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NUN MONKTON Conservation Area Character Appraisal Nun Monkton Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved 9 December 9 December 2009 p. 2009 29 Contents Page 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 Objectives ........................................................................................................................ 2 2. Planning policy framework ............................................................................................ 2 3 Historic development & archaeology ............................................................................. 3 4 Location & landscape setting ........................................................................................ 4 5. Landscape character .................................................................................................... 5 6. The form & character of buildings ................................................................................. 9 7. Character area analysis ............................................................................................. 13 Map 1: Historic development ........................................................................................... 16 Map 2: Conservation Area boundary (with suggested amendments) .............................. 17 Map 3: Analysis & concepts ............................................................................................. 18 Map 4: Landscape analysis ............................................................................................. 19 Appendix A: 1 Management strategy .................................................................................................. 20 2 Monitoring & review ..................................................................................................... 20 3 Maintaining quality ...................................................................................................... 20 4 Conservation Area boundary review ........................................................................... 20 5 The management of change ....................................................................................... 21 6 Opportunities for enhancement .................................................................................. 21 Checklist to manage change ........................................................................................ 25 Appendix B: Public consultation ..................................................................................... 26 This and other Planning documents are or will be made available in large copy print, audiocassette, Braille or languages other than English. If you require the document in one of these formats, please contact us (tel. 01423 556586 or email [email protected] ) p. 30 Nun Monkton Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved 9 December 2009 1 Introduction 1.1 Conservation Area Appraisals aim to 1.3 The main function of the Conservation 1979. The boundary was amended define and analyse the special interest Area Appraisal is to ensure that any works on the 24th November 1994 when the which constitutes the character and in the Conservation Area have regard to conservation area was reviewed and, appearance of a place. It is these the special qualities of the area and to following public consultation on this qualities which warrant the designation of devise a strategy to protect these qualities. Appraisal, the boundary was amended a Conservation Area. This Appraisal has The Appraisal will help us understand again on 9 December 2009. The Appraisal been approved by Harrogate Borough the impact that development proposals aims to describe Nun Monkton as it is Council and forms an “evidence base” for would have on the Conservation Area and today and identify the special character the Local Development Framework (LDF). whether these are acceptable and/ and distinctiveness of its setting, buildings Consequently, it is a material consideration or appropriate. and open spaces. Having identified those when determining applications for devel- special qualities, the Appraisal examines opment, considering planning appeals or 1.4 The assessment of the area’s special whether opportunities exist to protect and proposing works for the preservation or architectural or historic interest is based enhance its character. enhancement of the area. It also forms on a careful and objective analysis of the basis for a subsequent Management the area, using a method of analysis 1.6 By identifying what makes Nun Monkton Strategy, which will contain proposals recommended by English Heritage. special or distinctive it is suggested and policies for the conservation and Various qualities are looked at including: that any future change, whether to indi- enhancement of the area. historical development, building materials, vidual buildings, building groups or the and relationships between buildings village as a whole, will be based on this 1.2 The Appraisal provides information and and open spaces. Appraisals aim to be understanding of the past and the present guidance to those wishing to carry out comprehensive but the omission of any character of the settlement. In this way, works in the Conservation Area whether particular building, feature or space we can manage future change to ensure or not they require planning approval. should not be taken to imply that it makes a positive contribution towards So, it is a useful source of information for it is of no interest. preserving or enhancing Nun Monkton’s property owners, agents, applicants and special character. members of the public who live or work in 1.5 Nun Monkton Conservation Area was Nun Monkton. originally designated on the 8th June Nun Monkton Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved 9 December 2009 p. 1 2 Planning policy framework Objectives 2.1 Local authorities have a duty to designate context of the description contained in The principal objectives of the “areas of special architectural or historic these appraisals will be an important Appraisal are: interest, the character or appearance factor in deciding whether a proposal has of which it is desirable to preserve or an adverse affect on the character and to define and record enhance” as conservation areas under appearance of a conservation area and, Nun Monkton’s special section 69 of the Planning (Listed therefore, whether it is contrary to saved character and interest; Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act Local Plan Policy HD3 (which is the key 1990. The same Act also requires local policy for the control of development in to raise public awareness planning authorities to periodically review conservation areas). The scope of Policy of the aims and objectives conservation areas. HD3 also covers development proposals of the conservation area outside a conservation area, which would 2.2 Government guidance on all development designation and stimulate affect its setting or views into or out of the affecting conservation areas is set out conservation area. their involvement in the in Planning Policy Guidance Note 15: protection of its character; Planning and the Historic Environment 2.4 Involving the community and raising to identify what is worthy (PPG15). PPG 15 advises local public awareness is an integral part of of preservation to aid authorities to define the elements that the Appraisal process and needs to be make the special character or appearance approached in a pro-active and innovative understanding; of conservation areas in order to provide way. Community involvement helps to to assess the action that a sound basis on which to develop bring valuable public understanding and may be necessary to local planning policies, preservation or ‘ownership’ to proposals for the area. A safeguard this special enhancement strategies and to make report, included in the appendix, details interest development control decisions. how the local community was involved and the contribution it has made to this to identify opportunities 2.3 In determining planning applications Appraisal. for enhancement. for development within conservation areas and applications for conservation area consent, the Council will give considerable weight to the content of conservation area character appraisals. The consideration of proposals in the p. 2 Nun Monkton Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved 9 December 2009 3 Historic development & archaeology 3.1 Nun Monkton’s name derives from the old building in the village. During the Second English “tún (homestead) of the monks”. World War, and because of a shortage Nun Monkton was Monkton long before of staff, the Priory was converted into the nunnery there was founded. Nun a convalescent home for the sick and Monkton is recorded as Monechetune wounded by the Red Cross and St. Johns in the Domesday Book under Lands of Ambulance Brigade. Osbern de Arches. 3.4 Nun Monkton is fortunate in retaining its 3.2 The area has fertile clay soil, rich maypole around which village activities meadows, woodland and moor. The land centered during the middle ages. It is still at the junction of the Rivers Nidd and used today for village days and festivals. Ouse was an ideal site for the monastery, The current pole, of Finnish Pine, ws which was built in the seventh and eighth erected in 2006 to replace its predecessor. The village school. centuries. The monastery flourished Its top is approximately 27m (88 feet 5¼ until it was destroyed by the Danes. A inches)