Bulkington Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Proposals July 2008

DRAFT FOR PUBLIC CONSULTATION Contents PART ONE: THE APPRAISAL

1. INTRODUCTION

2. SUMMARY OF SPECIAL INTEREST

3. ASSESSING SPECIAL INTEREST

3.1 LOCATION AND SETTING Location and Context General Character and Plan Form Landscape Setting

3.2 HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT AND ARCHAEOLOGY Origins and historic development of the area Archaeology

3.3 SPATIAL ANALYSIS Character and interrelationship of spaces Key Views

3.4 CHARACTER ANALYSIS Past uses and their effect on plan form and buildings The qualities of the buildings and their contribution to the area The Public Realm Contribution made by green spaces and trees

3.5 THE EXTENT OF INTRUSION OR NEGATIVE FACTORS

3.6 THE EXISTENCE OF NEUTRAL AREAS

3.7 PROBLEMS, PRESSURES AND CAPACITY FOR CHANGE

4. SUGGESTED BOUNDARY CHANGES

PART TWO: FUTURE CARE

5. MANAGEMENT PROPOSALS

5.1 INTRODUCTION

5.2 SUGGESTED MANAGEMENT PROPOSALS FOR PUBLIC CONSULTATION

APPENDIX A: ARTICLE 4 (2) DIRECTION INTRODUCED IN 2008 APPENDIX B: PLAN AND LIST OF PROPERTIES AFFECTED BY THE ARTICLE 4 (2) DIRECTION INTRODUCED IN 2008

2 1. INTRODUCTION

Conservation areas are designated under the provisions planning officers and members in determining planning of Section 69 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and applications and applications to demolish buildings within Conservation Areas) Act 1990 where they are defined its boundaries. The appraisal also provides an opportunity as ‘[areas] of special architectural and historic interest to review those boundaries and to suggest possible the character and appearance of which it is desirable to management proposals. preserve or enhance” The document is divided into two parts. The first part This document is an appraisal of the special architectural comprises the appraisal itself, and the second part contains and historic interest of the Bulkington Conservation Area the management proposal resulting from the appraisal. designated in November 1985 (1). It seeks to define and Both parts will be subject to periodic future review to take describe the area’s special interest in order to assist in account of any significant change in the area concerned. its future management and change. An understanding of It is anticipated that much of the appraisal in part one what is special about the conservation area should assist will remain relevant over a longer period than the management proposals. Existing Conservation Area Boundary - Designated November 1985 1

3 2. DEFINITION OF SPECIAL INTEREST 3. ASSESSING SPECIAL INTEREST

The special interest of the conservation area resides in the surviving historic village character of Church Street 3.1 LOCATION AND SETTING imparted by its remaining historic buildings and their relation to the street, the attractive form of the street with Location and Context its shallow curving alignment, and its physical and visual relationship with the ancient parish church and churchyard Church Street and the parish church of St James of St James which terminate the street vista in northerly lie at the centre of what is now Bulkington views (2). ‘village’ - an extensive area of mostly 20th century suburban housing that has spread to merge with the once separate (but historically closely related) 2 neighbouring small settlements of Weston in Arden, and Ryton (3). This area is surrounded by greenbelt that acts to separate it from the larger built up areas of , lying less than a mile to the west, and the southern extent of approximately one mile to the north west.

General character and plan form

The general character and form of the conservation area is that of a rectangular- View northwards along Church Street from Chequer Street shaped enclave whose long axis is orientated approximately north-south. Its southerly third is occupied by a short historic village street, and

Existing Conservation Area - Location Plan 3

4 its northern two-thirds by the parish church and burial ground, along with its present and former 4 vicarages and their grounds. The churchyard and grounds to the old vicarage within the conservation area, together with the recreation ground beyond it, contribute to an open and green setting to the church (4). A broad, later 20th century B-Road, the B4029, which carries traffic east-west through the area, now separates the church from Church Street. (5) The northern and southern parts of the area also contain two small modern suburban housing estates. (6&7). Though neither of these possesses any intrinsic Church and churchyard from the south east. interest, they do not intrude into views from Church Street or the church grounds. 5 Landscape setting

The immediate and wider setting of the conservation area is a 20th century suburban landscape of housing estates, 1960s shopping centre, new roads and municipal recreation ground (3). The separate and almost hidden enclave nature of Church Street is felt particularly when approaching the area by car from the east via Liecester Street. The B4029 (School Road) cuts a broad swathe through the Because of the flat topography of the surrounding conservation area. area, and the nature of the road pattern, there are no significant approach views that herald the presence of the conservation area on arrival by 6 car. The only major clue that it is close-by are views of the church tower and churchyard seen from School Road and adjoining areas.

