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Cleeve Prior Conservation Area Adoption Statement The Cleeve Prior Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan was adopted by Wychavon District Council as a document for planning purposes on 16th September 2008. Minute 54 of the Executive Board meeting of 16th September 2008 refers. Wychavon District Council Planning Services Civic Centre Queen Elizabeth Drive Pershore Worcestershire WR10 1PT Tel. 01386 565000 www.wychavon.gov.uk Contents Part 1 Appraisal 1 Introduction p1 What is this Appraisal for? p1 Planning Policy Framework p1 2 Summary of special interest p2 3 Assessing special interest p2 Location & Landscape Setting p2 Historical Development & Archaeology p4 Plan Form p8 Spaces p9 Key Views & Vistas p11 4 Character analysis p11 General p11 Buildings p12 Materials p16 Local Details p17 Boundaries p18 Natural Environment p18 Enhancement Opportunities p20 Threats p20 5 Issues p21 NOTE p21 Sources p22 Further Information p22 Appraisal Map p23 Part 2. Management Proposals p24 1 Introduction p24 What are these Management Proposals for? p24 2 Management Proposals p24 3 Article 4(2) Directions p26 Statement of Community Involvement p27 What is this appraisal for? 1. Introduction • Policy ENV12 of the Wychavon District Local What is this Appraisal for? Plan (June 2006) which is intended to ensure that development preserves or enhances the 1.1 character or appearance of conservation areas. A conservation area is an area of special architectural or historic interest, usually the historic 1.5 part of a town or village, where we wish to Broadly, these policies seek to ensure that the preserve or enhance its character or appearance. conservation area is preserved by: Part of Cleeve Prior is a conservation area. Refusing permission for: 1.2 • the demolition of any building or structure if its Under Section 72 of the Planning (Listed Buildings loss would damage its character or appearance and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 we must pay • the extension or alteration of a building where special attention to the desirability of preserving or the change would damage its character or enhancing the character or appearance of the appearance conservation area. This appraisal identifies the • development which would be harmful to its special interest and character of the Cleeve Prior setting or character or appearance Conservation Area, and provides guidance on • development which would adversely affect or how the preservation or enhancement of its result in the loss of historic plots, layouts and character or appearance can be achieved. The street pattern, important views, open spaces, first part of the appraisal identifies its special tree cover or boundary features within the interest and character. The second part sets out conservation area management proposals for addressing the issues • signage which would be harmful to the identified in the appraisal. character or appearance of the conservation area 1.3 The Cleeve Prior Conservation Area was and requiring new development to: designated in November 1969 and revised in January 1983. The boundary was reviewed in • respect its context in design, including scale, 2008 during the preparation of this appraisal. The form, proportion and detailing current conservation area boundary is shown in • Use materials in accordance with those the appraisal. traditionally used in that particular part of the conservation area, and maintain a similar mix Planning Policy Framework • be located on their sites in a similar way to the 1.4 general pattern of building in that part of the This appraisal should be read in conjunction with conservation area the national, regional and the local planning policy • Boundary walls, railings and hedges should be framework, particularly: incorporated in the development in a similar way to those already in existence in that part of the • Planning Policy Guidance Note 15 - Planning conservation area, and these should use similar and the Historic Environment (PPG15) which materials and detailing, or species, and sets out Government policy on the protection of • Shop signs to respect the character of the conservation areas and other elements of the buildings and quality of the historic environment historic environment; in their siting, size, materials and design. • Policy QE5 of The West Midlands Regional 1.6 Spatial Strategy and Policies CTC19 and policy In accordance with the new planning system CTC20 of the adopted Worcestershire County introduced in 2004 we are preparing a Local Structure Plan 1996-2011, which seek to protect Development Framework. This will contain and enhance conservation areas; and conservation area policies that will supersede the 1 Cleeve Prior Conservation Area Structure and Local Plan from 2009. buildings 1.7 The survival of the historic form and identity This appraisal supplements Structure Plan and of the village, evident in buildings, plots and Local Plan Policies CTC19, CTC20 and ENV12. village layout 2 Summary of special interest The number and quality of historic buildings 2.1 The survival of historic fabric and detailing Cleeve Prior has considerable architectural and historic interest, with more than a thousand years The number of farm buildings of settlement history and a wealth of historic buildings, ranging from manor house to dovecote. The consistent use of locally quarried blue The use of local blue lias stone and local detailing lias stone in buildings and boundary walls through all building types and periods gives the throughout village a strong character and local identity. Its early origins as a farming community, within a The significant contribution of the natural wider area of Saxon and Medieval settlement environment in trees, gardens, open spaces activity, is still evident in its buildings, layout and in and hedges the archaeology and hedge patterns of surrounding fields. A strong historic and visual connection with its agricultural setting 2.2 The continuing significance of agriculture The conservation area boundary is drawn to throughout Cleeve Prior's development is clearly reflect this special interest. illustrated in the presence of numerous farm buildings and farmhouses from the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. These are present throughout the village and are a significant 3 Assessing special interest element of its character and special interest. Location & Landscape Setting 2.3 The village has seen only modest new Location development and has been little spoiled, retaining 3.1 much of its historic plan, historic buildings and Cleeve Prior is located 5 miles to the north-east of fabric and open spaces, and in the absence of Evesham, close to the east bank of the River newer development at its periphery, has Avon, one of a string of villages situated along the maintained a strong visual and historic connection river in the Vale of Evesham. with its agricultural hinterland. The special interest of Cleeve Prior that Landscape Setting justifies its designation as a conservation 3.2 area includes: The village sits above the Avon floodplain on the long low ridge of Cleeve Hill, in an open and Its long history, still evident in the layout of gently undulating landscape of a grid of fields of the village, its buildings, setting and in visible arable and grassland defined by hedges. archaeological remains The survival of a clear demonstration of the historic social hierarchy within the village, evident in the size, design and siting of 2 Cleeve Prior Conservation Area 3.3 There are several clues in its landscape setting to its history. Areas of ridge and furrow (remnants of the medieval open field system) are overlaid by patterns of small linear fields from early enclosure, and larger regular shaped fields from 18th century enclosure, indicating a long history of farming activity. Old orchards and a radiating network of narrow lanes and tracks are other surviving clues of an historic settlement. 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