Planning Committee - April 2020

This document contains an email from Deirdre Straw, a Planning Systems Officer at the Cairngorms National Park Authority, sent on 20 March 2020. The email details the outcome of a Planning Committee meeting held electronically on the same day due to COVID-19 restrictions. The committee approved, subject to conditions, an amendment of current time limits on the use of land for waste disposal by landfill at a landfill site in Granish, Aviemore, and the erection of an art gallery building at House of Bruar, Blair Atholl.

This document contains a notice of meeting for the Cairngorms National Park Authority. The meeting will take place on 24 April 2020 via video conferencing. It will be a Planning Committee meeting starting at 10am. The notice states that this meeting will not be open to the general public. The agenda and papers for the planning meetings will be available to view on the Friday the week before the meeting on the National Park Authority website.

This document contains the agenda for the Cairngorms National Park Authority Planning Committee meeting on 24 April 2020, held virtually at 10am. The agenda includes welcoming attendees, recording apologies, reviewing the minutes from the meeting on 20 March 2020, and declarations of interest. It also features an update on applications approved by the committee that are subject to developer contributions and a recommendation to approve the consultation on natural heritage, landscape, cultural heritage, and renewable energy non-statutory guidance. The agenda concludes with any other business and setting the date for the next meeting and quorum requirements.

This document contains an update for the Cairngorms National Park Authority (Park Authority) Planning Committee on applications approved by the committee that are subject to developer contributions. Sometimes decision notices for applications can't be issued because of pending legal agreements or other outstanding issues. If these issues aren't likely to be resolved, the Park Authority might recommend refusing the application. Currently, there are two planning applications that have been approved but haven't had decision notices issued yet for more than three months. One application is for a distillery, and the legal agreement is expected to be registered soon, allowing the decision notice to be issued. The other application is for affordable housing, but it's been delayed because of COVID-19 related contract issues. Park Authority officers are working to find solutions and will provide further updates to the Planning Committee.

This document contains a proposal for the Cairngorms National Park Authority (Park Authority) to approve the publication of non-statutory guidance for a six-week public consultation. This guidance supports the Local Development Plan (LDP) and covers natural heritage, landscape, cultural heritage, and renewable energy. The Park Authority submitted the proposed LDP to Scottish Ministers in September 2019, and after the reporters' examination and any required modifications, the Park Authority will adopt the LDP. The consultation aims to gather feedback to inform the final non-statutory guidance, which will then be reported back to the Planning Committee for adoption and later be considered alongside the LDP in summer 2020.

This document contains draft guidance from the Cairngorms National Park Authority for their Local Development Plan 2020, specifically focusing on Policy 4, which covers natural heritage. This guidance is non-statutory, meaning it provides advice but isn't legally binding. It aims to help planning applicants and those assessing applications to safeguard and enhance natural heritage interests within the Cairngorms National Park. The document outlines how to consider the potential impacts of development on natural habitats and wildlife, including following a mitigation hierarchy to avoid, minimize, and compensate for any negative effects. It also emphasizes the importance of ecological surveys and provides links to useful resources for further information and advice.

This document contains draft non-statutory landscape guidance from the Cairngorms National Park Authority's Local Development Plan 2020, specifically related to Policy 5, which concerns landscape considerations. The guidance is for all planning applications within the Cairngorms National Park and is designed to help ensure that development conserves and enhances the landscape character and special qualities of the National Park. It provides information on how to assess the impact of development on the landscape, including consideration of special landscape qualities, National Scenic Areas (NSAs), and Wild Land Areas (WLAs), as well as private roads and ways. The document also offers sources of information and guidance for different steps in the landscape assessment and design process.

This document contains draft non-statutory guidance on renewable energy for the Cairngorms National Park Authority's Planning Committee. It supports the Cairngorms National Park Local Development Plan 2020 and applies to planning applications incorporating renewable energy systems. The guidance provides information and advice about different types of renewable energy systems like hydro-electricity, wind energy, biomass, solar power, and heat pumps. It also includes considerations for all renewable energy proposals to ensure any adverse impacts on landscape, community, natural, and cultural heritage are avoided or minimized.

This document contains draft cultural heritage non-statutory guidance that forms part of the Cairngorms National Park Local Development Plan 2020 and applies to planning applications within the National Park. It provides guidance on how to safeguard cultural heritage, including general principles, repair, reuse, repurposing, and replacement of structures, and outlines considerations for various cultural heritage interests such as listed buildings, scheduled monuments, conservation areas, gardens, designed landscapes, and battlefields. The document also includes information on archaeological sites, buildings at risk, and features of local importance, as well as guidance on supporting information for planning applications, with links to relevant resources and planning authority websites.