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Downloadable CNPA Decision The Newsletter for the Cairngorms Campaign Enhancing the Conservation of the Cairngorms T HE CAIRNGORMS CAMPAIGNER Autumn 2011 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Appeal for Funding Support for the Campaign’s Legal Appeal Against the Cairngorms National Park Local Plan A Time to Challenge! Appeal for Funding 1-2 Support for the Why has a group of voluntary bodies findings, largely supported the views of Campaign’s Legal decided to take the Cairngorms National objectors to some important developments. Appeal Against the Park Authority (CNPA) to the Court of The sheer scale of housing developments Cairngorms Session in Edinburgh regarding the was a major concern: “---we conclude that National Park Local Plan Cairngorms National Park Local Plan? This that the rationale for the calculation of the housing requirement is unconvincing and the connection with housing land Action by the 3-4 requirement is not made sufficiently clearly” Campaign the reporters stated, in particular saying they could find no basis for a 50% allowance for second homes and vacant Talking Point 6-7,8 property in housing allocations. Wildness and the Cairngorms In Brief 5, 9 Around the 10 Cairngorms Book reviews 11 Cairngorm Stories 11-12 A red squirrel at Carrbridge one of the threatened sites is expensive and arduous. Voluntary organisations have to be driven to this. Something major must be amiss! The Local Plan for the National Park is a The Cairngorms Campaign key document guiding its sustainable The Blaeberry Bee – a threatened species on the UK postal address: development. It went through the stages of List of Priority Species and Habitats under threat under being drafted, submitted to public the UK Biodiversity Action Plan “Cairngorms Campaign, consultation, a public local plan inquiry and The proposal to build a new town, An PO Box 10037, Alford, the Park Authority’s response to the often Camas Mor initially, across the Spey from AB33 8WZ” strong criticisms and recommendations of Aviemore was particularly important. On the two Scottish Government Reporters to this the reporters stated, “Planning policy at the public inquiry. These voluntary bodies all levels requires the consideration of looked at the CNPA’s response to those landscape and natural heritage impacts findings, and felt they had to act. and both are of considerable importance for An Camas Mòr given its National As pointed out in our previous newsletter, Scenic Area and Special Area of both reporters to the public inquiry, in their Conservation status. Despite this, the only Page 2 Autumn 2011 Appeal for Funding Support for the Campaign’s Legal Appeal Against the Cairngorms National Park Local Plan continued evidence available to us is Topic Paper 4a and the principles of sustainable governance applicable to Landscape Capacity for Housing Study. On close managing Hyde Park in London, or a run-down inner-city examination, neither of these endorses the proposal as put housing scheme. Do any of these aims not apply to your forward in the finalised local plan.” More fundamentally, as community wherever you live? explained in our newsletter of Spring 2011, the idea of establishing such a new town right at the point of already However, there is in the National Parks (Scotland) Act maximum pressure on the Cairngorms National Park, with 2000 a key clause stating, “In exercising its functions a no effective protective buffer zone around the mountains, National Park authority must act with a view to is a basic blunder in terms of national park and mountain accomplishing the purpose set out in subsection (1); but if, management. in relation to any matter, it appears to the authority that there is a conflict between the National Park aim set out in Had the CNPA accepted the reporters’ findings, a way section 1(a) and other National Park aims, the authority forward might have been found, but it largely set aside the must give greater weight to the aim set out in section 1(a).” reporters’ recommendations. The voluntary bodies’ That 1(a) refers to the 1st aim in the box below. appeal, as filed with the court, focuses on quite specific housing development proposals at certain Badenoch and In other words, when a choice has to be made between Strathspey locations: Carrbridge, Nethybridge and, above environment and development, environmental all, An Camas Mor (Initially of 1500 houses but it would considerations must weigh more heavily than development undoubtedly expand). It lists many rare species of plants, interests. On this hangs much of the future success – or animals, insects, other lifeforms, and their habitats that otherwise - of the Cairngorms National Park. At base, the would be damaged by development on these sites. Those evidence submitted to the Court of Session by the particular proposals are in themselves cause for great Cairngorms Campaign and others asserts