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Gavin Miles, Director of Planning and Place

Gavin smiling to camera wearing rainbow lanyard

Gavin Miles, who grew up in Royal Deeside, is a graduate of Glasgow and Strathclyde universities and has been a chartered town planner since 2003. 

Gavin joined the Park Authority in 2004 as a planner working from the Ballater office and undertook a variety of different roles, before becoming Head of Planning and Communities in 2015 and Director of Planning and Place in 2024.

In his current role, Gavin oversees our Planning, Rural Development and Visitor Services teams. Before joining the Park Authority, he spent six years working for a planning and environmental consultancy based in Glasgow.

Salary information

Name: Gavin Miles 
Job Title: Director of Planning and Place 
Grade: not applicable
Organisation: Cairngorms National Park Authority 
Basic pay at rates as at 31 March 2024: £65,000 – £70,000 
Notes: not applicable

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Get in touch

To contact a member of the Park Authority's staff, email [email protected] or call 01479 873 535. All correspondence addressed to individual staff or board members will then be passed to them directly. 

Register of interests: 

Category 1: Remuneration  

  • None

Category 2: Other roles 

  • None

Category 3: Contracts 

  • None 

Category 4: Election expenses 

  • None 

Category 5: Houses, land and buildings 

  • Joint owner with spouse of house in Grantown on Spey
  • Shared family interest in house at Abergeldie, Crathie

Category 6: Interest in shares and securities 

  • None 

Category 7: Gifts and hospitality 

  • None 

Category 8: Non-financial interests 

  • Member of Anagach Woods Trust
  • Director and Trustee of Anagach Woods Trust from November 2014 to March 2022

Category 9: Close family members 

  • Spouse is board member of Grantown Community Centre
  • Spouse is committee member of Grantown Community Cinema
  • Spouse is employed part-time to provide business administration support for local consultancy Alba Ecology which is owned by CNPA Board member Pete Cosgrove
  • Brother is a GP and a partner in Grantown-on-Spey Medical Practice
  • Close family member is an electrician employed by a Grantown-on-Spey based business
  • Close family members own or joint-own houses in Grantown-on-Spey and Cromdale.
Road closures are still in place as part of ongoing efforts to tackle wildfires to the north of the Cairngorms National Park.
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