Revised and updated 2012 INDEX Introduction page 1 History page 2 Hyde Today page 3 & 4 Landscape page 5 Map page 6 Commoning page 7 Settlements page 7,8 and 9 Map page 10 Building and Materials page 11,12 & 13 Conservatories page 14 Highways and Traffic page 15 & 16 Aerial map page 17 Appendix 1 page 18 – planning policies This design statement was designed and drawn up by a group of local residents, on behalf of the Parish Council as part of the Parish Plan implementation. Design guidelines throughout the document complement and expand on the planning policies in the National Park Authority’s Core Strategy (see Appendix 1). Acknowledgements Residents’ views and survey results - The Parish Plan. Landscape section – edited from the Landscape Assessment conducted for Hyde Parish Plan by Margaret Parslow. Grants for printing – New Forest District Council (original version) and New Forest National Park Authority (revised edition). Help with planning implications – New Forest District Council and National Park Authority planning departments. This updated version approved by Hyde Parish Council on 14 December 2011. Adopted by the New Forest National Park Authority as a Supplementary Planning Document on… INTRODUCTION Hyde Parish, located in South West This revised Design Statement has been Hampshire, is made up of several thousand drawn up in co-operation with the planning acres of the New Forest and contains eight department of the New Forest National hamlets, one of which, Hyde, gives its Park Authority and is consistent with the name to the Parish. Nearly all of the Core Strategy planning policies for the Parish is in the New Forest National Park. Park. A small part of the parish is outside The Parish measures some 6 kilometres the National Park and is covered by New from East to West and 3 kilometres from Forest District Council’s planning policies. North to South. In the East almost three Reference should therefore also be made to quarters of the Parish is open heath and the District’s adopted Core Strategy. forest with no roads, buildings or conventional agriculture whereas the The Design Statement is intended to be a Western fringe is mostly grazing land practical tool capable of influencing design sloping down into the Avon Valley. and development in the parish. We hope that it will be formally adopted by the The Parish undertook the production of a National Park Authority as a Parish Plan in 2004/05 and, as part of this, Supplementary Planning Document for This design statement has a single aim - to conducted a survey of all inhabitants of the that part of the parish within the National protect and preserve the character of Hyde Parish. The survey was itself the result of Park. It follows national guidance on Parish, in keeping with the wishes of meetings with all the parish groups and Village Design Statements which states residents. Each new Planning Application also of two open meetings for all that ‘VDS’s are intended to influence the needs to be considered on its merits and on inhabitants. Some 456 questionnaires operation of the statutory planning system, individual circumstances. Good design and were returned, almost 60% of those so that new development is in harmony choice of materials needs to be decided in distributed. The full details of this Survey with its setting and makes a positive the context of the local environment into and an analysis of the results can be contribution to the immediate which the new development will fit. viewed in the Parish Plan. This Design environment’. Statement is based on the survey carried The measure of the success of the VDS will out and is a reflection of the views Where changes fall outside of the planning be the extent to which new buildings sit in expressed and thus carries the endorsement parameters it is hoped that residents will harmony with the environment of Hyde and of local residents. note the collective views of the community win the approval of its inhabitants and will preserve the essential character of the existing environment. 1 HISTORY The Forest has been the abiding What follows is a very abbreviated history of the The First World War brought many changes and influence on the Parish and is the Parish of Hyde; a much fuller version can be by its end the owners of the three major estates found in the Parish Plan. (Eyre Coote, the Coventry family and the Earl of single most important attribute for the Normanton) had sold off much of their property majority of its inhabitants. The The civil parish of Hyde dates only from 1979; in the Parish. This allowed new purchasers from changes which have taken place in its however there has been human habitation in the the growing middle class to buy land and many management have always affected it – area for many thousands of years. Remains to become Commoners. The post-war years saw they will continue to do so now that from the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron big changes in the Forest – the 1949 Act widened the area has become a National Park. Age have been found locally as well as the eligibility for election of Commoners to the significant evidence of Roman occupation. By Verderers’ Court. In 1964 a further Act enabled 1301 there are records which identify both Hyde the establishment of cattle grids at all access and Frogham as place names and by the early points to the perambulation affording protection 1500s there are several references to Gorley and to Commoners’ stock. This Act also redefined Blissford. The oldest buildings in the Parish date the Perambulation to its present position to from this time. Later there were many legends include the Commons. about the Frogham area being a centre for smuggling dating from the 18th Century. Between the 1960s and the 1990s many changes took place, there was pressure on building and By the 19th Century Hyde was still not a wealthy house prices rapidly increased as more area and was described by one inhabitant of “incomers” came to live here. The New Forest Fordingbridge as “nothing more than a collection District Local Plan led to the building restrictions of the rude rough huts of the inhabitants of the which are now in place. New Forest”! Education and religion both th Holy Ascension – Hyde played an important and linked role at this time – The end of the 20 Century saw significant with Ibsley 1850 Frogham Chapel was originally a non-conformist community efforts from incomers and original school for 70 pupils and was also registered for families working together – one such effort was worship. When the school closed the building the fund raising and building of the church room. was refurbished as the chapel we have today. Another arose when the old village hall needed A listed barn - Hyde The Anglican Church of the Holy Ascension was to be replaced; the whole village raised funds and built in 1854 and a Church of England school co-operated in the building of the new hall. A was established on the site on which Hungerford further event, which began in 1971 and which Chapel had stood; a new chapel was built in continues today was Frogham Fair – still run Stuckton in 1886 and the school was rebuilt in almost entirely by locals and still a major 1885. By the end of the Century all of our community effort. current hamlets, except Furzehill, were established communities. A listed barn 2 HYDE TODAY Recommendations Churches and Chapels It is considered vital to the At the moment a significant proportion of the ongoing development of the The local religious establishments are actively workforce is self-employed and some Parish that the opportunities supported by residents and offer not only commute to nearby towns. Around a third of created by a new balance in opportunities for regular worship but also a the population is retired. society is recognised and flourishing variety of social activities. They encouraged so that residents, contribute significantly to the quality of life in However as the age and occupation profiles of st especially younger ones, can find the parish. residents change in the 21 century, new employment opportunities within needs and opportunities begin to evolve in the the local environment and share Group and Club activities area. These are principally directed towards the benefits they bring. the provision of goods and services for A very diverse range of social group activities inhabitants and visitors. Some of these are:- supports the talents and interests of all ages. Restaurants, Tea Rooms and Licensed Hyde War Memorial Parish Hall Premises A Garden Centre and Local Shop Acting as a focal point within the community, Recreational Activities – Horse Riding, ‘The Hall’ provides the venue for an extensive Cycling, Walking range of community activities. It is supported Land and Garden maintenance by fundraising efforts from the community Building Trades and Property Maintenance and has recently invested in a significant Catering and Event Organisation programme of improvements. Home Care and Support Hyde War Memorial Village Hall Industry and Employment These are characterised as small, often family- run enterprises located in the immediate area There is no industry in the Parish and no and employing local staff. With the creation major employer. Employment within the of National Park status it is likely that visitor Parish is mainly related to horses, other forms numbers will increase and with this a demand of agriculture, including commoning and for more activities to cater for their needs. tourism. Frogham Chapel 1883 3 School There is a flourishing Church of England Residents’ Views primary school in Hyde, which was shown by the Parish Plan to be much valued by the The Parish Plan showed that the village inhabitants.