PLAN­NING

Cairngorms Nation­al Park

Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan 2021

Non-stat­utory guid­ance: Policy 5 — Landscape

Con­tents

• How to use this guidance………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….1
• Intro­duc­tion and context………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….1
• Land­scape con­sid­er­a­tions in the Park…………………………………………………………………………………………………………2
• Spe­cial land­scape qual­it­ies of the Park……………………………………………………………………………………………………….2
• Nation­al Scen­ic Areas……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….2
• Wild Land Areas…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….3
• Land­scape character………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………4
• Private roads and ways……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………5
• Assess­ing effects of devel­op­ment on land­scape interests………………………………………………………………………………..7
• Oth­er sources of information…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..7

How to use this guidance

This non-stat­utory guid­ance forms part of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan 2021 and applies to all plan­ning applic­a­tions with­in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park. The Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan is avail­able via [https://​cairngorms​.co​.uk/​p​l​a​n​ning- development/​](https://​cairngorms​.co​.uk/​p​l​a​n​ning- development/​) and should be read along­side this guidance.

This guid­ance should be used dur­ing the pre­par­a­tion and assess­ment of plan­ning applic­a­tions to ensure that the require­ments of Policy 5 are met.

Intro­duc­tion and context

Policy 5 of the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan 2021 (copied in the box oppos­ite for ease of ref­er­ence) applies to all devel­op­ment and provides the frame­work for how con­sid­er­a­tion of land­scape interests should be incor­por­ated into devel­op­ment proposals.

Policy 5 – Landscape

1. 1 Spe­cial Land­scape Qualities

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

Devel­op­ment that does not com­ple­ment or enhance the land­scape char­ac­ter of the Nation­al Park and the set­ting of the pro­posed devel­op­ment will be per­mit­ted only where: a) any sig­ni­fic­ant adverse effects on the spe­cial land­scape qual­it­ies of the Nation­al Park are clearly out­weighed by social or eco­nom­ic bene­fits of nation­al import­ance; and b) all the adverse effects on the set­ting of the pro­posed devel­op­ment have been min­im­ised and mit­ig­ated through appro­pri­ate sit­ing, lay­out, scale, design and con­struc­tion to the sat­is­fac­tion of the plan­ning authority.

1. 2 Private Roads and Ways

There will be a pre­sump­tion against new private roads and ways in open moor­land’ areas unless:

a) it can be demon­strated that they are essen­tial for land man­age­ment pur­poses; and b) they are designed to min­im­ise land­scape and envir­on­ment­al impacts, and they con­serve and enhance the land­scape char­ac­ter and spe­cial land­scape qual­it­ies of the Nation­al Park includ­ing wild­ness; or, where appro­pri­ate c) they form part of a pro­gramme of works includ­ing the remov­al of oth­er exist­ing private roads and ways to deliv­er a net bene­fit for the spe­cial land­scape qual­it­ies of the Nation­al Park includ­ing wildness.

‘Open Moor­lands are defined here as the land out­side enclosed farm­land, semi-improved grass­land and forests, and includes heath­er moor­land and mont­ane hab­it­ats found on high ground across the Nation­al Park.

The land­scapes of the Nation­al Park are import­ant, so devel­op­ment pro­pos­als should relate to the dis­tinct­ive char­ac­ter­ist­ics and qual­it­ies of the land­scape. All devel­op­ment pro­pos­als must demon­strate how they have avoided adverse effects on the land­scape. This guid­ance provides advice on what needs to be con­sidered and provides links to oth­er use­ful sources of information.

In addi­tion to using this guid­ance, cross ref­er­ence to oth­er Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan policies and their guid­ance (where present) will be required to ensure that rel­ev­ant and often over­lap­ping issues are con­sidered. For example, Policy 3 design and place­mak­ing, Policy 4 nat­ur­al her­it­age and Policy 9 cul­tur­al her­it­age may apply.

