VILLAGE TRUST

Port Sunlight Local Listed Building Consent Order (LLBCO)

A Guide to Understanding and Using the LLBCO

Efficient, transparent consent for changes to the listed houses of Port Sunlight.

This brochure introduces the LLBCO, provides definitions of key words and describes each class of work included in the LLBCO, the general and specific conditions for doing works under the LLBCO and the required documents to support a Notice to do works under the LLBCO.

Primrose Hill, c. 1960, Port Sunlight Museum Collection. Introduction Wirral Council and Port Sunlight Village Trust have worked in partnership, with financial support from Historic England, to develop a Local Listed Building Consent Order (LLBCO) for Port Sunlight to streamline the consent process for residents, to more effectively manage change and to regain lost heritage features in the village.

This section explains the LLBCO basics – where it came from, why we have developed and adopted a LLBCO, what works are covered, and what it means for property owners in Port Sunlight.

What is a Local Listed Building What works are included in the Port Consent Order (LLBCO)? Sunlight LLBCO? Definition: A statutory tool established by the The following works are included in Listed Building Consent is Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act the LLBCO: formal written permission from of 2013 (the Act) that enables local  Replace inappropriate or severely a local planning authority to planning authorities to adopt ‘blanket’ deteriorated carry out works to alter, extend Listed Building Consent for specific  Yard gates or demolish a listed building and items of work in a set area.  Rear doors site or any protected part of that  Rear windows building or site. Why was a LLBCO developed for Port Sunlight?  Install or relocate a satellite dish in an  Port Sunlight has a high appropriate location.  Once Wirral Council has confirmed concentration of Grade II Listed receipt of a completed LLBCO properties in private ownership. I would like to use the LLBCO. What Notice Form (including all required procedure should I follow? supporting documents), then the  Analysis of Listed Building  First you’ll need to determine if Council will have 28 calendar days Consent applications for Port the works you propose qualify to make a decision regarding the Sunlight showed frequent consent (meet the criteria) for the LLBCO. proposed works. applications for the same three Contact the Trust’s Conservation classes of work. Adviser and/or Wirral Council’s  You will then receive a notice to Conservation Officer for informal proceed and works can commence.  The majority of enforcement issues advice. in Port Sunlight cover the same Any works carried out prior to receiving classes of work.  If the works you propose appear to notice from the Council are done at qualify for the LLBCO, then you your own risk and enforcement action  The strong partnership between the will need to complete a LLBCO may be taken if the works completed building conservation team at Wirral Notice Form and submit it to Wirral before a Notice decision is made are Council and the Trust, including Council with all required supporting not found to be appropriate. investment by both organisations, documents. (See sections below enabled the development of for information regarding required proactive planning tools for Port supporting documents.) Sunlight.

2 Port Sunlight Local Listed Building Consent Order (LLBCO) What will it cost to submit a LLBCO Notice Form to the Council? There is no application or filing fee.

What if the works I propose are not covered by the LLBCO? If works you propose are not covered by the LLBCO (i.e. replacement of front windows or replacement of New tool, still a last resort inappropriate or severely deteriorated Traditional features should be repaired, rear windows with a window type not not replaced. under the LLBCO), then you Below: specified Severely deteriorated must make an application for Full Listed windows were Replacement is a last resort option. Building Consent. replaced at the ground and first On-going maintenance of original features is floor with new wood the best management practice. The LLBCO sounds great, but the windows to match the works I would like to do are not originals, 2015. included. Are there plans to adopt more LLBCOs for Port Sunlight or to amend or expand the existing one? The LLBCO will be reviewed annually. If the LLBCO proves successful for Port Sunlight and Wirral Council, then the Trust will work with the Council to develop and adopt new LLBCOs to cover additional classes of work.

How do I apply for Listed Building Consent? Applications for Listed Building Consent are made through the planning department at Wirral Council. You can complete an application on-line and view guidance documents at www.wirral.gov.uk/planning- and-building/planning/ listed-building-consent. The Council’s Conservation Officer can provide pre-application advice for a fee. The Trust’s Conservation Adviser is available to provide advice for free, but the final decision to grant consent is with the Council.

