Planning Schedule Date: 10/08/2004 - Stroud District Council

Planning Schedule Date: 10/08/2004
English Heritage have no objections and say that the application should be "...determined with
the benefit of conservation advice locally"
Policy Considerations
These are taken from PPG 15 "Planning and the Historic Environment."
Paragraph 3.12, says "In judging the effect of any alteration or extension it is essential to have
assessed the elements that make up the special interest of the building in question."
Paragraph C.58 says; "the plan of a building is one of its most important characteristics. Interior
plans and individual features of interest should be respected and left unaltered as far as possible.
Internal spaces.......are part of the special interest of a building and may be its most valuable
feature."
Conclusions
S.04/0320/LBC was a far more extensive application involving more alterations than the present
proposals. This application was withdrawn and all the contentious items have been removed in
this new submission.
The majority of the proposed alterations involve minor changes in plan form, which occur at all
three floor levels. None of the changes affect historic fabric, as the partitions being altered are
mostly C20 alterations that are not of special interest. A raised platform in the ground floor of the
North range will be removed, but this is again of C20 construction. None of the proposals is
significant in its own right and there is no collective harm to the character of the listed building.
Your Officers assume that the Parish Council comment has re iterated what they said previously
without considering the impact of much altered proposals. You are therefore recommended to
grant listed building consent for these alterations.
As this is a II* Listed Building the application will have to be referred to the Government Office of
the South West before the notice is issued.
In compiling this recommendation we have given full consideration to all aspects of the Human
Rights Act 1998 in relation to the applicant and/or the occupiers of any neighbouring or affected
properties. In particular regard has been had to Article 8 of the ECHR (Right to Respect for
private and family life) and the requirement to ensure that any interference with the right in this
Article is both permissible and proportionate. On analysing the issues raised by the application
no particular matters, other than those referred to in this report, warranted any different action to
that recommended.
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