Land­scape con­sid­er­a­tions in the Park

A devel­op­ment does not have to be loc­ated with­in or in close prox­im­ity to a spe­cif­ic land­scape or people to have an effect on them. This is because the land­scape and visu­al effects of devel­op­ment can be exper­i­enced over a large dis­tance. This means that it is import­ant to care­fully con­sider the study area for any pro­posed devel­op­ment with­in which there could be adverse effects. This is of par­tic­u­lar import­ance in the Park, which is des­ig­nated as an IUCN Cat­egory 5 Pro­tec­ted Landscape’.

All land­scapes with­in the Park have a high sens­it­iv­ity to change. The main land­scape and visu­al con­sid­er­a­tions in the Park for devel­op­ment pro­pos­als are iden­ti­fied in the fol­low­ing sections.

Spe­cial land­scape qual­it­ies of the Park

The excep­tion­al qual­ity of the land­scape of the Park was one of the main reas­ons for its des­ig­na­tion as a Nation­al Park. The spe­cial land­scape qual­it­ies (SLQs) of the Park are formed from the com­bin­a­tion of land­scape char­ac­ter and visu­al amen­ity and how these are exper­i­enced by people, which in turn are influ­enced by factors such as land­form, veget­a­tion, rivers, land use, access routes and how people per­ceive and value the land­scapes with­in the Park.

More inform­a­tion about the SLQs can be found via [https://​cairngorms​.co​.uk/​c​a​r​i​n​g​-​f​u​t​u​r​e​/​c​a​i​r​n​g​o​r​m​s​-​l​a​n​d​s​c​a​p​e​s​/​c​a​i​r​n​g​orms- spe­cial-land­scape-qual­it­ies/.](https://​cairngorms​.co​.uk/​c​a​r​i​n​g​-​f​u​t​u​r​e​/​c​a​i​r​n​g​o​r​m​s​-​l​a​n​d​s​c​a​p​e​s​/​c​a​i​r​n​g​orms- special-landscape-qualities/.)

Nation­al Scen­ic Areas

Nation­al Scen­ic Areas (NSAs) are defined in legis­la­tion as being areas of out­stand­ing scen­ic value in a nation­al con­text. There are two NSAs wholly with­in the Park (The Cairngorms Moun­tains NSA, Deeside and Loch­nagar NSA shown in fig­ure 1), with one fur­ther NSA just over­lap­ping the edges of the Park at Kil­liecrankie, near Blair Atholl (Loch Tum­mel NSA). Maps of the NSAs and inform­a­tion about them can be found via Site Link https://sitelink.nature.scot/home.

NatureScot² have described the spe­cial qual­it­ies of NSAs out­with the Park, and sep­ar­ately as SLQs for the Park as a whole. (The spe­cial qual­it­ies of the NSAs with­in the Park were not indi­vidu­ally described, as it was con­sidered that the NSA qual­it­ies were already described by way of the SLQs descrip­tion for the whole Park.) Inform­a­tion on the spe­cial qual­it­ies of both NSAs and the Park can be found via [https://www.nature.scot/professional- advice/safe­guard­ing-pro­tec­ted-areas-and- spe­cies/­pro­tec­ted-areas/n­a­tion­al- des­ig­na­tion­s/n­a­tion­al-scen­ic-areas/nsa- spe­cial-qual­it­ies.](https://www.nature.scot/professional- advice/safe­guard­ing-pro­tec­ted-areas-and- spe­cies/­pro­tec­ted-areas/n­a­tion­al- des­ig­na­tion­s/n­a­tion­al-scen­ic-areas/nsa- special-qualities.)

Wild Land Areas

Wild Land Areas (WLAs) were iden­ti­fied by NatureScot as the most extens­ive areas of wild­ness, meas­ured using four attrib­utes: per­ceived nat­ur­al­ness of the land cov­er; rug­ged­ness of ter­rain; remote­ness from pub­lic roads, fer­ries or rail­way sta­tions; vis­ible lack of build­ings, roads, pylons and oth­er mod­ern artefacts.

