SEA Screening determinations and statement of reasons for LDP

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY UGH­DAR­RAS PAIRC NAISEANTA A’ MHON­AIDH RUAIDH

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan 2021 Sup­ple­ment­ary Guid­ance Envir­on­ment­al Assess­ment (Scot­land) Act 2005

Screen­ing determ­in­a­tion In accord­ance with Sec­tion 8(1) of the Envir­on­ment­al Assess­ment (Scot­land) Act 2005 CNPA has form­ally determ­ined, in con­sulta­tion with His­tor­ic Envir­on­ment Scot­land, Scot­tish Envir­on­ment Pro­tec­tion Agency (SEPA) and NatureScot, that imple­ment­a­tion of the sup­ple­ment­ary guid­ance for the 2021 Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan (LDP) is unlikely to lead to sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects, and there­fore no envir­on­ment­al report will be prepared.

State­ment of reas­ons The guid­ance provides advice and inform­a­tion sources to help con­sid­er­a­tion of the rel­ev­ant LDP policy in rela­tion to devel­op­ment pro­pos­als. The guid­ance doc­u­ments in them­selves do not cre­ate addi­tion­al require­ments, actions or activ­it­ies that would have envir­on­ment­al effects. The policies that the guid­ance doc­u­ments sup­port are part of the LDP, which was sub­ject to sep­ar­ate SEA. Adop­tion of the guid­ance is there­fore unlikely to res­ult in sig­ni­fic­ant envir­on­ment­al effects.

Fur­ther inform­a­tion A copy of the July 2022 screen­ing report sub­mit­ted to con­sulta­tion author­it­ies, which provides fur­ther detail on the assess­ment, can be viewed online https://​cairngorms​.co​.uk/​p​l​a​n​n​i​n​g​-​d​e​v​e​l​o​p​m​e​n​t​/​l​d​p​-​2021/ or reques­ted by email­ing planning@​cairngorms.​co.​uk or writ­ing to CNPA, 14 The Square, Grant­own on Spey, PH26 3HG.

22 August 2022