Tube slides and zip line set to stay at Cairngorm Mountain

Planners are recommending that consent be given for a further five years for Cairngorm Mountain’s three tube slides and zip line.

Temporary approval was granted by Highland Council in June 2019 for the installation of a tube slide, the zip line and play area for a temporary period until November 1 this year.

The operation of the slide was then to cease and the structures removed.

In June, last year, the Cairngorms National Park Authority granted planning permission for two further tube slides within the same area.

This was again as a temporary consent with removal of equipment required by the same date.

But now CNPA planners are recommending that planning permission is extended until November 2026.

Emma Bryce, CNPA planning manager, said: The principle of the slides as temporary developments has been previously been considered by both Highland Council and the Cairngorms National Park Authority.

"The continued operation of the slides and zip wire will allow Cairngorm Mountain to provide a summer activity and source of income over a period of time when the funicular railway continues to be repaired and during a period when the activities can be complementary."

She pointed out that the developments are identical to those previously consented and built.

And she explained: "Although it is appropriate that they are made as two applications, they each relate to what is now functionally one development so are considered together within this

report."

Members of the CNPA's planning committee will consider the application when they meet online next Friday.

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