Kincraig and locality Community Action Plan 2024

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030

Com­piled Spring 2024

Sup­por­ted by Kin­craig & Vicin­ity Com­munity Coun­cil Insh Com­munity Hold­ings Kin­craig Com­munity Hall Alvie Primary School Kin­gussie High School Loc­al Church

Facil­it­ated by Vol­un­tary Action in Badenoch and Strath­spey VABS

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Con­tents

1. Sum­mary 3
2. The Com­munity 4
3. The Pro­cess 5
4. Com­munity Engage­ment 8
5. Sur­vey Responses 9
6. Action Plan – what the com­munity wants 9
7. Spa­tial Pri­or­it­ies 15
8. Next Steps 17
9. Thanks 19
10. Appen­dices 20 i. What do you like about liv­ing in the Kin­craig com­munity area? ii. What changes would you like to see in the com­munity by 2030?

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1. Sum­mary In Spring 2024, Kin­craig & Vicin­ity Com­munity Coun­cil togeth­er with Insh Com­munity Hold­ings, Kin­craig Com­munity Hall and Kin­craig Church, decided that they wished to carry out a review of the com­munity action plan for the vil­lage, which had been pre­vi­ously under­taken in 2011. The pur­pose of revis­it­ing and updat­ing the plan was primar­ily aimed at giv­ing these key com­munity organ­isa­tions, along with a range of oth­er groups in the com­munity, plus pub­lic and private sec­tor stake­hold­ers, a strong man­date to move for­ward with tack­ling cur­rent and emer­ging issues, as well as lead­ing on new com­munity pro­jects, iden­ti­fied as pri­or­it­ies by the res­id­ents of the Kin­craig & Vicin­ity Com­munity Coun­cil area dur­ing the pro­cess in spring 2024.

With sup­port from Vol­un­tary Action in Badenoch & Strath­spey, the com­munity-led steer­ing group, com­pris­ing rep­res­ent­a­tion from the organ­isa­tions lis­ted above, agreed that they would seek the views of loc­al res­id­ents on a num­ber of key ques­tions. This was achieved via a sur­vey which was per­son­ally delivered to every house­hold by volun­teers as a paper copy, which was also access­ible online. In addi­tion, the ques­tions con­tained in the sur­vey were also raised with some tar­geted groups that were iden­ti­fied as being harder to get accurate/​quality inform­a­tion from. This was under­taken by mem­bers of the steer­ing group going out with the sur­vey ques­tions to places and events where it was con­sidered that indi­vidu­als or groups fall­ing into this cat­egory might be approached.

The pro­cess was entitled Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to

1. In pre­vi­ous action plan­ning car­ried out by the com­munit­ies with­in this area, the focus was on activ­ity mostly with a 2 to 3‑year timespan. Giv­en the increased need now to also focus on longer-term goals, par­tic­u­larly in rela­tion to the envir­on­ment and the eco­nomy, res­id­ents and busi­nesses were asked to con­sider where they and the com­munity wanted to be by 2030, so gen­er­at­ing a more exten­ded set of plans and aspirations.

Examples of recent suc­cesses across the com­munit­ies with com­munity-led pro­jects and action plan­ning include: • Devel­op­ment of Insh Com­munity Hold­ings • Par­tial upgrade of the War Memori­al • Exten­sion of Spey­side Way through vil­lage • Improved path net­work • Res­tor­a­tion of winter lights • Intergen­er­a­tion­al school garden pro­ject • Vil­lage fun day • Dragon­fly ponds at Insh • Seni­ors Christ­mas lunch • Aspen plant­ing & rein­stated hedgerows for biodiversity/​green net­works • Fire­wood deliv­ery to all Insh residents

To help add to these achieve­ments, res­id­ents were encour­aged to take part in the com­munity action plan review in 2024. How­ever, this time round people were invited to think not only about what might be achieved togeth­er, but that the pro­jects the vil­lages were being asked to Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030 Page 3 of 24

con­sider, would be ones that would help the area devel­op a more sus­tain­able future. This is set against a back­drop of life post-lock­downs, the chal­lenge of find­ing new volun­teers, plus the chan­ging chan­ging eco­nom­ic as well as the cli­mate and biod­iversity situ­ation we find ourselves in. The Kin­craig and loc­al­ity com­munity action plan­ning pro­cess adhered to the Nation­al Stand­ards for Com­munity Engage­ment to ensure all of the fol­low­ing ele­ments were fully taken into account dur­ing the com­munity-led ini­ti­at­ive: Impact, Com­mu­nic­a­tion, Meth­ods, Work­ing togeth­er, Plan­ning, Sup­port and Inclusion.

See Sec­tion 4. Com­munity Engage­ment for fur­ther details on the 7 Standards.

