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DENTON Conservation Area Character Appraisal DENTON Conservation Area Character Appraisal Approved 9 December 2009 Denton Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved 9 December 2009 p. 29 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 ............................................................................... 10 7. Character area analysis ............................................................................................. 14 Map 1: Historic development ........................................................................................... 17 Map 2: Conservation Area boundary .............................................................................. 18 Map 3: Analysis & concepts ............................................................................................. 19 Map 4: Landscape analysis ............................................................................................. 20 Appendix A: 1 Management strategy .................................................................................................. 21 2 Monitoring & review ..................................................................................................... 21 3 Maintaining quality ...................................................................................................... 21 4 Conservation Area boundary review ........................................................................... 21 5 The management of change ....................................................................................... 22 6 Opportunities for enhancement .................................................................................. 22 Checklist to manage change ........................................................................................ 26 Appendix B: Public consultation ..................................................................................... 27 Appendix C: Further reading .......................................................................................... 28 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. 30 Denton Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved 9 December 2009 1 Introduction 1.1 Conservation Area Appraisals aim to define devise a strategy to protect these qualities. and open spaces. Having identified those and analyse the special interest which The Appraisal will help us understand special qualities, the Appraisal will examine constitutes the character and appearance the impact that development proposals whether opportunities exist to protect and of a place. It is these qualities which would have on the Conservation Area and enhance its character. warrant the designation of a Conservation whether these are acceptable and/ Area. This Appraisal is approved by or appropriate. 1.6 By identifying what makes Denton special Harrogate Borough Council and forms an or distinctive it is suggested that any future “evidence base” for the Local Development 1.4 The assessment of the area’s special change, whether to individual buildings, Framework (LDF). Consequently, it is a architectural or historic interest is based building groups or the village as a whole, material consideration when determining on a careful and objective analysis of will be based on this understanding of applications for development, considering the area, using a method of analysis the past and the present character of the planning appeals or proposing works recommended by English Heritage. settlement. In this way, we can manage for the preservation or enhancement of Various qualities are looked at including: future change to ensure it makes a posi- the area. It also forms the basis for a historical development, building materials, tive contribution towards preserving or subsequent Management Strategy, which and relationships between buildings enhancing its special character. will contain proposals and policies for and open spaces. Appraisals aim to be the conservation and enhancement comprehensive but the omission of any of the area. particular building, feature or space should not be taken to imply that it 1.2 The Appraisal provides information and is of no interest. guidance to those wishing to carry out works in the Conservation Area whether 1.5 Denton Conservation Area was first or not they require planning approval. designated in 1994 and, following So, it is a useful source of information for consultation on this Appraisal, was property owners, agents, applicants and amended on 9 December 2009. This members of the public who live or work Appraisal aims to describe Denton as it in Denton. is today and identify the special character and distinctiveness of its setting, buildings 1.3 The main function of the Conservation Area Appraisal is to ensure that any works in the Conservation Area have regard to the special qualities of the area and to Denton Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved 9 December 2009 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 Denton is in the Nidderdale Area of interest of Denton; 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 of preservation to aid ities to define the elements that make 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 the Conservation Area character appraisals. Appraisal process and needs to be app- The consideration of proposals in the roached in a pro-active and innovative context of the description contained in way. Community involvement helps to these appraisals will be an important bring valuable public understanding and factor in deciding whether a proposal has ‘ownership’ to proposals for the area. A an adverse affect on the character and report included in the Appendix details appearance of a Conservation Area and, how the local community has been therefore, whether it is contrary to saved involved and the contribution it has Local Plan Policy HD3 (which is the key made to this Appraisal. policy for the control of development in p. 2 Denton Conservation Area Character Appraisal - Approved 9 December 2009 3 Historic development & archaeology 3.1 The name Denton is Anglo-Saxon in owned the Manors of Walton near Thorp 3.5 Sometime after 1748 Samuel Ibbetson origin and means farmstead (‘ton’) in the Arch and Steeton near Tadcaster. Their died and the Denton Estate passed to valley (‘den’). The site of the village is marriage in 1515 meant Sir William Fairfax his nephew Sir James Ibbetson who set well suited to agriculture, on
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