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CAIRNGORMS NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY 
Planning Committee Paper 11; 22nd April 2005 


CAIRNGORMS NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY 

FOR DISCUSSION 

Title: CONSULTATION REPORT for the FIRST PHASE OF 
THE LOCAL PLAN CONSULTATION. 

Prepared by: Norman Brockie: Planning Officer (Local 
Plan/Policy) 


Purpose 

To inform the CNPA Planning Committee of the results for the first phase of the CNP 
Local Plan community consultation, September to December 2004, and allow 
discussion as required. 


Executive Summary 

We decided early in the Local Plan development process, that one of our goals 
would be to maximise the involvement of the Park’s communities in the preparation 
of the Plan. 

Towards this end we recruited two Community Liaison Co-ordinators in May 2004; 
Anna Barton covers Badenoch & Strathspey, Jean Henretty covers Moray to Angus. 
Anna and Jean were tasked with developing community links and communication 
networks, as well as recruiting local volunteer ‘facilitators’ to help with the 
consultation. The 23 Community Councils/Associations in the Park were also offered 
various options for running the consultation process within their own area. 

In September 2004 we issued a community profile and questionnaire to every 
household and business within the Park, and over 1400 were returned. The 
questionnaires were then collated and analysed; the results of which formed the 
basis for the community meetings. Each of the 23 community areas within the Park 
had at least one main meeting, and often several smaller ones, most of which were 
organised and run by the local facilitators and the Co-ordinator. Over 1600 people 
attended the 46 meetings that were held; the format was generally an informal ‘dropin’ 
session where they could view the questionnaire results, stick idea pins/flags in a 
map, fill-in comment sheets and talk to staff. 

This Consultation Report is a record of results for both the questionnaire and the 
community meetings, which form the first phase of the Local Plan consultation. 
These results are now used to help us develop the Preliminary Draft Local Plan, for 
which we will have the phase 2 consultation from June to September 2005. 
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