3.2 HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT AND ARCHAEOLOGY

The origins and historic development of the area Surburban housing at the south end of the conservation area. The origins of settlement at Bulkington are probably Anglo-Saxon. The manor is recorded in The Domesday Survey of 1086 as being of 4 7 hides and 1 virgate1, and held by the Count of Meulan (Robert de Beaumont Earl of ) over his tenant Salo2 a Saxon who had held land at nearby Bramcote before the conquest.

1 Hides and virgates are measures of land. The size of a hide was as much as would support one free family and dependants - from 60-120 acres depending on locality. There were four vigates to one hide. 2 Victoria County History for vol vi p50 Surburban housing at the north end of the conservation area. 5 1887 OS Plan 8

As with the vast majority of village settlements south (now occupied by a working-mens club). recorded in the Domesday Survey, the shape and It is tempting to see this large rectangular-shaped form of medieval Bulkington has not been studied area lying close to the Church and bounded by archaeologically. The earliest surviving accurate the principal village streets as a village green that plan of the village we have is recent – part of the has subsequently been infilled with development first 1:2500 OS map series for 1886 (8) – and around its edges. unfortunately we cannot infer much about the earlier form of the settlement from this with The alignment of Church Street, which forms any certainty. This is because village boundaries, the western edge of this putative village green, unlike those in towns, are known to be subject is clearly focused upon the parish Church of St to radical change over relatively short periods James, the village’s oldest standing structure with of time. The form of a village as shown even fabric surviving from the 13th century (9). The on very early maps of 16th and 17th centuries earliest surviving standing secular building in the (where they exist) can be no reliable guide to its street, on the west side, is 3-4 Church Street of earlier medieval layout, or layouts, because of the early 17th century date (10). Leicester Street, fluid nature of boundary change. forming the eastern boundary of the possible green, is historically Bulkington’s principal street. The 19th century plan is nevertheless of interest Before redevelopment in the 1960s, it was lined in that it shows a roughly rectangular shaped mostly with late 18th century and early 19th area of land immediately to the south of the century houses and cottages3 but with one Church, defined on three-and-a-half sides by or two 16th century timber-framed buildings Church Street, Chequer Street, Leicester Street amongst them. and School Lane (8). The backs of house plots lining the east side of Church Street and the Linking these two parallel streets at the south end west side of Leicester Street - the village’s two of the village is Chequer Street. The detour this principal streets - do not directly abut each other ancient lane makes around what was Bulkington but instead have a strip of open ground between Villa (now a modern health clinic) in the late 19th them terminating in a larger open space to the century is interesting. It suggests the presence 6 9 11

St. James’ Parish Church from School Road 25 to 28 Church Street 10 12

3 and 4 Church Street 29 Church Street at a much earlier period of a feature of some The last half of the 18th century and the first importance lying on the axis of the Church and half of the19th century was a period of growth Church Street that necessitated the circuitous for the village, with the population trebling in size diversion of the old road from Bedworth. from c. 750 people to over 2000 between 1751 and 1851.5 Up until enclosure of the open field system around the village in 1770, the livelihood of the While the population grew, the local economy majority of the population was agriculture, though experienced a series of peaks and troughs. The there is now little evidence of the pre-enclosure last years of the Napoleonic war in the second farmhouses that were located in the village. decade of the century saw prosperity in the weaving industry, while the immediate post- Following enclosure and the loss of common war years brought a slump that hit the village grazing rights, incomes from agriculture for many particularly hard. The 1830s were a difficult time of the village population were supplemented or for cottage ribbon weavers, partly because of the replaced by ribbon weaving. This cottage industry introduction of factory production at , had spread from the major centres of production and also because of competition from cheap at Coventry and Bedworth in the late 18th to foreign imports. The 1840s however were again early 19th centuries.4 Associated with it were a boom time and, judging from earlier 20th characteristic buildings, often of three-storeys, in century photographs, many houses were either which the loom-shop located just beneath the re-fronted or rebuilt then. Their chequer-pattern eaves in the top storey was lit by large ‘weavers brick facades (a feature of North Warwickshire windows’. These however were the exceptions buildings of the period) were highly characteristic in the village, most weaving being carried out on of the village buildings up until the middle of hand-looms in ground-floor rooms of cottages 3 and houses such as those at 25-29 Church Street VCH vol vi p48 and Around Bulkington in Old Photographs by John Burton (11 & 12), and no three-storey buildings with 4 Ibid p48 loom-shops survive today. 5 The 18th century figure is an estimate by Peter Wyman in ‘Bulkington Through the Ages’ 7 the last century (13). Continuous rows of them 13 lining the back edges of pavements imparted a harmonious, locally distinctive, and cohesive appearance to the village.

