Development Brief for Local Development Plan Site H1 Carrbridge

We need your views!

Purpose of this Questionnaire

The Cairngorms National Park Local Development Plan (LDP) identifies a number of sites for future housing development, including site H1 at Carrbridge (see plan overleaf). Site H1 is allocated for up to 72 houses. However, two planning applications for housing development on the site were recently refused by the Cairngorms National Park Authority. It is acknowledged that these planning applications generated a significant amount of local objection. This leaves a level of uncertainty over the future development of this site.

As a result, we intend to produce a Development Brief for the H1 site to provide more clarity on the key issues that any future development proposals should address. This should help to give more certainty for both local residents and the site developer. This questionnaire allows you to have your say on the issues that the Development Brief should cover.

It is important to be clear that this is not an opportunity to reconsider whether the H1 site is appropriate for development in principle. However, it is an important opportunity for you to influence how the site could be taken forward in a way that benefits Carrbridge.

Questions

The protection of woodland will be an important factor for the H1 site. Would you support development in any part of the woodland on the site?

Yes ☐

No ☐

Don’t know ☐

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2)	If the H1 site is developed, it is likely to provide enough housing to meet the needs of Carrbridge for a number of years. How many houses do you think should be developed on the H1 site over the next 10 years?

72 (the full LDP allocation) – an average of around 7 houses per year	☐

36 (as recommended by the LDP Examination) – around 3 per year on average	☐

Other (please specify and explain your answer)	☐

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3)	We have listed below a number of other key factors that we think any future development on the H1 site will need to address. Please tick any/all that you think should be covered within the Development Brief.

Access and road safety issues on Carr Road	☐

Provision of a safe pedestrian route to school	☐

Layout of development	☐

Range and type of housing	☐

Affordable housing provision	☐

Phasing of development and build rates	☐

Public realm/open space	☐

Other (please specify and explain your answer):

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4)	Please indicate any other factors that you think the Development Brief should include and explain why.

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Thank you for taking the time to give us your views.

Please email this completed questionnaire to planning@cairngorms.co.uk by 5pm on Friday 1 April 2016, or print it out and send by post to:

Forward Planning Team

Cairngorms National Park Authority

14 The Square

Grantown on Spey

PH26 3HG

All questionnaire responses will be considered by the Forward Planning Team and used to inform a Draft Development Brief for the H1 site. The Draft Development Brief will then be subject to further public consultation before being considered for approval by the Cairngorms National Park Authority. We currently expect to publish the Draft Development Brief for consultation during late 2016 / early 2017.

If you wish to be kept up to date with progress on preparing the Development Brief, please provide your name and an email contact address below:

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Any contact details you provide will be used only in connection with the preparation of the Development Brief for the H1 site.