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CAIRNGORMS NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY
FOR INFORMATION

Title: 		Delivery of the Scotland Rural Development Programme 
		in the National Park Ð Land Management Support Officers

Prepared by: 	Gordon McConachie, Land Management Support Officer
		Fiona Chalmers, Senior Land Management Officer

Purpose

To update the Board on the delivery of the Scotland Rural Development 
Programme in the National Park to date, and provide a final report on 
the conclusion of the two-year Land Management Support Officer secondments.

Recommendations

That the Board notes;

a) The current implementation of SRDP Rural Development Contracts 
within the National Park
b) The support work carried out by the Land Management Support 
Officers (LMSOs)

Executive Summary

The Scotland Rural Development Programme (SRDP) is the most significant 
source of public funding available to support land-based businesses 
deliver public benefits and hence safeguard the special qualities of 
the National Park.

CNPA and partners have worked to try to maximise the potential value of 
SRDP to the National Park Ð for businesses and to safeguard the public 
benefits identified in the Park Plan. Part of that work has been to 
actively engage with the partner agencies responsible for delivering
the SRDP to encourage integration of National Park priorities and in 
conjunction with that the CNPA employed two Land Management Support 
Officers for a period of 2 years between May 2008 and May 2010.

This paper provides the Board with an annual update on SRDP 
implementation following on from the previous paper submitted in 
May 2009 and notes the implementation role of the two LMSO posts 
with detail in a final report (appendix A).