The 1860s saw the collapse of ribbon weaving and a depression in agriculture that led to a fall in population of some 30% by 1891 - this at a time when the national population was increasing substantially. Many left for Coventry, while others emigrated further afield, some leaving empty houses behind them. Not surprisingly there was some poverty6 and work to do for the Local Board of Health established in the parish in1850. Ribbon weaving nevetheless continued well into the 20th century though on the basis of small factory production rather than cottage industry. The last factory to close was in Arden Road in the early 1950s.

From 1894 to 1932 Bulkington had, remarkably, functioned as an independent Urban District despite its small size. The late 19th century and early 20th century saw some new building Chequer patterned brickwork 25 Church Road but even by the 1920s the village had barely expanded beyond its historic limits (14).

1926 OS Plan 14

6 Around Bulkington p. 8 8 The 1930s however saw the beginnings of major change. Bulkington lost its independence as a Local Authority when it became part initially of 15 Rugby Rural District in 1932, and then Bedworth Borough in 1938. The decade also witnessed the start of speculative private housing development that by the 1960s would surround the village with extensive suburban areas.

During the 1960s green field development around the Bulkington was accompanied by the redevelopment of much of the village itself. The majority of its distinctive traditional chequer-board brick houses were swept away and replaced with standard ‘anywhere’ house types of the period together with a small shopping precinct in Leicester Street - the heart of the old village. The latter is typical of the uncompromising style and poor visual quality of many 1960s developments that paid little or no attention to the traditional scale, form, and materials of existing buildings in the surrounding area. The Church and its precinct was physically divorced from Church Street in 1978 when a new east-west distributor road linking School Church Street - A shallow curving street aligned on the church Road and Bedworth Road replaced an ancient tower footpath. This was connected to Coventry Lane to the south by another new short link road -the B4109- running parallel to, and west of, Church 16 Street. By the 1980s only the latter was left as a street with any sense of historic continuity despite the new roads round about, though here too a number of its more significant houses had either been lost or were threatened with demolition. That threat led directly to the designation of the Bulkington Conservation area in 1985, which sought to protect Nos. 25-28 Church Street from destruction. New housing development has however continued both within and adjacent to its boundaries resulting in the further erosion of St. James’ Church from School Street the character and setting of this small surviving remnant of the historic village centre.

Archaeology 17

The historic environment record (HER) kept by Warwickshire Museum Services holds data on archaeological sites and finds of cultural heritage interest in the County. The record for Bulkington is sparse with only three entries. The first very broadly indicates the possible extent of medieval settlement surmised from the 1887 OS map and existing hedge boundaries. The other two records relate to standing buildings – The modern vicarage intrudes into the green space around the the medieval parish church of St James, and the church 9 Congregational Chapel of 1811 in School Road outside the conservation area. 18

3.3 SPATIAL ANALYSIS

Character and interrelationship of spaces within the area

There are two principal types of space within the conservation area today. The first is the gently curving corridor space of Church Street, still relatively well defined by buildings in parts along its edges and whose axis is centered on Lack of enclosure to the street at the north end of Church Street the church (15). The second is the green space associated with the church and former vicarage (16) into which a modern suburban-style vicarage has intruded (17). Cutting across and separating 19 the two is a third type of ill-defined space created by the construction of the recent east-west distributor-road that has no intrinsic interest and which detracts from the integrity of the conservation area. It has severed the previously intimate historical and physical connection between the street and church precinct, and removed houses that once provided greater enclosure and definition of the street edges.

