Agenda - pdf - Selby District Council

Jennifer Hubbard
out in the DVS.
The document should also identify a preference for new front boundaries to be
formed by hedges and for existing hedges to be retained rather than being
replaced by walls or fences. A good example of boundary fencing to be avoided
can be found at the junction of Main Street with the A163 road where the
boundaries to both roads, in a highly prominent position, have been formed by a
2 metre high close-boarded fence – for which planning permission was granted!
Agree make change to all VDS
Agree - Although the VDS considers
established vegetation and boundary
treatment, it could usefully be bolstered in the
main text.
Jennifer Hubbard
Jennifer Hubbard
Some of these matters are considered briefly in Appendix B but this is general
advice not targeted to North Duffield. The points should be made in the main
body of the document.
The proposals that new estate development should replicate the character of
older development along the three main roads is unrealistic. Rather, within any
new estate development, there should be a requirement for a hierarchy of streets
which, together with the scale and character of the development fronting the
streets, clearly differentiates the main or “through” or linking streets from lower
order pedestrian-dominated streets. The “main” streets could reflect (not copy)
some of the characteristics of the three older village streets.
Pedestrian and cycle linkages should be established between the existing
settlement and any new development. Several such “snickets” exist throughout
the village - from Main Street leading to Back Lane to the south of the Village
Hall; from Main Street adjacent to the public house car park, leading to the
village school and from Green Lane leading into the Broadmanor housing
development. These are important as well as distinctive local features. No
mention is made of them in the VDS.
The photographs of standardised repetitive housing accompanying the text on
Character Area 2 clearly demonstrate the need for variety in building types,
heights etc. (see above comment that adjacent properties should [not] be of
similar proportions).
The core character of North Duffield is the
linear “ribbon” growth of the 3 roads. It is down
to a competent designer to incorporate this in
to development proposals. The VDS does not
prescribe how this should be done, but merely
sets the context of the village as a starting
point.
Agree -Mention of the existing “snickets” can
be usefully included in the text of the
document.
Jennifer Hubbard
Those properties are of similar proportions, but
also of very limited variety. It is the
combination of these attributes that render
them out of character with the remainder of the
village, not just the proportions.
Jennifer Hubbard The document lacks advice on the treatment of the interface between the built- It is not clear what issue is being raised.
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