Core Strategy Preferred Options document - Amazon Web Services
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Strategies, Activities and Actions – Character of Place<br />
CP2 Conservation Areas – <strong>Preferred</strong> Option<br />
We will work closely with our partners to implement the actions<br />
recommended in the adopted Conservation Area Appraisal and<br />
Management Plans and will have regard to the advice in the CAAs<br />
and adopted SPDs when considering proposals for development<br />
within a Conservation Areas.<br />
CP2 – Alternative <strong>Options</strong><br />
Option Why is it not preferred?<br />
We will not take a positive<br />
approach to enhancing<br />
Conservation Areas, and will<br />
simply continue our reactive<br />
approach to proposals.<br />
Local Lists<br />
We believe Conservation<br />
Areas can be enhanced by<br />
taking a positive approach.<br />
We believe that many buildings in the District, despite not being listed,<br />
are of local distinctiveness and form part of a familiar and cherished local<br />
scene.<br />
We dropped our Local List during the preparation of the Rochford District<br />
Replacement Local Plan, but more recent guidance (Review of Heritage<br />
Protection: the way forward (2004) DCMS and Heritage Protection for the<br />
21st Century (2007) DCMS) suggests that these lists do have a valuable<br />
role. There is now positive encouragement from the government through<br />
the recent White Paper for the preparation of such lists and we propose<br />
to reintroduce one for the District.<br />
Although there is no statutory protection for buildings included on Local<br />
Lists (except those in Conservation Areas), we will set out policies to<br />
encourage owners to avoid demolition, unsympathetic alteration or<br />
changes which would diminish the architectural, historic or townscape<br />
value of these buildings.<br />
We will carry out a survey, using criteria set out in paragraph 6.10 to 6.12<br />
of Planning Policy Guidance (PPG) 15 to determine in consultation with<br />
local communities, the buildings that will comprise the Local List.<br />
Responses to our initial consultation made it clear that respondents value<br />
their local environment and believe that the historic character of the<br />
District must be protected. We will not normally approve any<br />
unsympathetic alterations, including replacement of traditional windows<br />
or alterations to the external cladding, to buildings included in the Local<br />
85<br />
An example of the type<br />
of work that will need<br />
planning permission in<br />
a Conservation Area,<br />
and not in any other<br />
area is the alteration of<br />
any window fronting a<br />
highway, re-roofing<br />
with different materials<br />
and the painting of<br />
external walls fronting<br />
a highway.<br />
The National list of<br />
Listed Buildings<br />
includes all buildings<br />
considered to be of<br />
national importance or<br />
interest. The Local<br />
List currently being<br />
prepared by us will<br />
identify all buildings<br />
considered to be of<br />
local interest or<br />
importance.<br />
The buildings on the<br />
list will not be subject<br />
to statutory protection,<br />
but will however be<br />
noted as being worthy<br />
of retention.<br />
Criteria for inclusion on<br />
a Local List is set out<br />
in PPG 15: Planning<br />
and the Historic<br />
Environment.