Before the 1960s the spatial enclosure of Church Street was much more strongly defined by almost Shopfront to 10 Church Street continuous rows of houses to both sides and with houses built either directly on, or very close, gradually unfolding sequential views of buildings to the back edges of the footpaths. that terminate with the Church as focal point, is a classic piece of English village townscape Today there a number of gaps resulting from composition. (15) demolitions that have either not been replaced or which have been redeveloped with the front elevation of the new building set well back 3.4 CHARACTER ANALYSIS behind the historic building line. Where the latter has occurred there is generally an absence of Past uses and effect on plan form and compensatory street enclosure in the form of buildings boundary walls or hedges so that cars can be parked in forecourt areas (18). Historically the most important uses are those that are still represented – the church use of Key views lands to the north of School Road, and the small houses and cottages of villagers along the The most important views are those looking street itself. The latter are, of course, no longer northward along Church Street from its southern associated with a living from the land or with end towards the tower of St James. It is from cottage industry, but provide accommodation for here, with the 3&4 Church Street and 25-28 indigenous families and more recent incomers Church Street flanking the foreground on the left who commute to work in surrounding areas. and right, that one gets the best impression of an The most significant and locally distinctive historic village street. The townscape of curving influence for the conservation area is that of the street bounded by houses and cottages leading 18th and early 19th century local silk weaving the eye towards the church tower and offering industry on the appearance of front elevations 10 of some surviving cottages of the period (25-29 Church Street – see below) Evidence of a departed 19th c village shop is 20 provided by the surviving Victorian shopfront to 10&10a Church Street (19).

The qualities of the buildings and their contribution to the area.

Listed Buildings

These are buildings afforded statutory protection because of their national architectural and historic importance. The church in particular makes a vital contribution to the special architectural and historic interest of the conservation area.

• Church of St James, School Road. Grade 2* The high west stone tower dating from the mid to late 14th century forms the focal point and landmark feature of the conservation area on which Church Street is aligned. (20) Its earliest surviving fabric comprises parts of the nave and aisles that date from the 13th century, while its chancel dates from the 14th century. The St. James’ Church from the east architect GT Robinson heavily restored these elements in the , and the tower was restored in the early 20th century. 21 • Chest tombs in the churchyard to St Jame’s Church. Grade 2

A pair of rare 17th century sandstone chest tombs with corner balusters standing in front of the church. (21 & 22) Though visually they do not have prominence in the conservation area they are a very important part of its historical value.

• Wrought iron railings to the churchyard. (23) Chest Tomb In addition to their intrinsic architectural and historic interest, the railings define important historic boundaries to the church precinct. They are in poor condition and largely obscured from 22 view by hedging.

• 3&4 Church Street.(24) A late 16th or early 17th century timber-framed house built in the vernacular tradition. Its exterior makes a very important historical and architectural contribution to the streetscape despite some adverse changes such as the painting of timbers in brown gloss paint and infill panels that project forward of the Chest Tomb framing. 11 Key unlisted buildings making a positive contribution 23 Buildings in this category are considered to make an important contribution to the special interest of the area

• 25-28 Church Street (25)

Outwardly this appears to be a row of 18th century cottages amalgamated and re-fronted in chequer-pattern brickwork in the early-mid 19th century to give a unified appearance. There Railings are indications externally that part of the group may originally have been timber-framed but an internal inspection would be needed to confirm 24 this. Several of the properties in the row retain features of the period of re-fronting including early-mid19th century casement windows to Nos.25-27. The relatively large size of ground floor windows indicates these cottages were used for silk ribbon weaving. These were more pronounced on the elevation at ground floor level to No 28 before it was partially rebuilt in the mid-late 20th century.

This substantial and quite imposing traditional 3 and 4 Church Street 18th/19thcentury group with their prominent tall steeply-pitched tiled roofs and mellow patterned brick elevations, make a very important contribution to the character of the conservation 25 area and the threat of their demolition was the primary reason for its establishment in 1985. The chimney-stacks also make an important skyline contribution, whilst the traditional hedge boundaries, though of recent date, provide attractive low level enclosure to the back edge of the footpath.

