BSCG Vice Convener Roy Turnbull commented after the vote, "For too long, woodlands, and other sites important for nature in the Cairngorms National Park, have been regarded by unscrupulous landowners as a means of making money via development, and the Park planners have not done enough to protect such sites. This welcome decision by the CNPA Planning Committee helps to establish the principle that such high-quality nature sites should be safe from development."