BISHOP MONKTON Conservation Area Character Appraisal
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BISHOP MONKTON Conservation Area Character Appraisal Approved 15 October 2008 Bishop Monkton Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved 15 October 2008 p. 25 Contents Page 1. Introduction ................................................................................................................... 1 Objectives ................................................................................................................... 2 2. Planning policy context ................................................................................................. 2 3. Historic development & archaeology ............................................................................. 3 4. Location & setting ......................................................................................................... 4 5. Landscape character .................................................................................................... 5 6. Form & character of buildings ....................................................................................... 8 7. Character area analysis .............................................................................................. 11 Map 1: Historic development ............................................................................................ 14 Map 2: Conservation Area boundary (with suggested extensions) .................................... 15 Map 3: Analysis & concepts ............................................................................................ 16 Map 4: Landscape character analysis ............................................................................. 17 Appendix A: 1. Management strategy ................................................................................................. 18 2. Monitoring & review ..................................................................................................... 18 3. Maintaining quality ...................................................................................................... 18 4. Conservation Area boundary review ............................................................................. 18 5. The management of change ........................................................................................ 19 6. Opportunities for enhancement ................................................................................... 19 Checklist ......................................................................................................................... 23 Appendix B: Public consultation .................................................................................... 24 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. 26 Bishop Monkton Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved 15 October 2008 1. Introduction 1.1 Conservation Area Appraisals aim to define 1.3 The main function of the Conservation 1.6 Bishop Monkton Conservation Area was and analyse the special interest which Area Appraisal is to ensure that any works designated on 9 July 1970 and following a constitutes the character and appearance in the Conservation Area have regard to review the boundary was amended on 24 of a place. It is these qualities which the special qualities of the area and to November 1994. Following consultation, it warrant the designation of a Conservation devise a strategy to protect these qualities. was amended further on 15 October 2008. Area. This Appraisal has been adopted The Appraisal will help us understand by Harrogate Borough Council and the impact that development proposals 1.7 This Appraisal aims to describe Bishop forms an evidence base for the Local would have on the Conservation Area and Monkton as it is today and identify the Development Framework (LDF). It is, whether a proposal would be acceptable special character and distinctiveness of therefore, a material consideration when or appropriate. its setting, buildings and open spaces. determining applications for development, Having identifi ed those special qualities, defending appeals or proposing works 1.4 The assessment of the area’s special the Appraisal will examine whether for the preservation or enhancement of architectural or historic interest is based opportunities exist to protect and the area. It can also form the basis for a on a careful and objective analysis enhance its character. of the area, as recommended by subsequent Management Strategy, which 1.8 By identifying what makes Bishop Monkton will contain issues, proposals and policies English Heritage in their “Guidance on Conservation Area Appraisals”. special or distinctive, it is suggested that for the conservation and enhancement of any future change, whether to individual the area. 1.5 Various qualities are looked at including: buildings, building groups or the village 1.2 The Appraisal will provide information and historical development, building materials, as a whole, will be based upon this guidance to those wishing to carry out and relationships between built and understanding of the past and present works in the Conservation Area that do open spaces. The Appraisal aims to character of the village. In this way, we not necessarily require planning approval. be comprehensive but the omission of can manage future change to ensure It will therefore be a useful source of any particular building, feature or space that it makes a positive contribution information for property owners, agents, should not be taken to imply that it is of no towards preserving or enhancing its applicants and members of the public interest. special character. who live or work in the village of Bishop Monkton. Bishop Monkton Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved 15 October 2008 p. 1 2. Planning policy context Objectives 2.1 Local authorities have a duty to designate an important factor in deciding whether The principal objectives of the ‘areas of special architectural or historic a proposal has an adverse effect on Appraisal are: interest, the character or appearance the character and appearance of the of which it is desirable to preserve or Conservation Area, and therefore, whether zto defi ne and record enhance’ as conservation areas under it is contrary to saved Local Plan Policy the special character Section 69 of the Planning (Listed HD3, which is the key policy for the and interest of Bishop Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act control of development in conservation Monkton; 1990. The same Act also requires local areas. The scope of Policy HD3 also planning authorities to periodically covers development proposals outside review conservation areas. conservation areas which would affect its zto raise public setting or views into or out of the area. awareness of the aims 2.2 Government guidance on all development and objectives of the affecting conservation areas is set out 2.4 Involving the community and raising Conservation Area in Planning Policy Guidance Note 15: public awareness is an integral part of designation and stimulate Planning and the Historic Environment the appraisal process and needs to be (PPG15). PPG 15 advises local approached in a pro-active and innovative their involvement in the authorities to defi ne the elements that way. Community involvement helps protection of its character; make the special character or appearance to bring valuable public understanding of conservation areas in order to provide and ‘ownership’ to proposals for the zto identify what is worthy a sound basis on which to develop area. Appendix B details how the local of preservation to aid local planning policies, preservation or community has been involved and the understanding;· enhancement strategies and to make contribution it has made to this Appraisal. development control decisions. zto assess the action that 2.3 In determining planning applications for may be necessary to development within conservation areas safeguard this special and applications for conservation area interest; consent, the Council will give considerable weight to the content of conservation area zto identify opportunities character appraisals. The consideration of for enhancement. proposals in the context of the description contained in these appraisals will be p. 2 Bishop Monkton Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved 15 October 2008 3. Historic development & archaeology 3.1 The name Bishop Monkton derives from the by the Mechanics Institute (1859), 3.4 The village was originally based on Domesday Book (“Monechetune”) meaning somewhat unusual within such a small agriculture but has now become a the “Tun of the monks”. The exact reason settlement. The clock tower, added later, dormitory village. Substantial areas of for the name is not apparent but places gives prominence to this small building land, mainly to the south and west of the called Monkton must once have belonged which offered educational facilities and village core and alongside the beck, have to (or been associated with) a monastery. a meeting place including a library, the been developed with housing during the last In this case, it was to the Archbishop of provision of newspapers, a wide ranging 40 years or so. Despite Bishop Monkton’s York, though there are references to the lecture programme and concerts. population (775 in 2001), there is no major monastic community of Ripon in AD 661. local employer so most