The qual­it­ies iden­ti­fied by NatureScot in the WLA descrip­tions also include per­cep­tu­al attrib­utes, such as a sense of sanc­tu­ary, inspir­a­tion of awe, etc.

Two WLAs are found mainly with­in the Park (WLAs 15 Cairngorms and 16 Loch­nagar — Mount Keen), with three more over­lap­ping the edges of the Park (WLAs 14 Ran­noch – Nevis – Mamores – Alder, 19 Braeroy – Glen­shira – Cre­ag Mea­gaidh and 20 Mon­adh­liath) (fig­ure 2). Maps and inform­a­tion about the WLAs, includ­ing their wild­ness qual­it­ies, can be found via [https://www.nature.scot/wild- land-area-descrip­tions](https://www.nature.scot/wild- land-area-descriptions).

Land­scape character

The Nation­al Park is char­ac­ter­ised into dif­fer­ent land­scape char­ac­ter areas. With­in each area, there is a con­sist­ency of key land­scape char­ac­ter­ist­ics influ­enced by aspects such as topo­graphy, land use, his­tor­ic land­scape fea­tures and set­tle­ment, as well as how the land­scape is experienced.

With­in the glens and straths there is more diversity of land­scapes in a smal­ler area, where­as in the uplands the land­scape tends to be sim­il­ar over much lar­ger areas.

NatureScot have iden­ti­fied and mapped broad land­scape char­ac­ter types across Scot­land. Inform­a­tion and map­ping is avail­able via [https://www.nature.scot/professional- advice/­land­scape/­land­scape-char­ac­ter- assess­ment/scot­tish-land­scape-char­ac­ter- types-map-and-descrip­tions](https://www.nature.scot/professional- advice/­land­scape/­land­scape-char­ac­ter- assess­ment/scot­tish-land­scape-char­ac­ter- types-map-and-descriptions).

The Park Author­ity has iden­ti­fied and described land­scape char­ac­ter­ist­ics with­in the Park bound­ary, identi­fy­ing smal­ler areas of dis­tinct­ive char­ac­ter­ist­ics. This can help with assess­ment of smal­ler scale devel­op­ment pro­pos­als, and is avail­able via [https://​cairngorms​.co​.uk/​c​a​ring- future/­cairngorms-land­scapes/­land­scape- areas/​](https://​cairngorms​.co​.uk/​c​a​ring- future/­cairngorms-land­scapes/­land­scape- areas/).

Private roads and ways

The term ​‘private roads and ways’ has spe­cif­ic mean­ing in plan­ning³, being any road or path that is not main­tained at the pub­lic expense. How­ever private roads and ways tend to be exper­i­enced by the pub­lic as vehicle tracks (fig­ure 3), so are com­monly referred to as ​‘tracks’ or ​‘hill tracks’. In this guid­ance, the term ​‘tracks’ is used as an inclus­ive term for all ​‘private roads and ways’

The con­struc­tion and main­ten­ance of tracks fall under two dif­fer­ent areas of the plan­ning sys­tem: those requir­ing plan­ning per­mis­sion, and those that have per­mit­ted devel­op­ment rights. Most tracks are likely to require full plan­ning permission.

The excep­tions to this are forestry and agri­cul­tur­al tracks, which may be per­mit­ted devel­op­ment but still need to go through the pri­or noti­fic­a­tion pro­cess to enable the rel­ev­ant plan­ning author­ity to advise wheth­er per­mit­ted devel­op­ment applies in the par­tic­u­lar cir­cum­stances, or if plan­ning per­mis­sion is required.

This is because the rules around what is/​is not per­mit­ted devel­op­ment and under what cir­cum­stances are com­plex. For example, most per­mit­ted devel­op­ment rights do not apply in Nation­al Scen­ic Areas4.

