updates on the con­tri­bu­tions required for each set­tle­ment are now set out in this Action Pro­gramme. | CNPA | LA’s | Detailed evid­ence gath­er­ing on the require­ments for oblig­a­tions towards edu­ca­tion and health care across the Park has been under­taken and is being used intern­ally. This is being fur­ther developed through the next LDP (2020) and asso­ci­ated guid­ance. Com­munity Inform­a­tion | 2015 onwards | Sup­port com­munit­ies to achieve their com­munity object­ives through Com­munity Action Plan­ning and Com­munity Plan Part­ner­ships. | CNPA | Com­munity Sup­port Organ­isa­tions | Ongoing

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SEC­TION 6 : MON­IT­OR­ING The routine mon­it­or­ing of the LDP and Action Pro­gramme. This will be repor­ted in the review of the Action Pro­gramme and oth­er routine mon­it­or­ing reports each year.

TABLE 5: MON­IT­OR­ING Action / Descrip­tion | Times­cale | Lead Agency | Oth­er Part­ners —-| — -| — -| — - Deliv­ery of Action Pro­gramme | Annu­ally | CNPA | LA’s Use of Policies | Annu­ally | CNPA | LA’s Plan­ning Per­mis­sions and Com­ple­tions | Annu­ally | CNPA | LA’s Hous­ing Land Sup­ply & Effect­ive­ness | Annu­ally | CNPA | LA’s Town Centre Health Checks | Every 2 years | CNPA | LA’s SEA — Mon­it­or envir­on­ment­al effects of LDP | Annu­ally | CNPA | Key agen­cies HRA — Mit­ig­a­tion meas­ures and effects on con­ser­va­tion object­ives of European sites | Annu­ally | CNPA | Key agencies

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SEC­TION 7 : DEVEL­OP­MENT LAND SUP­PLY This sec­tion of the Action Pro­gramme is used to assess pro­gress and identi­fy con­straints or bar­ri­ers to devel­op­ment of land and sites for hous­ing, employ­ment and com­munity or oth­er uses. It is set out by set­tle­ment and includes ​‘anti­cip­ated infra­struc­ture & afford­able hous­ing require­ments’ where known which apply at a set­tle­ment level as well as more detailed updates on a site by site basis.

This sec­tion includes all cur­rent alloc­a­tions includ­ing hous­ing, eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment, tour­ism and com­munity. Exist­ing per­mis­sions (iden­ti­fied as ​‘EP’ sites) are also included how­ever some sites have plan­ning per­mis­sion that has been gran­ted over 3 years ago, how­ever in many cases these have been imple­men­ted through the start­ing of con­struc­tion or ser­vi­cing of sites.

Infra­struc­ture require­ments Each site has also been assessed in respect of flood­ing, roads, water & drain­age, elec­tri­city and edu­ca­tion under the infra­struc­ture require­ments head­ing. These have been informed through con­sulta­tion with the rel­ev­ant author­it­ies and each site has been col­our coded to reflect its level of constraint.

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BAL­LATER [Map of Bal­later with key]

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ANTI­CIP­ATED INFRA­STRUC­TURE & AFFORD­ABLE HOUS­ING REQUIRE­MENTS	Detail
Afford­able Housing	All devel­op­ments over 3 units will be required to provide 25% afford­able hous­ing on site. Devel­op­ments of 3 units or less will be required to make a fin­an­cial contribution.
Health­care	Con­tri­bu­tions will be required towards Bal­later Med­ic­al prac­tice to extend the premises.

HOUS­ING SITES	Site require­ments / deliv­er­ab­il­ity	Actions / deliv­er­ables	Times­cales	Pro­gress updates
HI Mon­al­trie Park
Alloc­ated for 50 res­id­en­tial units. Forms part of lar­ger site with over­all capa­city for 250 units. Mas­ter­plan required for whole site.
Own­er / developer: Inver­cauld Estates
Plan­ning status: No cur­rent plan­ning permission.	• Flood risk assess­ment required (FRA) – New flood risk inform­a­tion iden­ti­fies an area of flood­ing in the east of the site.
• Two access roads and foot­path con­nec­tions required.	Pre­par­a­tion of a mas­ter­plan, reflect­ing agreed access points for site and Flood Risk Assessment.	2020/2021	Pre-applic­a­tion dis­cus­sions con­tinu­ing with Aber­deen­shire Coun­cil regard­ing points of access (incl. loc­a­tion of main access road).
Work con­tin­ues on Flood Risk Assess­ment in rela­tion to site access.
Expect­ing Plan­ning Applic­a­tion 2020/2021.

