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LOFTHOUSE Conservation Area Character Appraisal LOFTHOUSE Conservation Area Character Appraisal Approved 24 March 2010 Lofthouse Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved March 2010 p. 31 Contents Page 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 Objectives ........................................................................................................................ 2 2. Planning policy framework ............................................................................................ 2 3 Historic development & archaeology ............................................................................. 3 4 Location & landscape setting ........................................................................................ 5 5. Landscape character .................................................................................................... 6 6. The form & character of buildings ................................................................................11 7. Character area analysis ............................................................................................. 16 Map 1: Historic development ........................................................................................... 20 Map 2: Conservation Area boundary .............................................................................. 21 Map 3: Analysis & concepts ............................................................................................. 22 Map 4: Landscape analysis ............................................................................................. 23 Appendix A: 1 Management strategy .................................................................................................. 24 2 Monitoring & review ..................................................................................................... 24 3 Maintaining quality ...................................................................................................... 24 4 Conservation Area boundary review ........................................................................... 24 5 The management of change ....................................................................................... 25 6 Opportunities for enhancement .................................................................................. 25 Checklist to manage change ........................................................................................ 29 Appendix B: Public consultation ..................................................................................... 30 Appendix C: Further reading .......................................................................................... 30 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. 32 Lofthouse Conservation Area Character Appraisal - approved 24 March 2010 1 Introduction 1.1 Conservation Area Appraisals aim to the impact that development proposals 1.6 By identifying what makes Lofthouse define and analyse the special interest would have on the Conservation Area special or distinctive it is suggested which constitutes the character and and whether these are acceptable and/or that any future change, whether to appearance of a place. It is these quali- appropriate. individual buildings, building groups or the ties which warrant the designation of a village as a whole, will be based on this Conservation Area. This Appraisal was 1.4 The assessment of the area’s special understanding of the past and the present approved by the Cabinet Member for architectural or historic interest is based character of the settlement. In this way, Planning and Transport and forms an on a careful and objective analysis of we can manage future change to ensure “evidence base” for the Local Development the area, using a method of analysis it makes a positive contribution towards Framework (LDF). Consequently, it is a recommended by English Heritage. preserving or enhancing its special material consideration when determining Various qualities are looked at including: character. applications for development, considering historical development, building materials, planning appeals or proposing works and relationships between buildings for the preservation or enhancement of and open spaces. Appraisals aim to be the area. It also forms the basis for a comprehensive but the omission of any subsequent Management Strategy, which particular building, feature or space will contain proposals and policies for should not be taken to imply that the conservation and enhancement it is of no interest. of the area. 1.5 Lofthouse Conservation Area was 1.2 The Appraisal provides information and originally designated in 1994. Following guidance to those wishing to carry out public consultation on the draft of this works in the Conservation Area whether Appraisal, the boundary was amended or not they require planning approval. further on 24 March 2010. This Appraisal So, it is a useful source of information for aims to describe Lofthouse as it is today Entrance to village from Lofthouse Moor. property owners, agents, applicants and and identify the special character and members of the public who live or work distinctiveness of its setting, buildings and in Lofthouse. open spaces. Having identified those special qualities, the Appraisal will examine 1.3 The main function of the Conservation whether opportunities exist to protect and Area Appraisal is to ensure that any works enhance its character. in the Conservation Area have regard to the special qualities of the area and to devise a strategy to protect these qualities. The Appraisal will help us understand Lofthouse Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved March 2010 p. 1 2 Planning policy framework Objectives 2.1 Local authorities have a duty to designate conservation areas). The scope of Policy The principal objectives of the “areas of special architectural or historic HD3 also covers development proposals Appraisal are: interest, the character or appearance outside a Conservation Area which would of which it is desirable to preserve or affect its setting or views into or out of the to define and record the enhance” as conservation areas under Conservation Area. special character and section 69 of the Planning (Listed 2.4 Lofthouse is in the Nidderdale Area of interest of Lofthouse; Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. The same Act also requires local Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). In to raise public awareness planning authorities to periodically review 1994, in recognition of the quality of its of the aims and objectives conservation areas. landscape the Countryside Commission of the Conservation Area designated the Nidderdale AONB. Saved 2.2 Government guidance on all development Policy C1 from the Harrogate District Local designation and stimulate affecting conservation areas is set out Plan, provides that priority will be given their involvement in the in Planning Policy Guidance Note 15: to the conservation of the natural beauty protection of its character; Planning and the Historic Environment of the landscape and any development to identify what is worthy (PPG15). PPG 15 advises local author- should reflect the local distinctiveness of preservation to aid ities to define the elements that make of the area. the special character or appearance of understanding; conservation areas in order to provide 2.5 The Nidderdale AONB Management to assess the action that a sound basis on which to develop Plan (2009-14) is a spatial strategy that may be necessary to local planning policies, preservation or addresses the need to manage change. The NIdderdale AONB Heritage Strategy, safeguard this special enhancement strategies and to make development control decisions. approved April 2009, identifies the object- interest ives, policies and actions required for the to identify opportunities 2.3 In determining planning applications sustainable management of heritage for enhancement. for development within conservation in the AONB. areas and applications for Conservation Area consent, the Council will give 2.6 Involving the community and raising considerable weight to the content of public awareness is an integral part of Conservation Area character appraisals. the Conservation Area Appraisal process The consideration of proposals in the and needs to be approached in a pro- context of the descrip-tion contained in active and innovative way. Community these appraisals will be an important involvement helps to bring valuable factor in deciding whether a proposal has public understanding and ‘ownership’ to an adverse affect on the character and proposals for the area. A report included appearance of a Conservation Area and, in the Appendix details how the local therefore, whether it is contrary to saved community has been involved and the Local Plan Policy HD3 (which is the key contribution it has made to this Appraisal. policy for the control of development in p. 2 Lofthouse Conservation Area Character Appraisal - approved 24 March 2010 3 Historic development & archaeology 3.1 The first building in Lofthouse was a village suggests that there were as many 3.4 By the mid-nineteenth century the village’s grange established on the site of Holme as six or seven farms clustered population and importance was such Farm by Fountains
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