The Park Author­ity guid­ance on Plan­ning Per­mis­sion and Per­mit­ted Devel­op­ment Rights for Agri­cul­tur­al and Forestry Private Ways should there­fore be referred to. Regard­less of the pro­cess tracks go through, the devel­op­ment of a track can have land­scape and visu­al effects far great­er than the foot­print of a track itself. This can be reduced by sens­it­ive sit­ing and design, and fol­low­ing good prac­tice dur­ing con­struc­tion and main­ten­ance. How­ever in some loc­a­tions sig­ni­fic­ant adverse land­scape and visu­al effects are unavoid­able and so tracks will not be appro­pri­ate (fig­ure 4). To avoid issues at a later stage, advice on wheth­er plan­ning or per­mit­ted devel­op­ment applies and the poten­tial for adverse effects should be sought from the rel­ev­ant plan­ning author­ity at the earli­est stage for both new tracks and pro­posed upgrades to exist­ing tracks.

Assess­ing effects of devel­op­ment on land­scape interests

The assess­ment of land­scape and visu­al impacts should fol­low the pro­cess and incor­por­ate the mit­ig­a­tion hier­archy shown in fig­ure 5 (over­leaf) from the out­set. This should enable devel­op­ment to be designed to avoid, min­im­ise and mit­ig­ate adverse effects while optim­ising opportunities.

Details of the assess­ments car­ried out and how they have been used to inform the sit­ing and design of the pro­posed devel­op­ment should be sub­mit­ted with plan­ning applic­a­tions as sup­port­ing inform­a­tion. Assess­ments should include con­sid­er­a­tion of effects dur­ing con­struc­tion and oper­a­tion over the life cycle of the pro­posed devel­op­ment, as well as wheth­er there could be cumu­lat­ive effects with oth­er devel­op­ment (exist­ing and proposed).

Table I (shown after fig­ure 5) iden­ti­fies dif­fer­ent types of assess­ment that may be required to sup­port devel­op­ment pro­pos­als in the Park. The num­ber and level of assessment(s) will vary depend­ing on the type of devel­op­ment pro­posed and the sens­it­iv­it­ies of the pro­posed devel­op­ment site and sur­round­ing area.

Table 2 provides ref­er­ences and links to sources of guid­ance and inform­a­tion cur­rent at the time of pub­lic­a­tion. Many of these sources are provided by oth­er organ­isa­tions so will be sub­ject to change over time. Read­ers should ensure that they use the most up to date pub­lished ver­sion. If in doubt, advice should be sought from the pub­lish­er and/​or rel­ev­ant plan­ning authority.

Some devel­op­ment pro­pos­als may require form­al detailed Land­scape and Visu­al Impact Assess­ment (LVIA) as part of an Envir­on­ment­al Impact Assess­ment’, while oth­ers may only require some of the assess­ments iden­ti­fied in Table 1. There­fore early engage­ment with the rel­ev­ant plan­ning author­ity is strongly recom­men­ded so that the scope and type(s) of land­scape assess­ment can be agreed at the earli­est stage for each pro­posed development.

Oth­er sources of information

In addi­tion to the sources lis­ted in Table 2, the fol­low­ing are of relevance:

• Design and Place­mak­ing guid­ance, avail­able via [https://​cairngorms​.co​.uk/​p​l​a​n​ning- devel­op­ment/ldp-2021/](https://​cairngorms​.co​.uk/​p​l​a​n​ning- devel­op­ment/ldp-2021/)
• Dark skies: inform­a­tion on the Tomin­toul and Glen­liv­et Dark Skies Park can be found via [https://darkskies.glenlivet- cairngorms​.co​.uk/.](https://darkskies.glenlivet- cairngorms​.co​.uk/.) Advice on devel­op­ment in the dark skies area can be found via link to be added once published

Step 1: Define the broad scope of the assess­ment by identi­fy­ing land­scape des­ig­na­tions and known land­scape sens­it­iv­it­ies (eg the Nation­al Park, NSAs, WLAs, scen­ic routes etc)

Step 2a: Identi­fy baseline land­scape and visu­al con­di­tions (includ­ing SLQs, land­scape char­ac­ter, visu­al amen­ity, etc, as relevant).