1. The Com­munity Kin­craig vil­lage (Scot­tish Gael­ic: Ceann na Creige) is loc­ated north of Kin­gussie and south of Aviemore. The set­tle­ment here was ori­gin­ally called Boat of Insh, the name giv­en to the sta­tion that served the vil­lage when the main line rail­way reached this far in 1863. But in 1871 the rail­way com­pany renamed the sta­tion Kin­craig, pos­sibly sig­ni­fy­ing the moment at which the ferry, which until then always used to cross the River Spey just to the east of the vil­lage, was first replaced by a bridge. As happened in oth­er places, the name of the vil­lage fol­lowed the name of the rail­way sta­tion, and ​‘Kin­craig’ it has been ever since.

The vil­lage lies at the side of the former A9 road, the B9152, and close to the cur­rent A9 dual car­riage­way. It is close to Loch Insh which is fed from and drains into the river Spey. The main Perth to Inverness rail­way passes through, although the sta­tion closed in 1965. There is a mix of hous­ing ages and types; Vic­tori­an stone-built cot­tages and vil­las; 1930s ter­races; 1980s’ indi­vidu­ally designed detached houses in their own plots; and estates of detached houses built from the 1990s right up to cur­rent times.

The ​‘com­munity’ that is covered by Kin­craig & Vicin­ity Com­munity Coun­cil is in fact made up of a num­ber of sep­ar­ate vil­lages and set­tle­ments, which include Kin­craig, Insh, Dal­navert, Alvie, Feshiebridge, Lyn­chat, Drumguish, Spey­bank and Inveruglas.

In spite of this geo­graph­ic­al spread, a strong con­nec­tion exists between all of these loc­al­it­ies and Kin­craig vil­lage. Although res­id­ents of the outly­ing set­tle­ments often look to their lar­ger neigh­bours (Aviemore and Kin­gussie) for amen­it­ies and ser­vices, they remain con­nec­ted with the vil­lage due to the strong bonds with the land and the pres­ence there of the vil­lage hall, loc­al primary school, café, church and pub which all play a pivotal role in the social cohe­sion of this scattered com­munity. Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030 Page 4 of 24

Kin­craig Stores and Post Office which traded con­tinu­ously for 120 years, closed in July 2016. It was reopened in June 2019 as the ​‘Old Post Office Café & Gal­lery’. Alvie Primary School is loc­ated at the north end of Kin­craig vil­lage, Loch Insh Out­door Centre about 2 miles south east and The High­land Wild­life Park about 3 miles south west. Dalraddy Hol­i­day Park based in Alvie offers hol­i­day homes, self-cater­ing, tour­ing and camp­ing facilities.

Work­ing the land is still a major way of life and source of employ­ment in the area, although tour­ism is seen as a major driver in the loc­al eco­nomy. Kincraig’s loc­a­tion lends itself well to draw­ing vis­it­ors to this part of the Nation­al Park. For a small sized com­munity, it offers high- end tour­ist attrac­tions, spe­cific­ally the High­land Wild­life Park, Loch Insh Out­door Centre and Dalraddy Hol­i­day Park which bring in vis­it­ors all year round. The mag­ni­fi­cent views in addi­tion to the numer­ous and var­ied recre­ation­al and sport­ing oppor­tun­it­ies, are an import­ant reas­on why people come to vis­it and stay here. Com­munity Organ­isa­tions There are a sig­ni­fic­ant num­ber of com­munity organisations/​groups which work for the bene­fit of the com­munit­ies in and around Kin­craig and are almost entirely run by volun­teers. These include: Kin­craig & Vicin­ity Com­munity Coun­cil, Kin­craig Com­munity Hall, Insh Com­munity Hold­ings and Alvie Primary School Par­ent Coun­cil. Com­munity Assets Kin­craig Com­munity Hall Insh Com­munity Wood­land Loc­al Busi­nesses There are sev­er­al loc­al busi­nesses across dif­fer­ent sec­tors oper­at­ing in the vil­lage, although there is cur­rently no loc­al business/​tourism asso­ci­ation to rep­res­ent the voice of com­mer­cial activ­ity in Kin­craig and locality.

1. The Pro­cess The Kin­craig and loc­al­ity com­munity con­sulta­tion peri­od ran from March to May 2024 and dur­ing this time, the way in which the com­munity action plan­ning pro­cess was car­ried out, broadly fell into four stages. These were:

1) Gath­er­ing Inform­a­tion 2) Data Sort­ing and Col­la­tion 3) Involving People & Refin­ing Ideas 4) Com­munity Action Plan (CAP) doc­u­ment production

With­in the four stages of the pro­cess, the steer­ing group asked the fol­low­ing ques­tions: Gath­er­ing Inform­a­tion What do we want to know? What ques­tions will we ask? What meth­ods will we use? How will we do it? Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030 Page 5 of 24

Data Sort­ing What does it involve? How will we do it? Who will do / assist with this? In what form will we present it back to the com­munity? Involving People & Refin­ing Ideas What stake­hold­er groups do we need to involve? How (& where) will we present the inform­a­tion gathered so far? How will people in the com­munity help refine the inform­a­tion? Who will assist with this? CAP doc­u­ment pro­duc­tion What will it include? Who will put it togeth­er? How will it be presen­ted to the com­munity? What hap­pens to it next?