Port Sunlight Local Listed Building Consent Order (LLBCO) 3 Is the Work I Want to do Included in the LLBCO?

The following section is designed to help you better understand how to use the LLBCO. Specific details for each class of work are found on the pages to follow.

Is your property included in the Does my rear window/rear door/yard LLBCO? gate qualify to be replaced under the Definition: Only listed houses (detached, terrace LLBCO? Inappropriate features are those and semi-detached houses) in the Rear windows, rear doors and yard that do not contribute to the Port Sunlight Conservation Area are gates to be replaced under the LLBCO heritage character of the Listed included in the LLBCO. To find out must meet one of the following property. For most Port Sunlight for certain if your property is included, threshold criteria to qualify: houses, these are features which please refer to the LLBCO Appendix 1,  The existing features are are not original to the property Site Plan and Appendix 2, Schedule of inappropriate. or which are not appropriate Addresses. replicas of original features.  The existing features are severely Examples of inappropriate Does the proposed work effect the deteriorated (more than 3/5th features include uPVC windows, front or sides of your house? beyond repair). mass-produced ‘heritage’ If the proposed work effects the front windows that do not replicate or sides of your house, or any features I am still uncertain if my rear windows/ original details, picture windows, aside from rear windows, rear doors, rear door/yard gate meets the criteria poorly detailed yard gates and yard gates or satellite dishes, then for replacement under the LLBCO. aluminium doors. you must apply for full Listed Building Can I get a second opinion? Consent. You cannot use the LLBCO Yes! In fact, both the Council and the for works other than those specifically Trust recommend that you seek advice described in the LLBCO. prior to making a LLBCO Notice. Get in touch with the Conservation Officer I would like to replace an inappropriate at the Council or the Conservation rear window, but not with the one Adviser at the Trust to get advice on specified in the LLBCO. Is this work whether the feature to be replaced covered under the LLBCO? qualifies under the LLBCO. No. Only the window types, door types and yard gate specified in the LLBCO can be used. If you would like to use something other than what is specified in the LLBCO, you MUST apply for full Listed Building Consent. uPVC windows are inappropriate and were installed without consent. To address this enforcement issue, these windows could be replaced under the LLBCO.

4 Port Sunlight Local Listed Building Consent Order (LLBCO) Left: Photograph of the construction of a terrace block on Primrose Hill, c. 1906. Port Sunlight Museum Collection.

A note about windows

Not ALL rear windows are included in the Below: Aluminium LLBCO. For more information on rear windows with false window replacement and to find out if your glazing bars are rear windows are included in the LLBCO, inappropriate To address this enforcement issue, please see Appendix 3: Rear Window Types these windows could Schedule and pages 9 to 11 of this brochure. be replaced under the LLBCO.

Definition: Severely Deteriorated features are those where more than 3/5th of the total unit are beyond repair. If a window, door or yard gate deteriorates to this point, it is no longer cost effective to repair the feature. When assessing the deteriorated conditions of windows and doors, all of the following elements must be taken into consideration: frame, sill or threshold, glazing bars, rails and stiles, glass, and ironmongery.

Above and right: Examples of severely deteriorated casement windows. These windows could be replaced under the LLBCO.