that this concern, but behind them lie broader concerns central to principle has not been observed, and this is our most any possibility of future successful management of the fundamental concern. This issue affects any who go to or Park. feel strongly about the Cairngorms whether you are a naturalist, climber, hillwalker, rambler, or other and why we The appeal lists priority species meant to be protected by have issued this challenge in court. It is why these the Cairngorms Biodiversity Action Plan and the Scottish voluntary bodies, despite their limited resources of time Biodiversity Action List and UK Priority Red Data Books, and money, have taken on such an arduous task and are and asserts breaches of the Habitats Directive and/or the appealing for help and contributions from the wider public. Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981) including capercaillie, You can donate directly at Online. Go to JustGiving at red squirrels, buttterflies and Ancient Woodland. This is a http://www.justgiving.com/ and type Cairngorms Campaign series of significant accusations in itself but the concern in the ‘Donate to charity’ search box. goes wider and deeper. Scottish National Parks are set up along a modern model, and the chances of that model’s success are still hotly debated. Under this model, Park “Fecht for Britain? Hoot awa! Authorities in Scotland have four aims as shown below. For Bonnie Scotland? Imph, man na! These aims are to be achieved in an integrated way. For Lochnagar? Wi clook and claw! However, a look at them tells you that they are nothing specifically to do with managing a National Park or any J C Milne Poet of Northeast Scotland” other area of high natural value. They are simply guiding The Four Aims of Scottish National Parks To be met in an integrated manner! 1 To conserve and enhance the natural and cultural heritage of the area, 2 To promote sustainable use of the natural resources of the area 3 To promote understanding and enjoyment (including enjoyment in the form of recreation) of the special qualities of the area by the public 4 To promote sustainable economic and social development of the area’s communities. The Cairngorms Campaigner Page 3 ACTION BY THE CAMPAIGN Representations to Panel Appointed to wildness and wild land. The policy defines bands A, B Provide Independent Review of Deer and C of decreasing wildness. A is “High quality wildness areas where the landscape is dominantly natural and Management on Mar Lodge Estate by the ecological processes are prevalent” where any form of National Trust for Scotland development can reduce wildness and consideration The degraded state of the ageing remnants of the Old should be given to removal of such developments and Caledonian Pine Forest on Mar Lodge Estate have long new developments of any kind inappropriate. Within this been a matter of serious concern. Under previous owners band, “new hill tracks should be avoided and the impacts no regeneration of young pines or other trees and shrubs of existing ones should be reduced through remedial occurred. The National Trust for Scotland took over the work or removed completely.” This will not, unfortunately, estate in 1995.The estate covers nearly 8% of the deal with the massive intrusion into wild areas of the National Park, totals 29,380 hectares, and, as the Trust network of tracks already there. Band B areas are those says, “Within its boundaries are fine examples of classic which “have a largely natural feel with infrequent man- features of a Highland landscape: remnants of the made features” and Band C broadly covers cultivated and ancient Caledonian pine forest, heather moorland, juniper settlement areas. In C, developments should be designed scrub and a part of the high Cairngorm plateau. “ It also to fit the landscape and the priority is reduce impacts on states that “The estate is recognised as one of the most the other bands. reducing qualities of the other bands. important nature conservation landscapes in the British Isles..” The Trust did important work on such things as In general, the Campaign urged that there should be an removal of bulldozed tracks. even stronger stance taken against vehicular tracks in the A major aim of conservation on the estate was to start Cairngorms and the removal of structures in wild areas. regeneration of the ageing remnants of the Caledonian Many of the potentially wild forest areas referred to above Pine Forest on the land but progress in this has been for example are in Band B areas and the Campaign negligible until recently. The chief cause was failure to urged that the guidance should read “There should be no reduce deer populations to the population of 1650 red new tracks within this area and the impacts of existing deer it was initially assessed that the estate could carry ones reduced by being removed completely whenever and still achieve regeneration.
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