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Beamish Museum, Regional Centre, Beamish Planning Services COMMITTEE REPORT APPLICATION DETAILS APPLICATION NO: DM/16/00142/FPA Provision of use class D1 (Non-Residential Institutions) museum pieces including: (i) 1950s Town comprising road, lighting, drainage, overhead trolley bus cables, cinema, terrace of single house and 3 shops, 8 semi- detached and terraced housing units, terrace of 4 aged miners homes, 3 shop units, bus shelter, gents urinal, lock-up garages, bowls pavilion and bowling green, biomass building, community centre and recreation ground. (Ancillary uses including hot food café, fish and chip shop, elderly persons health and wellbeing day FULL APPLICATION DESCRIPTION: centre and school group education rooms); (ii) 1820s Area comprising coaching inn, windmill, pottery, blacksmiths, candle house, lime kiln, heather thatched cottage, biomass building and drainage (Ancillary uses within coaching inn include overnight accommodation comprising 17 guest bedrooms, guest accommodation cottage and 3 accessible guest accommodation cottages, licensed premises serving food and drink); (iii) Two storey stone upland farm house, barns and drainage; (iv) Transport shed and associated infrastructure NAME OF APPLICANT: Mr R Evan - Beamish Museum Beamish Museum, Regional Centre, Beamish, Stanley, ADDRESS: DH9 0RG ELECTORAL DIVISION: Pelton Nick Graham, Planning Officer CASE OFFICER: 03000 264 960, [email protected] DESCRIPTION OF THE SITE AND PROPOSALS The Site 1. The North of England Open Air Museum at Beamish is situated to the north of the A693, midway between the towns of Chester-le-Street and Stanley and close to the village of Beamish. The site is large, and well screened, sitting in a natural 'bowl' in the landscape, with limited views from outside the Museum. The Museum is one of North East England's most popular and important tourist attractions and the site has developed over time with various additions, including extensions to the boundary of the Museum itself. 2. The majority of the site falls within the former Chester-le-Street District boundary, although part of the site falls within the former Derwentside District boundary, however it is noted none of the proposed works are within the former Derwentside District area. The Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council area is positioned a short distance away to the north east, whilst part of the site falls within the Forgebank Woods Local Wildlife Site and the Beamish / Causey Arch Area of High Landscape Value. Various Public Rights of Way traverse across the site whilst several Listed Buildings are located within the site, the most prominent of which being the Grade II Listed Pockerley Farmhouse, and the Grade II* Listed Pele Tower. The Proposal 3. The proposal under consideration relates to four distinct areas. Firstly the erection of a 1950s town to the north of the site, close to the existing 1910s town. As part of this area, a cinema, bowling green, community centre, as well as associated residential and commercial buildings are proposed. Secondly the erection of buildings within the 1820s ‘Georgian North’ area to the south east of the site, including a Coaching Inn where visitors and non-visitors would be able to stay overnight on site, as well as a restaurant/pub serving traditional food and drink, a ‘post mill’, lime kiln and various other buildings indicative of the period. Thirdly, an upland farm indicative of a style in Weardale is proposed to the centre of the site, with associated boundary treatments. Finally, the erection of a transport shed designed to house buses and trolley buses. Associated infrastructure is also proposed around the site, including overhead power lines for trolley buses, two biomass boilers in the 1950s and 1820s areas respectively, and two sewage treatment works. The primary objective of the proposal is to introduce new areas and eras to the Museum site which would in turn increase visitor numbers to the attraction, maintaining the Museum’s position as one of the County’s, and region’s, premier tourist attractions, whilst acting as a heritage gateway to life in historic North East England. 4. The application is reported to the County Planning Committee because it is major development with a site area greater than 2 hectares. PLANNING HISTORY 5. The site has been a Museum since opening in 1970, with various additions throughout this period, the most recent of which being a stable block in the Colliery village (ref. 2/13/00025/FUL), a Georgian-style building in the 1910s town (ref. 2/14/00002/FUL), and the relocation of the seasonal ice rink to the fairground area (ref. DM/15/02241/FPA). PLANNING POLICY NATIONAL POLICY 6. The Government has consolidated all planning policy statements, guidance notes and many circulars into a single policy statement, the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), although the majority of supporting Annexes to the planning policy statements are retained. The overriding message is that new development that is sustainable should go ahead without delay. It defines the role of planning in achieving sustainable development under three topic headings – economic, social and environmental, each mutually dependant. 7. The presumption in favour of sustainable development set out in the NPPF requires local planning authorities to approach development management decisions positively, utilising twelve ‘core planning principles’. The following elements of the NPPF are considered relevant to this proposal. 8. NPPF Part 1 – Building a Strong, Competitive Economy – The Government is committed to securing economic growth in order to create jobs and prosperity and to ensuring that the planning system does everything it can to support sustainable economic growth. Planning should operate to encourage and not act as an impediment to sustainable growth. Therefore significant weight should be placed on the need to support economic growth through the planning system. Decisions should support existing business sectors, taking account of whether they are expanding or contracting. 9. NPPF Part 3 – Supporting a Rural Economy – Requires planning policies to support economic growth in rural areas in order to create jobs and prosperity by taking a positive approach to sustainable new development, supporting all types of business and enterprise, promoting development and diversification of agricultural and rural business and supporting tourism and leisure activities that benefit rural businesses, communities and visitors whilst respecting the character of the countryside. 10.NPPF Part 4 – Promoting Sustainable Transport – States that the transport system needs to be balanced in favour of sustainable transport modes, giving people a real choice about how they travel. It is recognised that different policies and measures will be required in different communities and opportunities to maximize sustainable transport solutions which will vary from urban to rural areas. Encouragement should be given to solutions which support reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and reduce congestion. 11.NPPF Part 7 – Requiring Good Design – The Government attaches great importance to the design of the built environment, with good design a key aspect of sustainable development, indivisible from good planning. Planning policies and decisions must aim to ensure developments; function well and add to the overall quality of an area over the lifetime of the development, establish a strong sense of place, create and sustain an appropriate mix of uses, respond to local character and history, create safe and accessible environments and be visually attractive. 12.NPPF Part 8 – Promoting Healthy Communities – Recognises the part the planning system can play in facilitating social interaction and creating healthy and inclusive communities. Access to high quality open spaces and opportunities for sport and recreation can make an important contribution to the health and well-being of communities. 13.NPPF Part 10 - Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change, Flooding and Coastal Change – Planning plays a key role in helping shape places to secure radical reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, minimising vulnerability and providing resilience to the impacts of climate change, and supporting the delivery of renewable and low carbon energy. 14.NPPF Part 11 – Conserving and Enhancing the Natural Environment – The planning system should contribute to, and enhance the natural environment by; protecting and enhancing valued landscapes, recognizing the benefits of ecosystem services, minimising impacts on biodiversity and providing net gains in biodiversity where possible, preventing new and existing development being put at risk from unacceptable levels of soil, air, water or noise pollution or land instability, and remediating contaminated and unstable land. 15.NPPF Part 12 – Conserving and Enhancing the Historic Environment – In determining applications LPAs should take account of; the desirability of sustaining and enhancing the significance of the heritage asset, the positive contribution conservation of heritage assets can make to sustainable communities and economic viability, and the desirability of new development making a positive contribution to local character. 16.In accordance with paragraph 215 of the National Planning Policy Framework, the weight to be attached to relevant saved local plan policy will depend upon the degree of consistency with the NPPF. The greater the consistency, the greater the weight. The relevance of this issue is discussed, where appropriate, in the assessment section
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