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How we will deliver it

A collective effort

All public bodies must ‘have regard to’ the National Park Partnership Plan in taking forward work in the Cairngorms National Park; however, the plan cannot be delivered by the public sector alone. It needs businesses, landowners and third sector organisations within the National Park to play their part, helping tackle the climate emergency and nature crisis and delivering on the priorities that matter for the area. There are a number of different ways that the plan will be implemented:

Image of people at outdoor market. Photo by Liam Anderstrem.

Partnership

Working with organisations and people across the National Park to deliver the plan.

Incentives

Providing help to secure public benefits through payments and other incentives.

Legislation

Ensuring that legislation is adhered to within the National Park.

On the whole, work will be delivered through partnership working, with joint approaches to funding and delivery. However, where there are issues that are not being addressed, consideration will be given to regulatory approaches within the National Park.

Hierarchy of plans

The National Park Partnership Plan is the high-level management plan for the National Park and is the Economic Strategy, Sustainable Tourism Strategy, Regional Spatial Strategy, Climate Action Plan and the Regional Land Use Framework (see below). It is supported by a number of action plans that will help to deliver the objectives of the plan and the National Park aims. The Climate Action Plan is a key requirement of our Glasgow Declaration commitments. Public bodies in the National Park will also prepare Gaelic language plans and equality outcomes plans that will be significant in influencing activity within the area.

National Park Plan chart showing the hierarchies of the different strategies and plans

Key: How all the various strategies and plans for the Cairngorms National Park fit together. The National Partnership Plan (at the top) is the Economic Strategy, Capital Investment Strategy, Sustainable Tourism Strategy, Regional Spatial Strategy, Regional Land Use Framework and the Climate Action Plan. Beneath this (from left to right) are the Cairngorms Nature Action Plan and Cairngorms Forest Strategy; the Local Development Plan; the Wellbeing Economy Action Plan, Sustainable Tourism Action Plan and Strategic Tourism Infrastructure Plan; and the Active Cairngorms Action Plan (Health, active travel and access).