Paper 4 annex 2 LDP delivery programme

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For decision

Title: Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan 2021 – Deliv­ery Pro­gramme Pre­pared by: Jeff Pyrah, Seni­or Plan­ning Officer and Dan Har­ris, Plan­ning Manager

Pur­pose

This paper presents the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan 2021 – Deliv­ery Pro­gramme (2025). The Deliv­ery Pro­gramme is an import­ant pro­ject man­age­ment tool. It is instru­ment­al to achiev­ing an out­comes-focused approach to devel­op­ment planning.

All loc­al plan­ning author­it­ies are required to pub­lish a Deliv­ery Pro­gramme by 31 March

1. The Board is being asked to note the Deliv­ery Pro­gramme 2025 as set out in Annex 1 and approve its sub­mis­sion to Scot­tish Ministers.

Recom­mend­a­tions

The Board is asked to: α) Note the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan Deliv­ery Pro­gramme 2025 and approve its sub­mis­sion to Scot­tish Ministers.

Stra­tegic context

1. The Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan is the main doc­u­ment which influ­ences built devel­op­ment in the Nation­al Park. It is a stat­utory require­ment for the Nation­al Park, as a loc­al plan­ning author­ity. It is also a stat­utory require­ment to pub­lish a Deliv­ery Pro­gramme (formerly known as an Action Pro­gramme) along­side the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan. The Deliv­ery Pro­gramme reports on pro­gress and sets out actions for the deliv­ery of the sites and pro­pos­als in the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan. It is there­fore a key tool for facil­it­at­ing and sup­port­ing devel­op­ment. The Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan and Deliv­ery Pro­gramme con­trib­ute to the Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan’s stra­tegic out­comes across Nature, People and Place, but most par­tic­u­larly in rela­tion to housing.

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1. The Board adop­ted the cur­rent Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan in March 2021. An Action Pro­gramme was pub­lished along­side it to set out how the policies and pro­pos­als with­in the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan would be imple­men­ted. A sub­sequent update to the Action Pro­gramme was pub­lished in 2022.

2. The Plan­ning (Scot­land) Act 2019 (“the 2019 Act”) intro­duced sig­ni­fic­ant changes to devel­op­ment plan­ning. It renamed Action Pro­grammes as Deliv­ery Pro­grammes. This was to emphas­ise their pur­pose, which is to achieve the out­comes of the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan, rather than focus on mon­it­or­ing spe­cif­ic actions. The Town and Coun­try Plan­ning (Devel­op­ment Plan­ning) (Scot­land) Reg­u­la­tions sub­sequently came into force on 19 May 2023 and set out the mat­ters which a Deliv­ery Pro­gramme must contain.

3. A new deliv­ery pro­gramme will be pre­pared along­side the new Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan and will fully meet the require­ments set out in the Reg­u­la­tions. How­ever, in the trans­ition­al peri­od until the new Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan and Deliv­ery Pro­gramme is pre­pared, each loc­al plan­ning author­ity is required¹ to update the Action Pro­gramme for their exist­ing Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan and pub­lish it as a Deliv­ery Pro­gramme. In June 2024, a let­ter from the Government’s Chief Plan­ner stated that Scot­tish Min­is­ters required each plan­ning author­ity to review the Action Pro­gramme for its ​‘con­sti­tuted loc­al devel­op­ment plan and update it and pub­lish it as a Deliv­ery Pro­gramme’ by 31 March 2025.

4. This trans­ition­al doc­u­ment aims to respond to the new reg­u­la­tions, with­in the con­text of the adop­ted Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan. A key dif­fer­ence, com­pared to the require­ments for action pro­grammes, is the need to spe­cify the ​‘sequen­cing and times­cale for the deliv­ery of hous­ing sites alloc­ated by the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan’. Nation­al Plan­ning Frame­work 4 describes this as a ​‘deliv­er­able hous­ing land pipeline’. It explains that the pur­pose of the pipeline is to provide a trans­par­ent view of the phas­ing of hous­ing alloc­a­tions so that inter­ven­tions, includ­ing infra­struc­ture that enable deliv­ery, can be planned which leads to qual­ity places. It explains that the pipeline phas­ing should rep­res­ent when land will be brought for­ward across the short (one — three years), medi­um (four — six years) and long- term (sev­en — ten years).