In addi­tion, the steer­ing group also con­sidered what times­cales and key dates they wanted to aim for and how they would deal with com­mu­nic­a­tions & pub­li­city — ensur­ing that these ele­ments were robust, so the pro­cess was as inclus­ive as it could be. The fifth and most cru­cial stage of the whole action plan­ning ini­ti­at­ive, involves deliv­ery of the plan by the Kin­craig and loc­al­ity com­munit­ies and oth­er stake­hold­ers. Essen­tially this deals with ques­tions such as: Who will take respons­ib­il­ity for the CAP? How will it be driv­en for­ward? How will it be mon­itored and eval­u­ated? There is more detail on how this can be achieved in Sec­tion 8. Next Steps. Gath­er­ing Inform­a­tion There was a lot of dis­cus­sion about the nature and pre­cise word­ing of ques­tions in the sur­vey, as the steer­ing group wanted to revis­it ques­tions asked in pre­vi­ous com­munity-led action plan­ning, to re-estab­lish what spe­cif­ic things people liked about the Kin­craig and loc­al­ity area and wanted to keep in their com­munit­ies. They also wished to encour­age the com­munit­ies to look to a 5 to 10-year hori­zon, and con­sider how they might tackle some of the trick­i­er issues such as care for the envir­on­ment, sup­port­ing young­er and older res­id­ents, employ­ab­il­ity and trans­port. So ques­tions were employed which were broadly framed, to allow respon­ders to bring up a wide range of issues and ideas without being led.

The paper ver­sion covered just two sides of A4 and the sur­vey asked 3 ques­tions: 1) What do you like about liv­ing in the Kin­craig com­munity area? 2) What changes would you like to see for the Kin­craig com­munity area by 2030? (You might want to think about how you as an indi­vidu­al or we as a com­munity can improve our envir­on­ment, address cli­mate change and biod­iversity loss, devel­op our loc­al eco­nomy, increase social and leis­ure oppor­tun­it­ies and loc­al cul­tur­al exper­i­ences.) If you could improve just ONE of these things, what would it be? Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030 Page 6 of 24

3) Are there any new pro­jects (large or small) that you would like to see hap­pen­ing in the com­munity? Or any exist­ing pro­jects that need to be sus­tained? The sur­vey also asked: Would you be will­ing to get involved in any pro­jects you are inter­ested in? YES / NO If Yes, please provide con­tact details.

This last addi­tion­al ques­tion was included to try to encour­age more people to come for­ward to help with pro­jects that were of par­tic­u­lar interest to them, in order to coun­ter­act the reduc­tion in volun­teer num­bers, that had come about in recent years and espe­cially fol­low­ing the ²⁰²⁰⁄₂₁ pan­dem­ic lock­downs. It was decided that all house­holds in the Kin­craig and loc­al­ity area (approx. 530) would receive a paper copy of the sur­vey through their let­ter­box and this was car­ried out by a team of com­munity volun­teers, who over a peri­od of a few days, delivered cop­ies out into all areas of the com­munity. This meth­od helped to deliv­er an inclus­ive pro­cess of com­munity engage­ment, where every­one had the oppor­tun­ity to respond to the sur­vey if they wished and they were able to do this via hard copy, which could be depos­ited back into one of the cent­rally loc­ated sur­vey boxes, or online via QR code which enabled the com­munity to access the sur­vey on a range of devices. Data Sort­ing All of the responses came in either online via Sur­vey Mon­key, by hard copy into CAP-branded boxes left at vari­ous loc­a­tions in the area, or from inform­a­tion col­lated at events put on for spe­cif­ic groups in the vil­lage. Sur­veys were returned from the community’s primary and high school pupils and these responses high­lighted the ideas and opin­ions of young people liv­ing in the area.

Every com­ment was recor­ded and cat­egor­ised, so that every­one would be able to ​‘see’ their voice in the dis­played res­ults. The inform­a­tion was sor­ted into 4 main themes: Social, Envir­on­ment­al, Eco­nom­ic and Cul­tur­al and the num­ber of times a par­tic­u­lar issue or idea was men­tioned was noted, so pri­or­it­ies could rise to the top of the lists in each themed cat­egory. These lists were then pre­pared for dis­play (see Sec­tion 6. Action Plan – what the com­munity wants and Sec­tion 10. Appen­dices), so every mem­ber of the com­munity could see what had been said and get involved in the next stage, when ideas were refined and solu­tions to issues sought. Involving People & Refin­ing Ideas The pro­cess cul­min­ated in the Kin­craig and loc­al­ity area Big Con­ver­sa­tion, which took place on a Fri­day and Sat­urday in May 2024 at Kin­craig Com­munity Hall. At this drop in event, the res­ults were offered back to the com­munity and time giv­en for reflec­tion and dis­cus­sion around the topics.

