Village Design Statement BARKING-cum-DARMSDEN Suffolk , r .-- ­ \ J / Introduction T his Village Design How does the Statemen t has been Design research ed and pre pared by Statement work? the residents o f Bar king and D ar msden to describe the The Barking-cum­ visual character and qualities Darmsden Village Design o f the two villages within Statement has been adopted the ir land scape setting. by the District Council as Supplementary Planning The Statement has been Guidance. It will be a guided by a local design team material consideration when in close liaison with Mid dealing with planning Suffo lk Di strict Co uncil. It applications. draws together local knowledge, views and ideas A statutory process about the villages o f Barking already exists for the Parish Council to be consulted on and D arrnsden as they are planning applications. The now and how an y future Parish Council, in The village sign on BarkingTye development sho uld conjunction with the Village The photographs of Barking and cont ribu te in a positive way to Design Group, will have Darmsden which appear the unique character th at has regard to the terms of the throughout this document have design statement and will built up over centuries o f been chosen to illustrate comment on the design growth. positive examples of design in aspects of applications Change can occur in many terms of scale and proportions, accordingingly. ways, no t o nly by large scale colour, texture, materials, planting and so on. commercial or ho using The Statement also deve lopment s, but also by contains recommendations small incremental changes to that are aimed at all those features such as garden fences small-scale changes that and walls, doo rs, windo ws, could have a significant roofs and even bv the choice impact on the appearance of the villages but do not, in o f trees and sh ru bs planted in themselves, need planning gardens and hedges. An ill permission. They are tho ught out decision co uld included in order to present change the appearanc e o f a a complete picture of the house, a view o r an ope n Parish and everyone space forever or un til future involved in village life is change takes place. asked to think about them This Statem ent is before making any decisions about changing the therefore relevant to: appearance of their property. • every householder and property owner in the Contents Parish • the Local Planning Introduction Authority and its officers • the provider s of local Historical background 2 services and facilities • developers, builders, Landscape, character and the architects, engineers and natural environment 4 designers The built environment 6 • the Parish Council and other local community The economy 10 groups. Highways 12 Historical background Shaping o f th e present mano r was sold by the Crown . pr essure o n unregulated areas settlement perhaps began to Francis N eed ham. I t led to ma ny commons being with the es tablishment o f a subseq uen tly pa ssed int o the completely ab so rbed, in so me Ro man Road, the route of hands o f Francis Theobald, cases th e name became the which can still be detected the Rev Joseph G ascoigne, only legac y. Fo rtu nately for along the no rtherly end o f Joh n Crowley and th en the Barking, approximately 30 Barking Tye. Scattered Earl o f Ashburnham (1756). acres o f fine o pen spa ce still settlements, developed d uring The ambitions of Sir Francis remain and are set to be Saxon times, bearing the Needham appear to have lain preserved as a lasting amenity names 'B erica's Peop le' and with the we aving settlement within the settlement. Barking 'Der rnodesaduna giving rise in the corner o f the pari sh Tye would have derived its to presen t da y names. w here he es ta blishe d a identity as an un encl osed E stablishment o f the two ma rket, based on the Barking p oo r qu ality gra zing area of ch urches wou ld no doubt Fair and to which of course the Man or of Barking. T he have provided community he gave his name. N eedham need fo r g razing diminished and ident ity that continues up Market, being on a line o f and the value o f o pe n spaces to the present da y. communication, saw increase d was increas ingly rec ogn ised . develo pmen t, leaving Barki ng T he Tye was regi stered as orman times and D arrnsd en in the wings. commo n under the The D o mesday Boo k Co m mo ns Registration Ac t of recorded Barki ng with 60 The Victorian 1965 and in 1969 byelaws inhabitants (ad ult males) and parish we re passed to regulate its St. Mary's Church with 83 The Local Government management and use. The six acres of free land. Barking Act 1888 created the civil remaining co m moner s' rig hts Manor belo nged to the Abbot pari sh o f Ba rking cu m are rec orded and recogni sed of St.'E theld reda and D arrnsden. T his act and bu t are no longer exercised . ex tensive productive subseq uent local gove rn ment From about 190 9, East woodland s Scattered settlements, developed legislation Suffolk Co un ty Council incl uding during Saxon times, bearing the established pro mo ted tenant farming an d Boney th e purchased three 'Cou nty names 'Berica's People' and (Bo nny) fra mework farms' within the Parish Wood wer e 'Dermodesaduna' gave for pub lic namely Top, Middle and menti o ned . rise to the present day names. health an d Lower Fa rm s, two o f which Unde r the Normans, Barking utili ties.T his manifested itself st ill remain as tenant ed Mano r was vested in the in Barking and incidentally in working farms. Bisho pric o f E ly villages throughout the (subse q uen tly pro viding coun try by the construction ccess sus te na nce or income fo r the of local autho rity hou sing, a It seem s likely th at access Church until 1611 ). Two o f 'Board' school (closed in to the villages between the mano rial farms were also 1952, to become a much used Ro man tim es and the req uired to provide vic tuals to village hall), piped water, imp rov ement of the present the religio us o rder at E ly. electricity and in 1981, mai ns road fro m the Gipping Valley It see ms that Barking was drainage. The To wn and was at bes t difficult, per hap s largely spared the ravages o f Country Planning Act 1947 leavin g Barking and 'Black D eath ' due to the saw the first active public D ar rnsden ra ther iso lated qu arantine still remem ber ed co nt rol o f development. with em ployment mainly lo cal in the name 'C hai nhouse' at and ag ricultural. The railway Needham Market one and a The Tye cam e to N eedham Market in half miles away. In year s gone by, Barking 1846 and later Barking was Tye was a relatively large inclu ded o n a Squirrel's bu s The Reformation common. Over the years, route, however until th e o nse t D uring the refo r mation, pa rts o f the Tye became of Wo dd War II, with the the Ch urch was relieved o f absorbed in to surro unding strategic need fo r improved Barking M anor. In 16 11, the properti es. T his kin d o f 2 acces s to Wattisham Airfi eld, problem. Many people have the road remained acc ess to one or more cars D espite the linear nature o f unmetalled. altho ugh, in so me instances, Barking,u there is a srronzb Perhaps the change in use residents' particular sense o f identi ty and of the road and the motor car circumstanc es and the paucity community, and a positive have given rise to the greates t of public transport dict ates wish not only to preser ve single change in village Life that the y mo ve away fro m the those features of the rur al env ironment. th rough out its long histor y. settlement which are thou bzht wort hw hile but also to c i em brace beneficial change. h n s e Altho ugh Bark.ing-cum­ Of particular present day D armsden remains a united significance is the fact that Parish, the two set tlemen ts Barking Tye has been retain their individuality and registered unde r the special characteristics. Countryside Premium D espite the significant Scheme thu s continuing the di fferences and no direct pre servation and Linking road, there is em pa thy, imp ro vem ent o f the o pe n mutual concern and not space that is indivisible from in frequ ent Barki ng. "Although Barking-cum­ The wartime soci al Darmsden remains a united contact. Watti sham Parish , the two settlements retain Barking Airfield is now now has their individuality and special an Important around characteristics." Army 150 dwellings and a Helic opter population o f so me 410, Base. Apart from the obviou s D armsden 26 and 50 benefit of providin g much respectively.