¹ Reg­u­la­tion 5 of the Plan­ning (Scot­land) Act 2019 (Com­mence­ment No. 12 and Sav­ing and Trans­ition­al Pro­vi­sions) Reg­u­la­tions 2023

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Scope of the Deliv­ery Programme

1. This Deliv­ery Pro­gramme seeks to provide great­er clar­ity to stake­hold­ers through its present­a­tion­al approach. As an update and replace­ment for the Action Pro­gramme 2022, it intro­duces a col­our-coded ​‘deliv­ery pipeline’ (sec­tion 2); provides details on afford­able hous­ing and fin­an­cial con­tri­bu­tions secured through plan­ning per­mis­sions (sec­tion 3) and provides a great­er level of detail on the plan­ning his­tory of each alloc­ated site in each set­tle­ment (sec­tion 6).

2. A draft ver­sion of this Deliv­ery Pro­gramme has been the sub­ject of con­sulta­tion with intern­al officers and oth­er key stake­hold­ers (loc­al author­it­ies, landown­ers, developers and key agen­cies). A list of the responses received is provided for inform­a­tion below. The aim has been to take this oppor­tun­ity to con­tin­ue to strengthen our rela­tion­ship with these stakeholders.

3. The deliv­ery pipeline presents the data avail­able in each loc­al authority’s pub­lished hous­ing land audit. It is col­our-coded to reflect pro­gress by cat­egor­ising each site as either ​‘under con­struc­tion’, ​‘with per­mis­sion’ or ​‘no per­mis­sion’. While red, amber and green col­ours are used, the col­ours are not an assess­ment of each site’s deliv­er­ab­il­ity status. It does not mean that red sites are con­sidered to be ​‘con­strained’ or ​‘undeliv­er­able’. The sum­mary table is repro­duced below (Table 1).

Table 1 Sum­mary of Hous­ing Supply

Status	Total site capa­city	All com­ple­tions to 31 March 2023	Total dwell­ings remaining
Under con­struc­tion	574	260	314
With per­mis­sion	104		104
No per­mis­sion	468		468
Totals	1,146	260	886

1. The sum­mary table includes Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan alloc­ated sites as well as wind­fall sites (non-alloc­ated sites which have plan­ning per­mis­sion) of four or more dwell­ings. It shows that 260 dwell­ings have been built on these sites between April 2020 and April 2023 – the first three years of the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan. This equates to an aver­age of 87 dwell­ings per year. The Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan’s hous­ing land require­ment is 484 dwell­ings for the five years from 2020 to 2024 and 335 dwell­ings from 2025 to 2029. This totals 819 dwell­ings over a 10-year

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peri­od, or an aver­age of 82 dwell­ings per year. Hous­ing com­ple­tions over the first three years of the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan are there­fore in line with the require­ments set out in the plan.

Stra­tegic policy consideration

1. This Deliv­ery Pro­gramme is an update to the Action Pro­gramme 2022, pro­duced to com­ply with the ​‘trans­ition­al pro­vi­sions’ under the Plan­ning (Scot­land) Act 2019.

2. The trans­ition­al pro­vi­sion reg­u­la­tions state that the Action Pro­gramme for each loc­al plan­ning authority’s Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan must be kept under review, updated and repub­lished as a Deliv­ery Pro­gramme ​‘whenev­er required to do so by the Scot­tish Min­is­ters’. The Scot­tish Min­is­ters have required all loc­al plan­ning author­it­ies to do so by 31 March 2025.

3. The Board are not being asked to con­sider options oth­er than the recom­men­ded course of action. A new Deliv­ery Pro­gramme will be pre­pared along­side the new Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan and stra­tegic policy con­sid­er­a­tions will be import­ant at that time.

Stra­tegic risk management

1. No stra­tegic risks from the Park Authority’s stra­tegic risk register are triggered by the pub­lic­a­tion of the Deliv­ery Pro­gramme. Its pub­lic­a­tion is a stat­utory require­ment of the Plan­ning (Scot­land) Act 2019, under the Plan­ning (Scot­land) Act 2019 (Com­mence­ment No. 12 and Sav­ing and Trans­ition­al Pro­vi­sions) Reg­u­la­tions 2023.