Dur­ing the event, all of the res­id­ents who atten­ded were asked to con­sider the top pri­or­it­ies that had been iden­ti­fied from the pro­cess under the head­ings of Kin­craig and loc­al­ity area: Socially Con­nec­ted Com­munit­ies Cli­mate Con­scious Com­munit­ies Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030 Page 7 of 24

Eco­nom­ic­ally Thriv­ing Com­munit­ies Cul­tur­ally Vibrant Com­munit­ies They were asked to look at those areas of par­tic­u­lar interest to them and write on action plan tem­plates aimed at refin­ing ideas by look­ing at ques­tions such as: What spe­cif­ic action needs to be taken to achieve this pri­or­ity and Who needs to be involved? CAP doc­u­ment pro­duc­tion All of the com­ments and pieces of inform­a­tion giv­en by the pub­lic dur­ing the Kin­craig and loc­al­ity area Big Con­ver­sa­tion event were col­lec­ted and incor­por­ated into this report, which now belongs to the com­munit­ies in the Kin­craig & Vicin­ity Com­munity Coun­cil area and will be used as the basis for ongo­ing com­munity devel­op­ment over the next 5 – 8 years, with sup­port from the community’s organ­isa­tions and all oth­er rel­ev­ant stake­hold­ers from the pub­lic, private and vol­un­tary sector.

Also a list of all those who came for­ward offer­ing to volun­teer their help with cer­tain pro­jects was com­piled and will be held by the team tak­ing the action plan for­ward (referred to as Team Kin­craig for the pur­poses of this report).

1. Com­munity Engage­ment The Nation­al Stand­ards for Com­munity Engage­ment are good-prac­tice prin­ciples designed to improve and guide the pro­cess of com­munity engagement.

They are clear prin­ciples that describe the main ele­ments of effect­ive com­munity engage­ment. They provide detailed per­form­ance state­ments that every­one involved can use to achieve the highest qual­ity res­ults and the greatest impact.

The stand­ards are par­tic­u­larly help­ful for com­munit­ies — their organ­isa­tions and groups — to help them involve their mem­bers or the wider com­munity in Inclu­sion We will identi­fy and involve the people and organ­isa­tions that are affected by the focus of the engage­ment. Com­mu­nic­a­tion We will com­mu­nic­ate clearly and reg­u­larly with the people, organ­isa­tions and com­munit­ies affected by the engage­ment. Impact We will assess the impact of the engage­ment and use what has been learned to improve our future com­munity engage­ment. Sup­port We will identi­fy and over­come any bar­ri­ers to par­ti­cip­a­tion. Plan­ning There is a clear pur­pose for the engage­ment, which is based on a shared under­stand­ing of com­munity needs and ambi­tions. Meth­ods We will use meth­ods of engage­ment that are fit for pur­pose. Work­ing Togeth­er We will work effect­ively togeth­er to achieve the aims of the engage­ment. shap­ing the ser­vices and changes they need, and to make sure they accur­ately rep­res­ent mem­bers’ or the community’s views in the decision-mak­ing pro­cesses. Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030 Page 8 of 24

1. Sur­vey Responses Thanks go to the 189 res­id­ents from Kin­craig, Insh, Alvie, Dal­navert, Lyn­chat, Drumguish, Feshiebridge and Spey­bank who con­trib­uted so mean­ing­fully and thought­fully to the com­munity sur­vey – this num­ber rep­res­ents 28% of the community’s pop­u­la­tion and includes responses from school age res­id­ents. Also to the people who atten­ded the Big Con­ver­sa­tion drop-in event at the com­munity hall over the two days.

For a full list of what came out of the sur­vey responses, see Sec­tion 10. Appen­dices (list of appen­dices below). These show all com­ments made by the com­munity in answer to the sur­vey ques­tions, pri­or­it­ised in order of the num­ber of people who men­tioned them.

Appendix I What do you like about liv­ing in the Kin­craig com­munity area? Appendix ii What changes would you like to see for the Kin­craig com­munity area by 2030?

1. Action Plan – what the com­munity wants Pro­ject Themes and Pri­or­it­ies The CAP sets out the community’s vis­ion for the longer term (up to 10 years) with more detailed activ­ity across the 4 spe­cified themes: A Socially Con­nec­ted Com­munity A Cli­mate Con­scious Com­munity An Eco­nom­ic­ally Thriv­ing Com­munity A Cul­tur­ally Vibrant Com­munity itemising pri­or­ity out­comes and actions which are shown in the rel­ev­ant tables below.

