APPLESHAW and REDENHAM VILLAGE DESIGN STATEMENT CONTENTS Description Page Number(s) Introduction 3 and 4 Parish Map 5 Conservation Area 6 History of the Parish 7 - 10 Appleshaw Today 11 –18 Guidelines – Building Form and Style 18 – 19 Landscape and Open Spaces 20 – 21 Landscape Guidelines 21- 22 Roads and Transport 22 – 23 Roads/Transport Guidelines 23 Commercial Activity 23 - 24 Commercial Guidelines 24 Settlement Boundaries 25 Parish Survey Results 26 - 27 - 2 - INTRODUCTION Why do we need a Village Design Statement? What is a Village Design Statement? The National Planning Policy Framework, (NPPF), effective The Village Design Statement from March 2012, consolidates all describes the Parish and national planning policy into one settlements of Appleshaw and document and includes core Redenham as they are today and planning principles (para.17) that enables local residents to provide planning projects and decisions clear guidance as to the essential taken should (inter alia): characteristics of the villages and * Take account of the surrounding countryside, which different character and they wish to be respected in the roles of different areas, recognising the intrinsic event of future development. character and beauty of Included are recommendations in the countryside, supporting thriving rural respect both of new build projects communities within it and changes to the existing structures, as well as comment * Conserve heritage assets on the surrounding area. * Seek to secure high The Design Statement is a Parish quality design Council sponsored project, Test Valley Borough Council’s undertaken by residents of the (TVBC) Local Development village communities of Appleshaw Framework (LDF) comprises a and Redenham, in conjunction portfolio of documents setting out with the Parish and Borough the vision and strategy by which Councils. the requirements of the NPPF can be implemented locally, whilst Village Design Statements are providing housing development to produced for the use of planners, meet the requirements of a developers, local Councils and growing population. community members themselves. This portfolio includes relevant and detailed Development Plan Documents (DPD) (also called the - 3 - Local Plan) and Supplementary retain views from local rights of Planning Documents (SPD), such way. as Village Design Statements, which have been approved and The Village Design Statement adopted by TVBC. These Design was adopted by Test Valley Statements, once adopted, are Borough Council on 15th April afforded Supplementary Planning 2015 as a Supplementary Document (SPD) status and form Planning Document (SPD). part of the Local Development Framework (LDF). Bibliography: By producing a Village Design Test Valley Borough Council Statement that embraces the Conservation Policy for Appleshaw principles of the National Planning - Policy Framework (NPPF) and the http://www.testvalley.gov.uk/resid Local Development Framework ent/planningandbuildingcontrol/her (LDF), the parish can provide itage/conservationarea/ guidance for consideration on future planning proposals and Test Valley Community Landscape applications. Project: www.testvalley.gov.uk/tvlcp General Guidance Appleshaw Village website – New development should be of a www.appleshaw.org.uk scale in keeping with the character of the villages. http://www.testvalley.gov.uk/resi dent/planningandbuildingcontrol/ Future planning proposals for the heritage/listedbuildings/ area should respect the features of the surrounding landscape and Parish Map contains OS data © Crown Copyright under Licence Number 100054048 2013 EUL. - 4 - The Parish of Appleshaw, including the hamlets of Redenham and Ragged Appleshaw, is located in the northwest corner of Hampshire, close to the Wiltshire border. - 5 - Aerial views of the Parish and surrounding countryside Conservation Area Conservation Areas were first designated under the Civic Amenities Act 1967. The current primary legislation is contained within the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. This defines a conservation area as ‘An area of special architectural or historic interest, the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance’. TVBC as local planning authority has a ‘Duty to ensure that the character or appearance of a conservation area is preserved or enhanced, when considering applications for development. This includes development which affects the setting of a conservation area’. There are 38 Conservation Areas within the Test Valley Borough and parts of Redenham and Appleshaw have such a designation, which was adopted by Test Valley Borough Council on November 6th 1985. The extent of the Conservation Area is illustrated on the Parish Map (see page 5). There is also a significant concentration of Grade II Listed Buildings in the Parish, both within and outside the Conservation Area. Notable examples include Manor House (Appleshaw), Redenham House, Appleshaw House, Mead House and Hill House. - 6 - History Appleshaw Towards the end of the eighteenth century the major landowners and Early