Gavin Miles, Director of Planning and Place
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.
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Need to know
Everything you need to know on how you can help to take care of the National Park on your visit.
What we do
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Relevant alerts
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As a result of ongoing efforts to tackle wildfires to the north of the Cairngorms National Park, several roads are currently closed. Scottish Fire and Rescue are in attendance and the public are advised to avoid the area, including footpaths. Road users are asked not to ignore road closed signs.
The affected roads are:
- B9007 Ferness to Duthil
- U2379 Lochindorb Road
- B939 Ferness to Grantown-on-Spey
- U2347 Braes of Castle Grant
For all the latest information check out the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Police Scotland website and social media.