It is import­ant to note that some of the pro­ject out­comes will be a ​“quick win” where­as oth­ers will some­times take sig­ni­fic­antly more time to plan and execute. To achieve res­ults and out­comes in the short, medium/​longer term each high pri­or­ity project/​outcome will have its own activ­ity plan which will be Spe­cif­ic, Meas­ur­able, Achiev­able, Real­ist­ic and Timely (SMART) and determ­ined and agreed in the first part of the CAP implementation.

The 4 themes were taken and put into sep­ar­ate group­ings, show­ing what the pri­or­it­ies are for each theme. With­in each pri­or­ity, pro­jects have been lis­ted that have been drawn from the high pri­or­it­ies that came out of the sur­vey data. Fur­ther views and inform­a­tion for each pri­or­ity were sought from those who atten­ded the drop-in events and sug­ges­ted actions, togeth­er with any addi­tion­al inform­a­tion are out­lined below each sec­tion. Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030 Page 9 of 24

KIN­CRAIG CC AREA: SOCIALLY CON­NEC­TED COM­MUNIT­IES Pri­or­ity: Improve our pub­lic trans­port • E‑bus ser­vice run­ning between Aviemore/​Kincraig/​Kingussie to help people access jobs, ser­vices, recre­ation. • Com­munity trans­port for loc­al older adults. Pri­or­ity: Com­munity Hall • Make it more dis­abled friendly. • Explore envir­on­ment­ally friendly energy for the hall. • Install car E‑charger/​s. • Invest­ig­ate use of hall toi­lets for vis­it­ors in sum­mer months. • Install motorhome waste dis­pos­al point. Pri­or­ity: Young People • A facil­ity for teen­agers to meet up and social­ise. • Upgrade to play park.

PRI­OR­ITY: IMPROVE OUR PUB­LIC TRANS­PORT E‑bus ser­vice run­ning between Aviemore/​Kincraig/​Kingussie to help people access jobs, ser­vices, recre­ation. • • • • Sched­ule needs to be reli­able and at times that fit with community’s needs. On demand ser­vice? Talk with B&S Com­munity Con­nXions to invest­ig­ate fur­ther. Loc­ally fun­ded minibus – who would man­age it? Need to identi­fy poten­tial need and take up of an improved ser­vice. Com­munity trans­port for loc­al older adults. • Work with B&S Com­munity Con­nXions to explore & cov­er required need in the com­munity. PRI­OR­ITY: COM­MUNITY HALL Make it more dis­abled friendly. • • Increase size of dis­abled toi­let to include wheel­chair. Replace/​repair slabs on access to hall. Explore envir­on­ment­ally friendly energy for the hall. • Invest­ig­ate options and pos­sible fund­ing sources. Install car E‑charger/​s. • What would be the bene­fit to loc­als? Invest­ig­ate use of hall toi­lets for vis­it­ors in sum­mer months. • Would need increased maintenance/​cleaning/​funds Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030 Page 10 of 24

Install motorhome waste dis­pos­al point. • Too close to houses? Maybe sign­post to Kin­gussie or Dalraddy PRI­OR­ITY: YOUNG PEOPLE A facil­ity for teen­agers to meet up and social­ise. • • Com­munity gym (could be used by all ages). Invite loc­al young people to a meet­ing to get their ideas and involve them in a project/​s. Upgrade to play park. • Bal­ance bike area for tod­dlers. KIN­CRAIG CC AREA: CLI­MATE CON­SCIOUS COM­MUNIT­IES Pri­or­ity: Improve loc­al path net­works (Act­ive Travel) • Badenoch Way through Insh and Inver­uglas • Path from Insh House to where cycle path runs par­al­lel to Uath Lochan lane, so walk­ers and cyc­lists can stay off the lane and avoid tour­ist traffic and tim­ber lor­ries. • Safer walk to school route • Weather­proof bridge between Mac­Bean & rest of vil­lage. Very slip­pery in wet/​winter • Linked up cycle path between the bridge and Loch Insh Water­s­ports • Traffic lights on Spey Bridge to help traffic flow and for safety of walk­ers & cyc­lists • • • Foot­path up Suie Hill for people to exper­i­ence the newly planted wood­land – like path up Cre­ag Beag behind Kin­gussie Improve step access under rail­way bridge Repair overgrown/​damaged foot­paths by shinty pitch and on road­side to Loch Insh • Lane lead­ing to Spey­bank Walk need­ing repair. Pri­or­ity: Pro­vi­sion of com­munity owned green spaces to improve biod­iversity • Allot­ments • Com­munity Orch­ard & Com­munity Garden • Green Gym • Wild­flower areas / Hedges. PRI­OR­ITY: IMPROVE LOC­AL PATH NET­WORKS (ACT­IVE TRAVEL) Improve loc­al paths as lis­ted where pos­sible. • • • • • • Badenoch Way through Insh and Inver­uglas. Path from Insh House to where cycle path runs par­al­lel to Uath Lochan lane, so walk­ers and cyc­lists can stay off the lane and avoid tour­ist traffic and tim­ber lor­ries. Safer walk to school route. Weather­proof bridge between Mac­Bean & Suidhe Cres­cent. Very slip­pery in wet/​winter. Linked up cycle path between the bridge and Loch Insh Out­door Centre. Traffic lights on Spey Bridge to help traffic flow and for safety of walk­ers & cyc­lists. Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030 Page 11 of 24

