Call for views on the next Local Development Plan for the Cairngorms National Park
Call for views on the next Local Development Plan for the Cairngorms National Park
The Cairngorms National Park Authority has launched a series of surveys to collect views on issues affecting the people who live and work in the Cairngorms National Park to help inform the next Local Development Plan. The Plan helps guide development in the National Park, including where affordable housing, community facilities and economic development will go.
People who live and work in the National Park can use the dedicated website to provide feedback on a series of surveys on topics including historic and cultural heritage, economic development and housing. These surveys will go live in stages on the site between June 2024 and the end of the year.
Gavin Miles, Director of Planning and Place at the Cairngorms National Park Authority, said: “Thank you to everyone who shared their views last summer on the interactive map and dedicated website we set up for people who live and work in the National Park to feed into the next Local Development Plan.
“We used your views and ideas to help develop a set of online surveys that we’d now like you to take part in so we can gather evidence to create the draft Local Development Plan. It is important that local people have a say in the Plan and so I’d urge everyone who lives and works in the National Park to visit the website and complete the surveys.”
The feedback from those who live and work in the National Park will be used to inform an Evidence Report, which will the basis for preparing the first draft of the Local Development Plan in late 2025.
If you have any questions about the Local Development Plan, completing the surveys or would like to share your views over the phone or in writing, please email [email protected]
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There is an ongoing wildfire situation at Glenmore within the Cairngorms National Park. Click here for all the latest. We would encourage members of the public to follow current guidance and be aware that the situation may change.
Due to the this wildfire incident, the following paths and routes are closed:
- All the paths around Loch Morlich, Glenmore and Badaguish are closed.
- The Ryvoan pass is closed, this includes all access to the Green Lochan (Lochan Uaine).
- Routes providing access to Cairngorm, the Northern Corries, Meall a’ Bhuachaille, Strath Nethy and Bynack More should be avoided.
- The Abernethy Forest area to the south of Forest Lodge and towards Ryvoan bothy is closed.