14 The Square Grantown-on-Spey Moray PH26 3HG Fergus Ewing MSP Constituency Office Highland Railhouse Station Square Inverness IV1 1LE (t) 01479 873535 (f) 01479 873527 enquiries@cairngorms.co.uk www.cairngorms.co.uk grantmoir@cairngorms.co.uk 5 July 2018 Dear Fergus I have seen a quote from you in the Strathy about the Carrbridge Hotel proposal. I do not intend to respond to you and Mr Watt through the press but thought I would write to you on the issues raised. The Planning Committee last week received feedback from the Main Issues Report consultation on the Local Development Plan 2020 onwards. The Planning Committee gave officers a steer on the proposals and this will be worked up into the Proposed Local Development Plan for public consultation in November 2018. [Deleted on basis of commercial confidentiality] [Deleted on grounds of confidentiality – reference to legal processes underway] [Deleted on basis of commercial confidentiality] Whether the land is zoned in the next LDP which takes full effect from 2020, would have no bearing on any current planning application for the proposed car park site as it only becomes a material planning consideration at a later stage. [Deleted on grounds of commercial confidentiality] I should finally say that rather than find out through the press and the statements that you have made about the Board and myself it would have been courteous to contact me directly. The CNPA delivers across all 4 of the Park Aims and specifically on the 4th Aim through work, such as, the regeneration work in Tomintoul/Glenlivet, the support of the community housing group in Dulnain Bridge, the Badenoch Great Place Scheme, the Snow Roads and the proposed infrastructure investment at Glenmore and Aviemore. The CNPA Planning Service also provides high quality advice to applicants and in the past 3 years the approval rate has been 2015/16 100%, 2016/17 100% and 2017/18 91%. This was shown on Friday by the consent for a 2MW run of the river scheme on the River Muick. A complex scheme but done well by the applicant following advice from CNPA. R:\Corporate Services\Information Management\Access to Information\FOI - requests EY + 3\FOI-232\Correspondence\180705FergusEwinglttrreCarrbridgeFOI232Release.doc 04/12/18 Eleanor Mackintosh, Planning Convener, Peter Argyle, Board Convener and I would be delighted to meet with you and to discuss the facts around this issue and other rural development issues in the National Park. Yours sincerely GRANT MOIR Chief Executive R:\Corporate Services\Information Management\Access to Information\FOI - requests EY + 3\FOI-232\Correspondence\180705FergusEwinglttrreCarrbridgeFOI232Release.doc 04/12/18