• • • • Foot­path up Suie Hill for people to exper­i­ence the newly planted wood­land – like path up Cre­ag Beag behind Kin­gussie. Improve step access under rail­way bridge. Repair overgrown/​damaged foot­paths by shinty pitch and on road­side to Loch Insh. Lane lead­ing to Spey­bank Walk need­ing repair. PRI­OR­ITY: PRO­VI­SION OF COM­MUNITY OWNED GREEN SPACES TO IMPROVE BIOD­IVERSITY • Allot­ments • Com­munity Orch­ard & Com­munity Garden • Green Gym • Wild­flower areas / Hedges. KIN­CRAIG CC AREA: ECO­NOM­IC­ALLY THRIV­ING COM­MUNIT­IES Pri­or­ity: Revis­it poten­tial for com­munity-run shop or pop up • Could be held at the hall (reg­u­larly?) • identi­fy the level of need for and poten­tial sus­tain­ab­il­ity • what would it sell? Pri­or­ity: Reg­u­lar event/​s to sup­port cir­cu­lar eco­nomy eg passing on second hand items, repair café, spare veg & flower plants • could this pri­or­ity be linked to a com­munity-run or pop up shop? Pri­or­ity: Find a use for the old A9 com­plex beside the gar­age • used for a shop (farm shop) • busi­ness units (com­mer­cial / small indus­tri­al) • identi­fy the level of need for and poten­tial usage of this space PRI­OR­ITY: REVIS­IT POTEN­TIAL FOR COM­MUNITY-RUN SHOP OR POP UP • • • • • Invest­ig­ate the level of need for and poten­tial sus­tain­ab­il­ity – looked into a shop before and showed unlikely to be viable, but pop up may be dif­fer­ent. Look into loc­a­tion: hall, tele­phone exchange, Insh church, else­where. What would it sell — gro­cer­ies, farm shop, artis­an products? See cir­cu­lar eco­nomy (below) PRI­OR­ITY: REG­U­LAR EVENTS TO SUP­PORT CIR­CU­LAR ECO­NOMY eg passing on second hand items, repair café, spare veg & flower plants • Could this pri­or­ity be linked to a com­munity-run or pop up shop? Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030 Page 12 of 24

PRI­OR­ITY: FIND A USE FOR THE OLD A9 COM­PLEX BESIDE THE GAR­AGE Used for a shop • Farm shop Busi­ness units (com­mer­cial / small indus­tri­al) • Assess level of need and interest with loc­al traders. • Some units for com­munity use. Identi­fy the level of need for and poten­tial usage of this space • Work with loc­al busi­nesses and THC. • Only has tem­por­ary plan­ning per­mis­sion. • Pos­sible spot for rewild­ing or just kept as green space. KIN­CRAIG CC AREA: CUL­TUR­ALLY VIBRANT COM­MUNIT­IES Pri­or­it­ies: Kin­craig Rein­state Kin­craig train sta­tion as a stop Improve the Brae Bus stop at new houses, near school Improve traffic safety Pri­or­it­ies: Insh • More reg­u­la­tion of tim­ber traffic through the area. • • Encour­age folk to stop park­ing on road verges. Sup­port Insh com­munity to main­tain its croft­ing her­it­age, pro­jects to improve biod­iversity and man­age cli­mate change. Pri­or­it­ies: Drumguish • Repair para­pet of Tromie Bridge. • Improve vis­ib­il­ity for vehicles approach­ing B970 from Drumguish. • Sign ​‘passing places — no park­ing’ on access road to Drumguish. Repair notice­board at Drumguish. Pri­or­ity: Spey Bank • Install a defib­ril­lat­or for Spey­bank. PRI­OR­ITY: KIN­CRAIG • • Rein­state Kin­craig train sta­tion as a stop: work with High­land Coun­cil to approach Sco­tRail. Improve the Brae. • Bus stop at new houses, near school. • Improve traffic safety: pres­sure on High­land Coun­cil to install speed lim­it sign. PRI­OR­ITY: INSH • More reg­u­la­tion of tim­ber traffic through the area. Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030 Page 13 of 24

• • • Approach tim­ber com­pan­ies to help repair road verges. Encour­age folk to stop park­ing on road verges. Flash­ing speed sign for both ends of Insh vil­lage. Sup­port Insh com­munity to main­tain its croft­ing her­it­age, pro­jects to improve biod­iversity and man­age cli­mate change. PRI­OR­ITY: DRUMGUISH • Repair para­pet of Tromie Bridge. • • no park­ing’ on access road to Drumguish. • Improve vis­ib­il­ity for vehicles approach­ing B970 from Drumguish. Sign ​‘passing places Repair notice­board at Drumguish. PRI­OR­ITY: SPEY­BANK • Install a defib­ril­lat­or at Spey­bank. Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030 Page 14 of 24