• 29 Church Street. (12) Probably late 18th or early 19th century in 25 to 28 Church Street origin and, on the evidence of the large ground floor windows, built as a silk weaver’s cottage. It has a modern porch, stained timber windows, 26 and an artificial slate roof. The front elevation is important for its evidence of ribbon weaving, its locally distinctive chequer-board pattern brickwork, and its group value with nos. 25-28.

Other buildings making a positive contribution

Nearly all of these are late18th or 19th century houses but have been subjected to significant alteration. Many changes were made in the 10 and 10A Church Street 12 late 20th century with the benefit of permitted development rights, and have undermined the 27 historic integrity and value of these buildings to varying degrees. They nevertheless still make an important positive contribution to the interest of the conservation area because of their overall form, proportions, surviving period detailing and materials. They constitute a small critical mass of older ‘background’ buildings that still manage to convey the appearance and character of a traditional village street and area. Any further losses among them however would seriously bring into question whether sufficient interest The Old Vicarage resides in the area to warrant its continued conservation area status. 28 • 10 & 10a Church Street. (26) Probably originally a pair of late 18th early 19th century cottages. The southerly unit was converted to a shop and retains a mid to late 19th century shopfront and door case. It has unsympathetic modern stained windows and concrete roof tiles.

• The Old Vicarage. (27) A heavily altered and extended Victorian Tudor-Gothic style former vicarage set in large 24 Church Street mature gardens. The grounds make a significant contribution to the open green setting of the Church. 29 • 24 Church Street. (28) Late 19th century house in red machine-made bricks with terracotta eaves detailing and stone lintels and cills to windows. Plain clay tile roof with end chimney-stacks in blue-brick. Makeshift front iron and lead covered porch-canopy. Modern windows. Coniferous trees planted dangerously close to the front elevation and hiding some of it from view. Original dwarf brick walls to back of footpath. Group value with 25-29 1 School Road Church Street. • 1 School Road. (29) 30 Probably originally a pair of late 18th /early 19th century semi-detached houses now combined to form one. The front elevation has a later central pedimented door-case, and its windows have been replaced with stained timber mock-sashes. The brickwork has been rendered.

• 23 Church Street. (30) Late 19th century house. Its original central front door way has been bricked up to leave a small window opening. The other window openings 23 Church Street 13 31 32

30 and 31 Church Street Trees within churchyard have been partially bricked up to fit off-the- Contribution made by green spaces and peg stained modern windows of unsympathetic trees design. Plain clay tile roof. The churchyard with its grassed areas, trees and • 30 and 31 Church Street. (31) hedgerows makes an important contribution to Now two, originally three, very heavily altered the character and appearance of the area (32) as houses. The white rendered house with roof do the gardens to the old vicarage. They provide parallel with the street again appears to be an the necessary space for the establishment of large amalgamation of two cottages that most likely mature tree groups including yew, cedar, oak, ash, date from the late 18th or early 19th century. lime, chestnut, and sycamore that form a green The house with gable at right angles to the backcloth to views northward along Church road appears once to have been part of the Street and along the footpath forming the eastern cottage range and may have started as such boundary of the conservation area. (33) before being extended in front at right angles to The trees in the grounds of the Health Clinic the street. The major elevations of both have situated to the south of Chequer Street on the been rendered, and plastic windows have been axis of Church Street (34) were the reason for inserted. The roof to the house with gable at the inclusion of this parcel of land in the original right angles to the street has been recovered in designation. They were considered to form “a concrete tiles. The building is of marginal positive crucial element in the [southerly] view down the interest on the basis of its still-recognisable street.”7 historic form, traditional proportions and Trees subject of tree preservation orders include remaining traditional building materials. It also the large Wellingtonia in the grounds of the occupies a prominent corner location at the Health Clinic and a number in the churchyard entrance to Church Street from Chequer Street. 3.5 THE EXTENT OF INTRUSION OR The public realm DAMAGE (NEGATIVE FACTORS) The footpath and the road to Church Street and the footpath along the east side of the churchyard The twentieth century has unfortunately are all surfaced with ‘black- top’ tarmacdam and provided more than its fair share of intrusive or the roads are edged with concrete kerbs. Whilst damaging features. The most damaging in the these commonplace materials are utilitarian designated area is the presence of the B - Road in appearance, their familiarity and simplicity built before designation, and arguably the housing means that they do not appear incongruous and estate to the west of Church Street constructed generally their presence does not detract from shortly afterwards. In mitigation, the houses in the appearance of the public realm. the latter were at least of low height so that they were not visible from most of Church Street The grass verge that terminates the street, itself. But the views from the B- Road within the however, is poor visually. An insensitively sited current area are undeniably poor and the access and lamp standard of poor appearance is set roads off Church Street erode the sense of directly on the main axis of the street. 7 Designation Report November 1985 Para. 3.6 14 33 34