Port Sunlight Local Listed Building Consent Order (LLBCO) 5 Rear Doors

Are rear doors in the listed houses of I would like a partially glazed rear Above: Period photograph of original, solid, Port Sunlight protected features? door. Can I replace my existing timber framed rear door from Port Sunlight, Yes! Alterations, additions, demolition inappropriate or severely deteriorated 1901. Port Sunlight Museum Collection. or replacement of rear doors in Port rear door with a partially glazed door? Below: An architectural technologist Sunlight requires consent from Wirral Yes! The way we use our homes measures an original glazed door at a Council and permission from the Trust. has evolved. Where yards were Bolton Road house. once utilitarian places, they are now What did the original rear doors look considered outdoor ‘reception rooms.’ like? How will I know if I have one? In recognition of this fact, Port Sunlight Most Port Sunlight houses were built Village Trust and Wirral Council have with solid framed wood doors. Some developed five different options for houses were built with partially glazed, replacement rear doors that can be framed wood doors. used under the LLBCO. Four doors have glazed units in the upper half of If your door looks like either one of the the door. Please see Appendix 5 for the doors shown on this page, you might approved rear door types. have an original or an appropriate replica of an original Port Sunlight I would like to install a pair of French door. Contact the Trust’s Conservation doors. Can I do so using the LLBCO? Adviser or the Council’s Conservation No. Only rear doors drawn and Officer for advice. specified in Appendix 5 can be used under the LLBCO. Furthermore, no My door doesn’t look like either one of work to doors at the front or sides the original Port Sunlight doors shown of the house can be done under the on this page. Is it inappropriate? LLBCO. If you would like to install a No, not necessarily. Wirral Council door other than what is specified in the and the Trust have given consent to LLBCO, then you will need to make property owners to install wood framed an application for full Listed Building doors with 3, 4, 6, and 9 panes of glass. Consent. Your property might have one of these doors. Contact the Trust’s Conservation Adviser or the Council’s Conservation Officer for advice.

6 Port Sunlight Local Listed Building Consent Order (LLBCO) Above: Rear door drawing (profiles)

Below: Rear door drawing (elevations) Can I replace my inappropriate or severely deteriorated rear door with any of the doors drawn and specified in Appendix 5? Yes! You may install any of the five designs illustrated and specified in Appendix 5. The overall width and height of replacement rear doors will vary from house to house, but all other details should be reproduced as shown in Appendix 5.

What documents are required to make Notice to Wirral Council to use the LLBCO to replace a rear door?  A completed LLBCO Notice Form.

 Colour Photographs. You must submit colour photographs (interior views, exterior views and details of profiles and deteriorated conditions) of the existing door with your completed LLBCO Notice form. These photographs will be used to determine if your door qualifies for replacement under the LLBCO.

Definition: Weather Bar: An applied wood Glazing Bar: Wood sections that Architrave: Interior window or moulding at the exterior base of hold panes of glass in place for windows door surround. the door, used to move water away or doors. from the base of the door. Should be detailed with a drip edge.

Port Sunlight Local Listed Building Consent Order (LLBCO) 7 Yard Gates

Below: Typical boundary wall c. 1960 (top)

Chain link fence/garden added in the middle of the 20th Century (below)

What is a yard gate? gates are not included. Any work to When they were originally built, nearly alter boundary treatments in gardens every house in Port Sunlight village had may require planning permission. a yard gate. They were (and still are!) Contact Wirral Council. situated in the brick or stone boundary wall of your property, enclosing the yard What yard gate is approved at the rear or side of your property. under the LLBCO? Only the yard gate illustrated and Are yard gates protected features? specified in Appendix 6 to the According to current planning policies, LLBCO can be used to replace What should my yard both the yard gate and the boundary severely deteriorated or inappropriate gate look like? walls are protected features as they are yard gates under the LLBCO. within the curtilage (boundaries) of the The overall width and height of Ty pical Yard Gate in brick listed property. Alterations, additions replacement yard gates will vary from boundary wall. and demolition of the yard gates and house to house, but all other details boundary walls require consent from should be reproduced as shown in Wirral Council. Appendix 6.

My house does not have a yard gate What documents are required to or a back boundary wall. Why? make Notice to Wirral Council to use In the middle of the last century, the LLBCO to replace a yard gate? Unilever Merseyside Limited (UML)  A completed LLBCO Notice carried out extensive alterations to Form. Port Sunlight, including demolition of back boundary walls and provision  Colour Photographs. You must Inappropriate yard gates for gardens. Many original boundary submit colour photographs walls and yard gates were removed (interior views, exterior views and at this time. UML installed chain link details of profiles and deteriorated fencing with concrete posts to mark the conditions) of the existing yard boundaries of these new gardens. gate with your completed LLBCO Notice form. These photographs Only yard gates installed in boundary will be used to determine if your walls are included in the LLBCO. Chain door qualifies for replacement link fencing, wood fencing and garden under the LLBCO.