1. Spa­tial Pri­or­it­ies The maps below illus­trate the spa­tial pro­pos­als to help real­ise the com­munity vis­ion and Com­munity Action Plan. They dis­play com­ments which were provided by loc­al res­id­ents and busi­nesses dur­ing the two-day Big Con­ver­sa­tion drop-in event. They refer to the pri­or­it­ies that have come out of the Com­munity Action Plan (CAP) responses and help express the community’s aspir­a­tions and solu­tions for devel­op­ment and use of land with­in the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan. This reflects the loc­al plan­ning policy which aims to cre­ate sus­tain­able, live­able and pro­duct­ive places as expressed in Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 4 (2023). Kin­craig loc­al­ity CAP map

Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030 Page 15 of 24

Insh loc­al­ity CAP map

The maps show the com­munit­ies’ ideas and pri­or­it­ies for the future devel­op­ment of the Kin­craig, Insh and oth­er loc­al­it­ies, as well as help­ing the com­munit­ies to devel­op and deliv­er their own pro­jects. The pur­pose of the maps is to: • • • • Com­ple­ment the CAP by show­ing how the Kin­craig and Insh com­munit­ies could look in future once the vis­ion and CAP have been imple­men­ted. Help Kin­craig & Vicin­ity Com­munity Coun­cil, High­land Coun­cil and CNPA con­sider the impact of plan­ning applic­a­tions on the com­munity. Inform CNPA’s review of the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan. Influ­ence invest­ment from pub­lic bod­ies, fun­ders, landown­ers and busi­nesses, in ways that sup­port the com­munity. Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030 Page 16 of 24

1. Next Steps: Deliv­ery Steps to deliv­er the Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan The next steps to start work­ing with the action plan and look­ing at how parts can start to be delivered will be sub­ject to some dis­cus­sion with­in the com­munity organ­isa­tions, but broadly involves col­lect­ively: • • • • • • • • Set­ting up a Team Kin­craig (see below) to take the plan for­ward. Agree­ing a chair for a spe­cified peri­od at a time, so will rotate after X months or after X meet­ings Agree­ing to adopt the Val­ues and Prin­ciples laid out below Agree­ing what pri­or­it­ies will be taken for­ward ini­tially Man­aging the pro­ject volun­teer list that has come out of the pro­cess Involving all key stake­hold­ers (organ­isa­tions & indi­vidu­als) in co-design of pro­ject deliv­ery Draw­ing up a more detailed deliv­ery action plan for each pri­or­it­ised pro­ject, identi­fy­ing aims, actions, mile­stones, who needs to be involved, key deliv­er­ables. (VABS has a tem­plate for this.) Com­mu­nic­at­ing pro­gress with the com­munit­ies Review­ing pro­gress on a reg­u­lar basis • Revis­it­ing the action plan as required Val­ues and Prin­ciples The fol­low­ing val­ues and prin­ciples will under­pin the way in which this action plan is rolled out and imple­men­ted: 1) A plan for all — it is the respons­ib­il­ity of the whole com­munity (indi­vidu­als and groups) to unite and work togeth­er for pro­ject ambi­tions to be real­ised 2) Trans­par­ency — all ideas should be planned and researched openly with a com­mit­ment to co-pro­duc­tion where groups con­trib­ute to the ideas as they devel­op 3) Part­ner­ship — work­ing togeth­er with a shared agenda will be at the heart of any activ­ity arising from this plan 4) Inclu­sion — every­one is invited to par­ti­cip­ate and every­one bene­fits, regard­less of age and abil­ity 5) Impact — the suc­cess of this plan will be judged on activ­it­ies which have a pos­it­ive influ­ence on people and com­munit­ies 6) Involve­ment — ensur­ing the com­munit­ies are mean­ing­fully involved in decisions that affect their lives. Team Kin­craig It is very import­ant to ensure the effect­ive deliv­ery of this action plan, for all of the com­munit­ies to work togeth­er to imple­ment it, ie a full com­munity approach not just one or two organ­isa­tions. This approach has been called Team Kin­craig in this report, but of course the com­munity will decide on its own name for these purposes.

