Cairngorm National Park planning committee to vote on Aviemore flats plan

A CONTROVERSIAL flats plan at Aviemore will go before tomorrow’s Cairngorms National Park planning committee after a visit to the site involved.

Committee members will spend half an hour from 10am at the vacant plot in Grampian Road which once housed a filling station, between the High Range and the Happy Haggis, “to understand the physical context of the site and the land it occupies”.

Cairngorm Residential Ltd is applying for permission to build 28 apartments with associated works.

The committee will meet at 11.30 in Boat of Garten Community Hall to discuss the application, which has been recommended for refusal by planning officers on the grounds that it would “unacceptably dominate the area”.

“Its scale design, layout and massing does not reflect the local townscape and character,” contends Katherine Donnachie.

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