No legal reason why the CNPA could not adopt residency criteria

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Category: Debates
Published: 10 May 2010

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At our Residency Criteria in National Parks talk today Bill McDermott, Chairman of Scottish Campaign for National Parks who worked for many years in the Peak District National Park as an Assistant National Park Officer, said "Despite what Danny Alexander MP was apparently told by the National Park staff, there is no legal reason why the CNPA could not adopt residency criteria. These would restrict availability of new build houses to people living within the National Park or with certain connections to it. Residency criteria would stop the present excessive development that is currently  destroying the natural and culteral heritage of the National Park."
 
 
Residency criteria are successfully  established on the east side of Loch Lomond and English and Welsh national parks.
At our Residency Criteria in National Parks talk today Bill McDermott, Chairman of Scottish Campaign for National Parks who worked for many years in the Peak District National Park as an Assistant National Park Officer, said "Despite what Danny Alexander MP was apparently told by the National Park staff, there is no legal reason why the CNPA could not adopt residency criteria. These would restrict availability of new build houses to people living within the National Park or with certain connections to it. Residency criteria would stop the present excessive development that is currently  destroying the natural and cultural heritage of the National Park."

Residency criteria are successfully  established on the east side of Loch Lomond and English and Welsh national parks.

Bad news: CNPA paper rejects much Reporters advice.

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Category: Organisations
Published: 10 May 2010

The Cairngorms National Park Local Plan Inquiry reports are on: CNPA Board Papers page.

See:

Paper 2 Analysis of Reporters Recommendations and Post Inquiry Modifications of the Local Plan
PDF (368Kb)

Paper 2 Analysis of Reporters Recommendations and Post Inquiry Modifications of the Local Plan PDF (368Kb)

Paper 2 Annex Analysis of Reporters Recommendations. Warning large file PDF (2868Kb)

Black grouse at An Camas Mor

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Category: Debates
Published: 10 May 2010

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Black grouse male (blackcock) - Tetrao tetrix. Photo: Gus Jones BSCG

BSCG are concerned that development proposals at An Camas Mor would destroy habitat for this magnificent woodland grouse.

Open talk 10 May: Residency Criteria in National Parks

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Category: Meetings
Published: 04 May 2010

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A talk open to non members

By Bill McDermott, Chairman of Scottish Campaign for National Parks.

The Church Hall, Nethybridge, Monday 10th  May  7.30pm.

Refreshments. Admission Free

Further information Tel 01479 821491

Please download print and display event poster.

Andrena lapponica nesting site in Boat of Garten wood development site

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Category: Insects
Published: 08 May 2010
This attractive bee species has been recorded quite widely in the Cairngorm National Park but usually it is only single individuals foraging that are observed whereas BSCG found a nesting site with a congregation of up to 15 females within Deshar Wood in May 2009 directly within the area proposed for clear-felling by the developers Davall for a housing development.
According to the records on NBN this is the first time within the Cairngorm National Park that a congregational nesting site has been found for this species. Normally the nest burrows for this species are widely scattered rather than being as a congregation so to find up to 15 females all nesting together in one small area within the woodland is uncommon. According to a hymenopteran expert from the Bees, Wasps and Ant Society (BWARS) the finding of a congregational nesting site for this species is a 'great discovery' as it is uncommon to find one.
The main foodplant for this bee species is blaeberry of which there is an abundance within Deshar Wood and any disturbance caused to this nesting colony will be of a detrimental value for the survival of this species within this woodland and will cause the loss of the only apparently recorded congregational nesting site within the Cairngorm National Park.

This attractive bee species has been recorded quite widely in the Cairngorm National Park but usually it is only single individuals foraging that are observed whereas BSCG found a nesting site with a congregation of up to 15 females within Boat of Garten wood in May 2009 directly within the area proposed for clear-felling by the developers Davall for a housing development. 

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Bee - Andrena lapponica. © 2009 Tim Ransom, BSCG.

According to the records on NBN this is the first time within the Cairngorm National Park that a congregational nesting site has been found for this species. Normally the nest burrows for this species are widely scattered rather than being as a congregation so to find up to 15 females all nesting together in one small area within the woodland is uncommon. According to a hymenopteran expert from the Bees, Wasps & Ants Recording Society (BWARS) the finding of a congregational nesting site for this species is a 'great discovery' as it is uncommon to find one.

The main food plants for the bee are  considered to be species of Vaccinium  of which there is an abundance within Boat of Garten wood and any disturbance caused to this nesting colony will be of a detrimental value for the survival of this species within this woodland and will cause the loss of the only apparently recorded congregational nesting site within the Cairngorm National Park.