settlement sheep farmers based at Appleshaw There is no precise date for the initial were the Edwards at Manor House settlement in Appleshaw; although (then located by the roadside to the signs of prehistoric activity exist, the west of the church) and the Bailys at first firm evidence of permanent Mead House. settlement relates to the Roman period. Villa sites have been Under their leadership, Appleshaw discovered close to Appleshaw and was able to wrest the major part of Redenham where, in the nineteenth the regional sheep sales away from century, the “Appleshaw Hoard”, more established markets at Weyhill now held by the British Museum, was excavated, comprising 32 pewter domestic vessels plus pots of gold and silver coins. It is thought that the villa was abandoned in the fourth century. Appleshaw is not mentioned in the Domesday Book; the first written reference to Appleshaw or Manor House, Appleshaw “Appleshaghe” is in the thirteenth century and the “shaw” is thought to Fair despite legal challenge. This derive from “shaghe”, an early word resulted in 15,000 sheep being sold for a wood at Appleshaw in 1800, their resultant wealth allowing the Bailys to build Seventeenth Century – the Appleshaw House on the proceeds of impact of sheep farming one years wool sales. By 1688 the manor of Appleshaw The 1801 census showed a was in the hands of John Smith, who population of 245 people, which had was granted permission to hold two increased to 559 by 1961 sheep fairs, later increased to three, In 1814, The Enclosure Acts created per annum. new fields on lands leading up to the - 7 - main road and the first road leading after the War. Their estates were to the main A342 was built, replacing broken up into smaller parcels of as the main route to Andover the land, all under new ownership. The gravel track that turns left 300 yards fields created under the auspices of after Cleaver Cottages. the 1814 Enclosure Act retained their boundaries in these sales. Throughout the twentieth century, mechanisation in agriculture reduced the number of parishioners employed on the land and working locally. Transport improvements also enabled job opportunities to be secured outside the area so that, in Appleshaw House the twenty first century, far fewer work in the parish and, for those The Appleshaw settlement grew who do, the type of employment mainly as a self contained farming undertaken is more diverse. community, the nucleus forming along the road which bisects the Parish Church and School village today, with retail properties Appleshaw has been an ecclesiastical including several public houses, a parish since 1866 and is now part of village store, butcher and drapery, the benefice of Appleshaw, Kimpton, all now private dwellings with the Thruxton, Fyfield and Shipton exception of the Walnut Tree Inn. Bellinger. The Parish Church of St Peter in the Wood was built in 1836 The fortunes of the great sheep on the site of an earlier thirteenth farmers of the area waned from the century church. Three years later a 1870’s onwards when the first Methodist Chapel was constructed. refrigerated ships brought meat and Appleshaw St Peter’s Church of wool from Australia, ending an 800 England Primary School (pictured year monopoly on exports of lamb below), a church aided school, and wool to Europe. moved to the current site in 1966 from the original 1870 building, Twentieth Century onwards which housed 65 children. The Edwards family sold up before the First World War, the Bailys just - 8 - The land lying to the east of Ragged Appleshaw and Appleshaw and Mead Houses has been owned since 1440 by the Ewelme Almshouse charitable trust, created by the Duke of Suffolk, who was executed for his religious beliefs under Queen Mary; the Ewelme Trust lands are administered today by solicitors in Appleshaw School Oxford. Ragged Appleshaw Redenham Ragged Appleshaw, once abutting the entrance to Royal hunting Early settlement grounds centred on Ludgershall Redenham was occupied in Roman th Castle, extends north eastwards times, evidenced by the 19 century from Appleshaw village. The word discovery of the remains of a villa, “Ragged” is an elision of medieval farm building, coins, stone tiles at French for king and the anglo-saxon Lambourne's Hill. An archaeological word “gedde” meaning gate.ie Royal dig at Mulberry Cottage (formerly Gate, which was at the beginning of Tamarisk) in 1981-6 found remains the "sopers bottom" valley, so called of a shrine used in the pre Roman because nineteenth century laundries and Roman eras, possible 1st were located there. century building, pottery and pyre debris. The name Redenham may take its name from reeds, which grew along the streams or marshy pools, with the meaning “the low lying meadow by the reeds”. Redenham is not mentioned in the Ragged Appleshaw looking north eastwards Domesday Book but in 1263 property and land was transferred to - 9 - Roger de Redenham and his heirs. The current Redenham House, built Redenham is first termed a manor in in 1774, was part of an estate the sixteenth century.