Leafy footpaths to the east of the Church Specimen Beech tree at the south end of Church Road

enclosure. Other unfortunate intrusions include window and double-glazing salesmen have the modern vicarage which is very suburban seen all but a few old timber windows replaced in appearance and which breaks up the green with often poorly designed replacements in setting to the church, and the design and siting unsympathetic materials. Good quality brick of housing in Church Street, which again was elevations have been rendered over, often mainly of suburban appearance and disregarded to mask changes to window openings or to the established street building lines. Also alien in identify and reinforce ownership of amalgamated character but sited at the northern end of the cottages, and traditional roof materials (natural conservation area and quite self-contained, is the slates and plain clay tiles) have been replaced with housing area of Barbidge Close, built on formerly cheaper substitutes. Church owned land. Post-war housing development has failed to recognize the importance of maintaining 3.6 THE EXISTENCE OF NEUTRAL AREAS continuous built frontages on the traditional 19 & 20 Church Street are regarded as having a building lines in the street, and the designs of neutral impact on the area. Although a traditional individual properties have until recently failed to building originally, it has undergone such reflect the local vernacular styles but instead have substantial remodeling that it appears now as a employed anonymous suburban styles with bogus suburban house of 1960s character. ‘heritage’ features applied superficially.

3.7 PROBLEMS, PRESSURES AND There is little capacity for further change in terms CAPACITY FOR CHANGE additional new houses within the area, with the possible exception of the frontage adjacent and Unlisted houses in the conservation area have to the north of no. 22 Church Street. suffered severely from changes made by owners over the past 50 years many of them irreversible. Pressure to improve thermal performance of windows and vigorous campaigns from plastic

15 4. SUGGESTED BOUNDARY CHANGES the conservation area should be encouraged. These should follow original or period designs - It is suggested that the Barbidge Close housing especially for windows. estate be excluded from the conservation area (35) • The reinstatement of traditional materials to It would also be desirable to exclude the area of buildings - especially for roofs, windows, and bungalows west of Church Street and south of doors, - should be encouraged. School road, but this would result in difficulties in identifying clear boundaries for the west side of • Surviving period features and traditional the conservation area. On balance it is probably materials to all houses identified as making a expedient to retain this within the area, but views positive contribution to the conservation area of residents would be welcomed on this issue. and fronting a public highway or open space, should be protected from adverse alteration PART TWO and removal by the introduction of an Article 4 Direction – see Appendix A (to come into 5. MANAGEMENT PROPOSALS effect upon formal approval of this document for public consultation for an interim period prior to 5.1 Introduction possible confirmation on a permanent basis An important function of the conservation area • The retention of traditional brick boundary appraisal is to provide the basis for proposals walls, hedges, and railings should be encouraged for the future care and development of the (through the Article 4 where applicable) heritage value and interest of the area. This will especially where enclosure to the street is need to give due consideration to constraints important visually. Any opportunities to acting against such proposals and the resources supplement and strengthen hedgerows should be likely to be available for them. The proposals taken. should ‘take the form of a mid-long term strategy setting objectives for addressing the issues and • The repair and maintenance of the listed railings recommendations for action arising from the around the churchyard should be a high priority. appraisal and identifying any further or more detailed work needed for their implementation’.8 • The establishment of a tree management Work on the production of the Local programme between the Council and owners Development Framework for Nuneaton is including the parish church should be considered. currently in progress. It is intended that both the appraisal and management proposals contained in • Improvement to the public realm should be this document will inform the core strategy and sought to reinforce the village character of the later SPD policies for the LDF. Public consultation conservation area when resources are available, on these proposals will be in accordance with particularly the treatment of the north end the statement of community involvement so as of Church Street. The lighting column here to meet the requirements of the LDF and ensure should be re-sited and consideration given to they carry the appropriate weight in future appropriate landscape treatment. Raised planters planning decisions. or trees set on the axis of the street impeding views of the Church and its tower should be Suggested Management Proposals for avoided. Any public realm proposals should be in Public Consultation accord with English Heritage guidance contained in their publication Streets for All (West • There should be a strong presumption in favour Midlands). of retaining all buildings identified as making a positive contribution to the conservation area. • Improvements to the treatment of green open These are shown coloured orange and red on space both within and adjoining the conservation the Townscape Appraisal map (36). area where it impacts on its setting should be investigated. • The reinstatement of missing or badly altered period architectural features to buildings 8 Guidance on the Management of Conservation Areas identified as making a positive contribution to English Heritage 16 Proposed conservation area boundary changes 35

