The Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) has approved three quarry applications relating to the A9 dualling project.

The applications involved the Meadowside Quarry at Kincraig.

Breedon Aggregates Scotland brought forward the proposals to create a new temporary access road to the construction site, the installation of new plant and approval to vary a previous condition allowing the company to increase the rate of annual extraction at the quarry.

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The company has been given approval to increase the rate of extraction from 50,000 tonnes to 150,000 tonnes per year for a period of two years.

The extra load will supply materials for the Kincraig to Dalraddy section of the A9 dualling project.

In addition, a new access road directly from the quarry to the construction site was approved, along with the temporary erection of a mobile asphalt plant within the quarry site for two years.

CNPA Planning Officer, Matthew Taylor, said: "All three applications are for temporary works in association with the A9 dualling project and given the established nature of the quarry I recommend them all for approval subject to various conditions."

(LM/CD)