2. Fail­ing to pub­lish the Deliv­ery Pro­gramme would con­sti­tute a repu­ta­tion­al risk giv­en the dir­ec­tion from Scot­tish Min­is­ters to pub­lish a Deliv­ery Pro­gramme by 31 March 2025, as set out in the Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment Chief Planner’s let­ter dated 27 June 2024.

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Implic­a­tions

1. The pro­posed pub­lic­a­tion of the Deliv­ery Pro­gramme does not have stra­tegic resource implic­a­tions and its pre­par­a­tion and imple­ment­a­tion is part of the stat­utory func­tion of the loc­al plan­ning author­ity. It does not expose the Author­ity to new areas of liability.

Suc­cess measures

1. Pub­lish­ing this Deliv­ery Pro­gramme by 31 March 2025 will meet the require­ment of Scot­tish Min­is­ters to review the action pro­gramme for our con­sti­tuted Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan and update it and pub­lish it as a Deliv­ery Programme.

Sup­port­ing information

1. Annex 1 — Pro­posed Deliv­ery Pro­gramme 2025

2. Annex 2 – Sum­mary of Con­sulta­tion Responses

Links

[Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan 2021 – Action Pro­gramme 2022](Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan 2021 – Action Pro­gramme 2022)

Jeff Pyrah 13 March 2025 jeffpyrah@​cairngorms.​co.​uk

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Annex 2

Sum­mary of Con­sulta­tion Responses

Stake­hold­er	Response
Loc­al Authorities
Aber­deen­shire Council	Plan­ning Inform­a­tion and Deliv­ery Team – con­firmed that the fig­ures match the pub­lished hous­ing land audit. Sug­ges­ted improve­ments to gen­er­al lay­out and minor word changes. Provided advice in rela­tion to developer con­tri­bu­tions for edu­ca­tion and health care infra­struc­ture capacity.
The High­land Council	Devel­op­ment Plans Team – advice in rela­tion to devel­op­ment con­tri­bu­tions for edu­ca­tion infra­struc­ture capa­city. Agree­ment to meet to strengthen rela­tion­ship between the two plan­ning author­it­ies in rela­tion to developer contributions.
Moray Coun­cil	Stra­tegic Plan­ning and Devel­op­ment – con­firmed that the fig­ures reflect the most up to data inform­a­tion Moray Coun­cil hold.
Perth and Kinross Council	Place Strategies Team – Clear and easy to fol­low. No spe­cif­ic com­ments to make.
Key Agen­cies
His­tor­ic Envir­on­ment Scotland	Wel­come the pre­par­a­tion of the doc­u­ment, no detailed com­ments required.
Nes­trans	Acknow­ledge the role of the region­al trans­port strategies and how they are linked to the [Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan and Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan](Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan and Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan).
Nation­al Health Service	NHS Grampi­an – no com­ments in addi­tion to advice provided on NHS Grampi­an assets in rela­tion to the emer­ging loc­al devel­op­ment plan.
NatureScot	No com­ments to make.
Scot­tish and South­ern Elec­tri­city Networks	No com­ments to make.
Scot­tish Enterprise	Have con­sidered the doc­u­ment and have no com­ments to make.

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Scot­tish Envir­on­ment­al Pro­tec­tion Agency	Reques­ted spe­cif­ic minor word changes.
Scot­tish Forestry	Grampi­an Con­servancy – high­light broadleaved wood­land des­ig­na­tion of site alloc­a­tion H1 Dinnet.
Trans­port Scot­land Aviemore Com­munity Council	Sug­ges­ted amend­ments to word­ing of their infra­struc­ture pro­jects. Note the con­tents, no com­ments to make.
Landown­ers and Developers
Brae­mar Com­munity Ltd	Update in rela­tion to site H3 Braemar.
Inver­cauld Estate / Sco­tia Homes	Update in rela­tion to site H1 Ballater.
Mar Estate	Update in rela­tion to site H1 Braemar.
Tul­loch Homes	Update in rela­tion to sites H1 New­ton­more and H1 / H2 Aviemore.