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18 APPENDIX A SCHEDULE

NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH 1. Development falling within Part 1 of the BOROUGH COUNCIL Schedule to the Order. The erection, alteration or removal of a chimney TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING on a dwellinghouse or on a building within the (GENERAL PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT) curtilage of a dwellinghouse. ORDER 1995 DIRECTION MADE UNDER ARTICLE 4(2) 2. Development falling within the following specified Classes of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to BULKINGTON CONSERVATION AREA the Order.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Nuneaton CLASS A and Bedworth Borough Council made a Direction The enlargement, improvement or other alteration of under Article 4(2) of the Town and Country Planning a dwellinghouse where any part of the enlargement, (General Permitted Development) Order1995, improvement or alteration would front a highway. as amended, in respect of specified parts of the CLASS C Bulkington Conservation Area. Those said parts of the The alteration of a dwellinghouse roof slope where Conservation Area to which the Direction apply are: the alteration would be to a roof slope which fronts a highway. CHURCH ROAD No.s 10&10a, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31. CLASS D SCHOOL ROAD The erection or construction of a porch outside any No. 1. external door of a dwellinghouse where the external door fronts a highway. The effect of the Direction is to direct that over the land so identified the permission granted by Article 3 CLASS E of the said Order shall not apply to the descriptions The provision within the curtilage of a dwelling house of development set out in the Schedule below, and of any building, or enclosure required for a purpose that said development shall not be carried out unless incidental to the enjoyment of the dwellinghouse permission is granted under part III of the Town and as such, or the maintenance, improvement or other Country Planning Act 1990, as amended. alteration of such a building or enclosure which would front a highway or where the part of the building or The Direction was made by the Council’s Cabinet on enclosure maintained, improved or altered fronts a July 2008.The Direction will come into force on th highway. 2008. The Direction shall remain in force for a period of 6 months unless the Borough Council of Nuneaton CLASS H and Bedworth confirms it permanently within this 6 The installation, alteration or replacement of a satellite month period. In the event of such confirmation the antenna on a part of a dwellinghouse, or on a building Direction will be similarly notified. within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse, which in either case fronts a highway. A copy of the Direction and plan defining the land affected is available to view at Nuneaton 3. Development falling within the following Town Hall, Coventry Street, Nuneaton (Mondays – specified classes of Schedule 2, Part 2 of Thursdays 9am – 5pm, Fridays 9am – 4.45pm) and the Order. is also published on the Council’s website at www. nuneatonandbedworth.gov.uk. CLASS A The erection or alteration of a gate, wall or fence Representations concerning the Direction may be within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse that would made to Chief Executive’s Department, Town Hall, front or is fronting a highway. Coventry Street, Nuneaton North Warwickshire, CLASS C within 21 days from the Direction coming into force The painting of the exterior of any part of a (Between 2008 and 2008) dwellinghouse or any building or enclosure within the curtilege of a dwellinghouse which fronts a highway. 19 APPENDIX B Plan and list of properties affected by the Article 4 (2) Direction introduced in 2008

List of Properties

CHURCH STREET No.s 10 & 10a, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31.

SCHOOL ROAD No. 1.

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