Step 2b: Identi­fy and assess sens­it­iv­it­ies (and oppor­tun­it­ies) of baseline land­scape and visu­al con­di­tions in rela­tion to devel­op­ment type and size.

Step 3: Devel­op design object­ives for the pro­posed devel­op­ment site in dir­ect response to the sens­it­iv­it­ies and oppor­tun­it­ies of the baseline land­scape and visu­al conditions.

Step 4: Site and design the pro­posed devel­op­ment fol­low­ing the land­scape and visu­al design object­ives as well as oth­er con­sid­er­a­tions (eg nat­ur­al her­it­age, roads require­ments, etc).

Step 5: Assess the pre­dicted land­scape and visu­al effects of the designed devel­op­ment against the baseline conditions.

Step 6: Identi­fy the pre­dicted resid­ual effects of the pro­posed devel­op­ment after incor­por­at­ing mitigation.

Mit­ig­a­tion hierarchy

Avoid Avoid inap­pro­pri­ate loc­a­tions; places where there would be likely sig­ni­fic­ant adverse effects whatever the design and/​or man­age­ment of a scheme.

Min­im­ise: primary mit­ig­a­tion Design devel­op­ment to min­im­ise adverse land­scape and visu­al effects.

Min­im­ise : sec­ond­ary mit­ig­a­tion If sig­ni­fic­ant adverse land­scape and visu­al effects are iden­ti­fied, explore altern­at­ives and amend the design to reduce these effects.

Com­pensate In excep­tion­al cir­cum­stances where resid­ual adverse land­scape and visu­al effects can­not be avoided, off-set these through on-site envir­on­ment­al com­pens­a­tion or, as a last resort, off-site envir­on­ment­al compensation.

Table I sources of guid­ance and inform­a­tion for dif­fer­ent steps in the land­scape assess­ment and design pro­cess (links and ref­er­ences are provided in Table 2)

Exist­ing guidance/​information (* if rel­ev­ant to the type of devel­op­ment being proposed)

Steps in the assess­ment pro­cess |Guidelines for Land­scape & Visu­al Impact Assessment|Cumulative LVIA|NSA and Park SLQ descriptions|Effects on NSA and Park SLQS|WLA descriptions|Effects on WLAS|Landscape Char­ac­ter Type/​area descriptions|NPF / SPP|Creating Places |Design statements|Residential visu­al amen­ity assessment|Tracks |Suds |Wind farms|Visu­al­isa­tions| —- | —- | —- | —- | —- | —- | —- | —- | —- | —- | —- | —- | —- | —- | —- | —- | I Define scope of assess­ment |✓| |✓|✓|✓|✓|✓|✓|✓|✓|✓|✓| |✓|✓| All steps below: use the mit­ig­a­tion hier­archy to identi­fy mit­ig­a­tion meas­ures | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 Assess (a) baseline con­di­tions and (b) sens­it­iv­it­ies |✓|✓| | | | |✓| | |✓| | | | | | 3 Devel­op design object­ives | | | | | | | |✓| | | | | | | | 4 Site and design pro­posed devel­op­ment | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5 Assess and describe pre­dicted effects | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | then repeat for 6 Identi­fy pre­dicted resid­ual effects after | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | incor­por­at­ing mit­ig­a­tion | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | • Effects on land­scape char­ac­ter | |✓|✓| | | | | | | | |✓| |✓|✓| | • Effects on visu­al amen­ity | |✓| | | | | | |✓|✓| | | | | | | • Effects on SLQs | | |✓|✓| | | | | | | | | | | | | • Effects on WLAS | | | | |✓|✓| | | | | | | |✓| | | • Effects on designed land­scapes | | | | | | | | | | | |✓| | | | | • Cumu­lat­ive effects | |✓|✓| | | | | | | | | | | | | | • Illus­tra­tions to inform assess­ment of | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |✓| effects | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