Team Kin­craig will be the for­um for agree­ing on how the Steps at the start of this sec­tion are taken for­ward, as well as where respons­ib­il­ity will sit in terms of deliv­er­ing on the Val­ues and Prin­ciples out­lined above. It will not have a sep­ar­ate leg­al iden­tity, but simply be a for­um called maybe two or three times a year, per­haps by a rotat­ing chair. It should com­prise as a min­im­um, Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030 Page 17 of 24

rep­res­ent­at­ives from the organ­isa­tions who ini­tially steered the action plan­ning pro­cess, togeth­er with any oth­er com­munity groups who wish to be involved. Ongo­ing com­munity engage­ment A pro­cess for secur­ing com­munity man­dates for pro­jects at key mile­stones is advis­able, so that pro­jects can enjoy broad com­munity sup­port, fol­low best prac­tice in terms of co-design and allow for those who will be most impacted by a project’s deliv­er­ables to be involved in the activ­ity. Volun­teer lists A list of people who have come for­ward to volun­teer in gen­er­al or for spe­cif­ic pro­jects, has been com­piled from a ques­tion in the sur­vey and also inform­a­tion giv­en by res­id­ents at the Big Con­ver­sa­tion event. The Kin­craig and loc­al­ity CAP Volun­teer list is a vital part of deliv­er­ing on the action plan­ning pro­cess and those on the list need to be kept informed of how things are being pro­gressed and what part they might be able to play in that. Levels of Sup­port The sur­veys have giv­en the key com­munity organ­isa­tions in Kin­craig and Insh, a lot of detailed inform­a­tion com­ing from a wide sec­tor of the com­munity, regard­ing their thoughts on issues and ideas for pro­jects that they would like to see taken for­ward on their behalf.

The pri­or­it­ies fall into two main groups and will require to be tackled in a dif­fer­ent way: • • pro­jects which, although some are mid to longer term, are pos­sible for the com­munity to take for­ward them­selves, with some min­im­al sup­port from the rel­ev­ant key agen­cies or sup­port organ­isa­tions. large, com­plex issues around employ­ment, hous­ing, trans­port, busi­ness sup­port and infra­struc­ture, where the com­munity will require a great deal of long-term assist­ance from vari­ous pub­lic, third and some­times private sec­tor organ­isa­tions in order to take these for­ward and make a not­able dif­fer­ence. Mon­it­or­ing, Audit­ing and Eval­u­ation of the Com­munity Action Plan Mon­it­or­ing, audit­ing and eval­u­ation are essen­tial require­ments of any Com­munity Action Plan to ensure it is being imple­men­ted. Team Kin­craig will meet reg­u­larly to review pro­gress on the plan. Keep­ing records against each theme and pro­ject will be a use­ful tool to ensure pro­gress is being main­tained. These meet­ings will be open and access­ible to all groups and indi­vidu­als. Eval­u­ation provides an oppor­tun­ity to reflect and learn from activ­it­ies, assess the out­comes and effect­ive­ness of a pro­ject and think about new ways of doing things. Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030 Page 18 of 24

1. Thanks & Acknow­ledge­ments Thanks for all their involve­ment and hard work in help­ing to make the pro­cess a suc­cess must go to:
   • Kin­craig & Vicin­ity Com­munity Council
   • Kin­craig Com­munity Hall
   • Insh Com­munity Holdings
   • Alvie Primary School
   • Kin­craig Church
   • All the deliv­ery volun­teers who put sur­veys through every household’s door

Vol­un­tary Action in Badenoch and Strath­spey (VABS), as an inde­pend­ent com­munity and volun­teer­ing devel­op­ment char­ity, sup­por­ted Kin­craig, Insh and the oth­er loc­al­ity com­munit­ies through this com­munity action plan­ning pro­cess and facil­it­ated the steer­ing group meet­ings, but always fol­low­ing the community’s lead in how they wished to pro­ceed. Com­munity Action Plan­ning (CAP) is car­ried out in part­ner­ship by all of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park com­munit­ies on a reg­u­lar basis at the community’s request. Fund­ing to VABS to facil­it­ate the com­munit­ies’ CAP pro­cess is provided by the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity. Kin­craig and loc­al­ity Com­munity Action Plan: Look­ing to 2030 Page 19 of 24

1. Appen­dices Appendix i: What do you like about liv­ing in the Kin­craig com­munity area? • • • • • • • • • Great sense of com­munity and friendly neigh­bours – very wel­com­ing, well con­nec­ted, inclus­ive and sup­port­ive place Com­munity activ­it­ies planned through­out the year are great — espe­cially for the chil­dren Path net­work for walks Beau­ti­ful land­scape, scenery and views Loc­a­tion — not highly developed, quiet and safe for the chil­dren Superb Com­munity Hall and the com­munity events that are avail­able in it Close prox­im­ity to nature and wild­life Old PO café is won­der­ful in the com­munity Alvie Primary School Rur­al liv­ing away from the bustle of Aviemore par­tic­u­larly in hol­i­day sea­son Great access to wood­lands and moun­tains on the door­step • Loch Insh Water­s­ports Centre • Clean air • Abil­ity to social­ise loc­ally in The Suie pub • • • • Loch Insh Act­ive liv­ing — easy access to coun­tryside and fant­ast­ic out­door oppor­tun­it­ies (golf, hill walk­ing, swim­ming, ski­ing, just being in nature) Plant­ing by the primary school chil­dren is