8 Port Sunlight Local Listed Building Consent Order (LLBCO) Rear Windows LLBCO Appendix 3: Are rear windows in Port Sunlight’s  For some terrace blocks, no Rear Window Types Schedule listed houses protected features? original rear windows remain Codes Explained Yes! Alterations, additions, demolition and no reliable archival evidence Operation or replacement of rear windows in Port could be found to specify This describes how the Sunlight requires consent from Wirral rear window types. Full Listed replacement windows open. Council and permission from the Trust. Building Consent will be required to replace inappropriate or CT: Casement What did the original windows for my severely deteriorated windows (side hung windows). house look like? in these terrace blocks. If new Unlike rear doors and yard gates, which evidence becomes available, were fairly consistent throughout the then the existing LLBCO could village, the original rear windows for Port be amended to include these Sunlight houses varied considerably. windows. Field work and archival research was done to determine original rear window What do the codes mean in the Rear DH: Double-hung (vertically types for each terrace block. Window Types schedule found in sliding sash windows). Appendix 3? The results of this work are found The Rear Window Types Schedule is in Appendix 3: Rear Window Types arranged alphabetically by street name. Schedule. If your windows match the For rear windows that are included in description found in the appendix, they the LLBCO, there is a code for material are either original windows or replicas of (what the window is made from), the original designs. operation (how the window opens), panes of glass (how many panes of YS: Yorkshire sliding sash My windows do not look anything glass are in each window or sash) and windows (horizontal sliding sash like the windows described for grouping (how many windows make up windows). my property in Appendix 3: Rear an assembly). Window Types Schedule. How were replacement windows selected? In addition to the codes, there are In some instances, no original windows tick boxes to show if the appropriate remain in a terrace block. Archival replacement windows should be drawings and records were reviewed for leaded and to show if the proposed these properties. If a window type could replacement windows are excluded be determined from archival sources, from the LLBCO. FXD: Fixed windows that were then the window type was included in not designed to open. the LLBCO. I know the window type approved under the LLBCO. Now what? My windows are not included in the Once you understand the window type LLBCO. Why? approved for your property (shown  Based on the large scope of work in Appendix 3: Rear Window Types required to identify and specify rear schedule) under the LLBCO, check the window types for Port Sunlight window drawings in Appendix 4 for the AWN: Awning (top hung less common window types were materials and construction approved windows). These windows are excluded from the LLBCO. under the LLBCO. There is one sample not included in the LLBCO. drawing for each type (operation or  The following window types how the window opens) of window are not included in the LLBCO: included in the LLBCO. leaded windows, metal windows and awning windows. The Trust HOWEVER, the windows drawn in and Wirral Council hope to adopt Appendix 4 are technical samples. LLBCOs in future to include these Although replacement windows must window types. use the materials and construction

Port Sunlight Local Listed Building Consent Order (LLBCO) 9 specified in the drawing, appropriate (since front and side windows were What documents are required to make replacement windows for your often more ornamental than those Notice to Wirral Council to use the property may look different. found at the rear). LLBCO to replace rear windows?  A completed LLBCO Notice Form. Your windows may have more or For example, if you are replacing ground fewer panes of glass, the profiles and floor rear windows and no original  Colour Photographs. You must dimensions of the rails, stiles and ground floor windows remain, use submit colour photographs (interior glazing bars may have different shapes original windows found at the first floor views, exterior views and details of and dimensions, and they may be in rear of your property for the dimensions, profiles and deteriorated conditions) larger or smaller groupings. details and profiles for your proposed of the existing windows with your replacement windows. completed LLBCO Notice form. How will I know what my These photographs will be used to replacement windows should look If no original windows (of the type determine if your windows qualify like? specified for your property under the for replacement under the LLBCO. If you have severely deteriorated LLBCO) remain at the rear, you may original windows, your replacement use an original window at the side or  Drawings: You must submit windows must match the details, front of the property if the windows in drawings showing the proposed dimensions and profiles of the existing these locations match the replacement details, dimensions and profiles for original windows. windows specified in Appendix 3: Rear your replacement windows with your Window Types schedule. LLBCO Notice form. If you are replacing an inappropriate window, then your new windows must In some instances, there will not be  A heritage joiner, architect, window match the details, dimensions and a suitable window to copy for your manufacturer or keen property owner profiles of existing original windows replacement windows. The LLBCO can measure and sketch the details for (of the same type) found elsewhere in cannot be used to replace windows in replacement windows. The sketches your house. these circumstances and you will need must show dimensions and be drawn to make an application for full Listed to scale. The following drawings are The most reliable windows will be Building Consent. required to use the LLBCO and to those found at the rear of the property manufacture the windows.