OTH­ER SITES	Type of devel­op­ment	Status / Pro­gress	Total Area (Ha)	Avail­able sup­ply — Est. Ha
EDI: Bal­later Busi­ness Park	Eco­nom­ic	In oper­a­tion / exist­ing use	0.59	0
TI: Cara­van Park	Tour­ism	In oper­a­tion / exist­ing use	2.75	0
TOTAL AVAIL­ABLE ECO­NOM­IC DEVEL­OP­MENT LAND				0

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COM­MUNITY SITES CI: Former School site | Pro­posed / poten­tial use | Status / pro­gress —-| — -| — - | Plan­ning per­mis­sion refused in 2018 for the con­ver­sion of the school and redevel­op­ment of the site to deliv­er 26 afford­able units. Per­mis­sion was then gran­ted at appeal. | An amended applic­a­tion has since been approved (2019/0003/DET) for the con­ver­sion of the school and re-devel­op­ment of the site to form 24 houses. Site clear­ance com­menced. Con­struc­tion began July 2020

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BRAE­MAR [Map of Brae­mar with Key]

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ANTI­CIP­ATED INFRA­STRUC­TURE & AFFORD­ABLE HOUS­ING REQUIRE­MENTS	Detail
Afford­able Housing	All devel­op­ments over 3 units will be required to provide 25% afford­able hous­ing on site. Devel­op­ments of 3 units or less will be required to make a fin­an­cial contribution.
Waste Water Treat­ment Works	Upgrades may be required to increase capacity.

HOUS­ING SITES	Site require­ments / deliv­er­ab­il­ity	Actions / deliv­er­ables	Times­cales	Pro­gress updates
HI Chapel Brae
Alloc­ated for 6 res­id­en­tial units.
Own­er / developer: Mar Estate
Plan­ning Status: No cur­rent permissions.	• No sig­ni­fic­ant infra­struc­ture constraints.
• Small risk of sur­face water flood­ing adja­cent to site.			Own­er is cur­rently explor­ing options for the site.
No pro­gress as of July 2020
EP2/3 St Andrews Ter­race and Kin­drochit Court
Sites have con­sent for a total of 41 res­id­en­tial units: EP2 (30 units) and EP3 (11 units).
Own­er / developer: Gor­don Land Ltd
Plan­ning Status: Full plan­ning per­mis­sion for sites approved April 2014 (07/219/CP and 07/223/CP)				EP2: Plan­ning Applic­a­tion (07/219/CP) for site with­drawn (2016). No update on new applic­a­tion July 2020
EP3: Cur­rently being pro­gressed as a com­munity led hous­ing pro­ject through Brae­mar Com­munity Ltd.
Land trans­fer being pro­gressed and applic­a­tion to Rur­al Hous­ing Fund for both devel­op­ment and cap­it­al costs sub­mit­ted and await­ing a decision.
Next stage will be going out to tender for a design and build. Key con­straint is that RHF is com­ing to an end next year.

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OTH­ER SITES	Type of devel­op­ment	Status / Pro­gress	Total Area (Ha)	Avail­able sup­ply — Est. Ha
EDI: The Ambu­lance Station	Eco­nom­ic	Com­prises 2 sites includ­ing former ambu­lance station.	0.11	0.11
ED2: The Mews	Eco­nom­ic	In oper­a­tion / exist­ing use	0.30	0
TI: Cara­van Park	Tour­ism	In oper­a­tion / exist­ing use	4.62	0
TOTAL AVAIL­ABLE ECO­NOM­IC DEVEL­OP­MENT LAND				0.11

COM­MUNITY SITES	Pro­posed / poten­tial use	Status / progress
CI: Site north of St Andrew’s Terrace	Site provides devel­op­ment oppor­tun­ity to sup­port the sus­tain­able eco­nom­ic sta­bil­ity of the com­munity and provide enhanced com­munity facilities.	Cur­rently green­field. No pro­gress as of July 2020.

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DIN­NET [Map of Din­net with key]

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ANTI­CIP­ATED INFRA­STRUC­TURE & AFFORD­ABLE HOUS­ING REQUIRE­MENTS	Detail
Afford­able Housing	All devel­op­ments over 3 units will be required to provide 25% afford­able hous­ing on site. Devel­op­ments of 3 units or less will be required to make a fin­an­cial contribution.
Health­care	Con­tri­bu­tions may be required towards extend­ing Aboyne Med­ic­al practice.
Waste Water Treat­ment Works	Upgrades may be required to increase capacity.

HOUS­ING SITES	Site require­ments / deliv­er­ab­il­ity	Actions / deliv­er­ables	Times­cales	Pro­gress updates
HI: Land to the West
HI is alloc­ated for 4 res­id­en­tial units.
Own­er / developer: Din­net and Kin­nord Estates
Plan­ning Status: Per­mis­sion gran­ted in prin­ciple (for 3 res­id­en­tial units) Feb 2020 (2019/0285/PPP).	• Part of site lies with­in medi­um like­li­hood of flu­vi­al flood­ing and will require FRA.
• WWTW upgrade may be required.
• Foot­path, street light­ing and speed lim­it should be exten­ded to site.
• Topo­graphy may lim­it deliv­ery of 4 units.	Sub­mis­sion and approv­al of