Table 2 – links and ref­er­ences for the guid­ance referred to in Table I

Guid­ance name	Ref­er­ence	Link
Guidelines for
Land­scape and
Visu­al Impact
Assess­ment
(GLVIA)	Land­scape Insti­tute and Insti­tute of Environmental
Man­age­ment and Assess­ment (2013) Guidelines for Landscape	https://​www​.land​scapein​sti​tute​.org/​t​e​c​h​n​i​c​a​l​/​g​l​v​i​a​3​-​p​anel/
and Visu­al Impact Assess­ment. 3rd ed. Abing­don, Routledge.
Cumu­lat­ive LVIA	Gen­er­al: GLVIA as above.
For wind farms: NatureScot (2012) Guid­ance – Assess­ing the	Gen­er­al: as above.
For wind farms: [https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/planning-and-
devel­op­ment/ad­vice-plan­ners-and-developer­s/re­new­able-energy-
devel­op­ment/on­shore-wind-energy/ad­vice-wind-farm](https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/planning-and-
devel­op­ment/ad­vice-plan­ners-and-developer­s/re­new­able-energy-
devel­op­ment/on­shore-wind-energy/ad­vice-wind-farm)
cumu­lat­ive impact of onshore wind energy developments.
NSA and Park SLQ	NatureScot (2010) The Spe­cial Qual­it­ies of the National
Scen­ic Areas: NatureScot Com­mis­sioned Report No. 374	Both avail­able via: [https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/safeguarding-
pro­tec­ted-areas-and-spe­cies/­pro­tec­ted-areas/n­a­tion­al-des­ig­na­tion­s/n­a­tion­al-
scen­ic-areas/nsa-spe­cial-qual­it­ies](https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/safeguarding-
pro­tec­ted-areas-and-spe­cies/­pro­tec­ted-areas/n­a­tion­al-des­ig­na­tion­s/n­a­tion­al-
scen­ic-areas/nsa-spe­cial-qual­it­ies)
descrip­tions	NatureScot and CNPA (2010) The spe­cial land­scape qualities
of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park. NatureScot Commissioned
Report No 375
Effects on NSA
and Park SLQS	NatureScot (2018) Guid­ance for assess­ing the effects on special	link to be added once published
land­scape qual­it­ies. cur­rently in draft
WLA descrip­tions	NatureScot (2017) Wild Land Area Descrip­tions: 14 Rannoch –
Nevis – Mamores – Alder, 15 Cairngorms; and 16 Lochnagar –	https://www.nature.scot/wild-land-area-descriptions
Mount Keen, 19 Braeroy — Glen­shira — Cre­ag Mea­gaidh and 20
Mon­adh­liath
Effects on WLAS	NatureScot (2017) Assess­ing impacts on Wild Land Areas:
Tech­nic­al guidance	[https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/landscape/landscape-policy-and-
guid­ance/assess­ing-impacts-wild-land-areas-draft-guid­ance](https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/landscape/landscape-policy-and-
guid­ance/assess­ing-impacts-wild-land-areas-draft-guid­ance)
Land­scape
Char­ac­ter Type
(LCT)/area
descrip­tions	NatureScot (2019) land­scape char­ac­ter types map­ping and	NatureScot LCT descrip­tions: [https://www.nature.scot/professional-
advice/­land­scape/­land­scape-char­ac­ter-assess­ment/scot­tish-land­scape-
char­ac­ter-types-map-and-descrip­tions](https://www.nature.scot/professional-
advice/­land­scape/­land­scape-char­ac­ter-assess­ment/scot­tish-land­scape-
char­ac­ter-types-map-and-descrip­tions)
inform­a­tion
CNPA land­scape char­ac­ter areas map­ping and information	CNPA land­scape char­ac­ter area descrip­tions: [https://​cairngorms​.co​.uk/​c​a​ring-
future/­cairngorms-land­scapes/­land­scape-areas/](https://​cairngorms​.co​.uk/​c​a​ring-
future/­cairngorms-land­scapes/­land­scape-areas/)

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Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan 2021 Non-stat­utory guid­ance Policy 5 – Landscape

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