Compare the casement window and sample drawing from LLBCO, Appendix 4 (shown to the right) to the appropriate replacement windows for a Port Sunlight house on Bolton Annotated photograph Road (shown below). Note the difference comparing a window drawing in the number of panes of glass, the from Appendix 4 to the dimensions and the profiles. appropriate replacement windows.

10 Port Sunlight Local Listed Building Consent Order (LLBCO) Paul Hetherington, Architectural Technologist LLBCO Appendix 3: and Building Surveyor, Wirral Council, is shown Rear Window Types Schedule measuring the 8 light Codes Explained casement windows at 95 Greendale Road. Paul used Material the measurements to make The options are Wood or Metal. the drawings shown below. Your drawings need not Metal windows are not included be computer generated. in the LLBCO. Hand drawn sketches are fine as long as they are Panes of glass clear, to scale, and show key dimensions. The number describes the panes of glass in each sash (for double- Paul’s drawing includes all of hung or Yorkshire sliding sash the required information to windows) or window (for fixed or support a Notice to replace windows under the LLBCO. casement windows).

A: Interior Elevation 8 light casement windows B: Vertical Section C: Glazing bar profile D: Horizontal sections E: Architrave section

E 6-over-6 double-hung window (below left)

B 8 light Yorkshire sliding sash (below right) A

Grouping The number of windows in each group.

Pair and a single D

Five

C

Port Sunlight Local Listed Building Consent Order (LLBCO) 11 Relocation or installation of a satellite dish

In the internal valley of a roof, provided that no part of the dish projects above the ridge and not visible from the front of the property and the highway.

Attached to an outbuilding to the rear of the building, providing that no part of the dish is higher than the boundary wall.

Close to the ground to the rear of the building.

To qualify for consent to install or When a suitable position for the satellite d. A maximum of two cable runs is relocate a satellite dish under the dish has been allocated, then ALL of the permitted at the exterior. LLBCO: following conditions must be satisfied:  Cables should be secretly located. a. The dish must be as small as possible The replacement or new dish must be and in no instance larger than 60  When satellite dishes are located located at the REAR of the property centimetres in any linear dimension. on the roof or by a chimney, where and positioned at a LOW level so as possible cables should be located not to be visible from the highway or b. The colour of the dish shall harmonise within the roof void. any access roads. with the fabric of the building. e. Redundant satellite dish/dishes must Suitable locations are shown in the c. Installation shall not harm or destroy be permanently removed from the image above. character-defining features. No property. screws or brackets should be drilled into the bricks or windows.

Useful Links: This brochure was designed and printed with www.portsunlightvillage.com the support of Historic England through www.portsunlightresidents.com the Heritage Protection Commissions grant A website for the residents and tenants of Port Sunlight. Includes useful information programme. on the care of listed houses and a special section on policy and permissions required for making changes to the listed house of Port Sunlight. Credits Authors: www.wirral.gov.uk/planning-and-building/planning/listed-building-consent Heather Alcock, Conservation Adviser, Wirral Council’s web page on Listed Buildings. You will find guidance documents and Port Sunlight Village Trust links to making a full Listed Building Consent application. Jessica Malpas, Conservation Officer, Wirral Council https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/your-home/ Design: Historic England’s portal for information for owners of listed buildings. The site Graham Wileman and Jo Atter, provides useful and practical information on the care and improvement of listed sites. G+ Studio

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